Stoppa sabbet

'Stop the sabotage') was a Swedish campaign against payphone vandalism, run by the state telecom agency Televerket, starting in 1980.

[1] The campaign especially targeted preadolescent children, including an annual drawing competition for 6th graders and various other outreach efforts and sponsorships.

[3] A new drawing competition centered around the campaign was announced in 1980, with sixth-grade classes across Sweden being asked to send in anti-vandalism posters.

[10] By 1985 Televerket had announced the ability for employees in Umeå to 'adopt' a payphone as part of the campaign, including cleaning up spills and littering in the booths as well as monitoring for vandalism and damage.

[13][14] The sponsorship arrangement was an inspiration for a similar collaboration campaign by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik with hockey organisations to prevent vandalism and graffiti on the public transit system.

[17] Televerket stated to Dagens Nyheter in 1991 that vandalism had continued increasing throughout the 1980s but that the trend had begun to shift, crediting the campaign.

Stoppa sabbet poster next to a payphone in Hemsö fortress