As those who read my blog entry back in early December will remember, I discovered a couple of cottagers in one of the admin buildings at work. My blog entry and a few of the comments from members took a fairly light-hearted view of the situation. Today, I only wish I had been a bit less light-hearted about it.

At the time, security didn't really do much about it and it was soon forgotten. This morning an e-mail was circulated by our head of security advising us that all admin buildings are off limits outside of normal working hours until security ID access has been added to all of the buildings, which should be done by the end of next week.

Apparently there have been a few incidents over the past couple of weeks and it seems as though my nice pleasant hospital has even been featured on a gay sex hook up website as a place to meet for fun and frolicking with like-minded cottagers.

One of my friends who works in the security office told me that over the previous weekend (9th and 10th Feb) one of these cottagers (who is the tender age of 19) got his head kicked in by the guy he had arranged to meet, and apparently is lucky to have survived. The kid was not discovered for nearly 35 hours, and that was only by a fluke security check of the building as one of the smoke alarms had gone off. The case has now been handed over to the police, but the head of security is also investigating into why my initial complaint wasn't acted on more appropriately.

Whilst I feel sorry for the kid, the number of warnings that get circulated about meeting up with strangers, especially for sex, seem to fall on deaf ears. I know that even if security had closed off the admin buildings sooner, this kid would probably have simply gone somewhere else and the outcome would likely have been the same. Doesn't stop me feeling like crap.