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.