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Park visitors in Walkersville, MD are being advised to pack a little extra something along with their standard picnic fare – toilet paper.

Vandals set light to a men’s bathroom in Walkersville Community Park last week using the paper products on hand. As a result, Town Manager Gloria Long Rollins announced all paper products were being removed from the town’s park restrooms on Monday.

She explained that the measure is part of an effort to combat vandalism, graffiti and drug use in the parks. Paper towels are being replaced with hand dryers, and visitors will need to bring along their own toilet paper.

This information comes hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that toilet paper is being rationed at a Kansas prison. The Hutchinson Correctional Facility has recently started enforcing a little-known regulation that limits inmates to a single roll of toilet paper at a time.

Inmates are up in arms about the restriction, and some have gone so far as to write the local paper voicing their concern on hygiene grounds. As inmate Carl Kennedy wrote, “…in here it’s part of a safeguard for widespread infections. We use it to blow our noses, clean sinks, toilets and tables.”

Officials at the facility say inmates won’t go without bogroll, and need only present an empty roll to get a new one. Also, prison staff estimate that enforcing their one-roll-at-a-go policy will save a tidy $600 each month.

All of which begs the question: who’s shorting Charmin shares?