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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Sept 2, 2017 1:36:23 GMT
I am so angry that my neighborhood's playgrounds all get ruined.
Swings that are either thrown over the bar so that the chains are wrapped around the bar, or just broken off the chains altogether.
Graffiti on everything. Cuss words and crude anatomical drawings.
So much trash, even though there are numerous trash cans. And there are city workers that tidy it every month.
I don't know the answer to this. Our elected representatives have said it is teens at night.
I myself have seen kids throwing the swings over the bars, or standing on the baby swings. They don't care if I ask them not to.
I'm tired of having to drive a half hour away to take the kids to a playground in good repair. During the school year, especially when it is dark by 5pm, it's not even feasible to go so far.
I guess this is just a vent. Petty in light of what our country and world are dealing with. I apologize.
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Post by padresfan619 on Sept 2, 2017 1:39:18 GMT
I'm sorry your playgrounds are in such a state. It is so terrible that people can't just be respectful of these places.
I don't have children but I frequently babysit my niece, I cannot take her to the park within walking distance of my home because it has become a homeless camp. Frankly, I don't feel comfortable walking through the park on my way home from work in broad day light.
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Post by AnotherPea on Sept 2, 2017 1:40:37 GMT
Yep. And school playgrounds do too. At my kids's school neighborhood moms would complain because teachers took basketball nets inside after recess. But their kids were the ones destroying the playground after hours.
My old church had a nice playground available for anyone to use. It was destroyed within a year.
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Post by femalebusiness on Sept 2, 2017 1:41:17 GMT
That sucks. Maybe go to the next city council meeting and request cameras be installed.
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Post by AnotherPea on Sept 2, 2017 1:59:24 GMT
That sucks. Maybe go to the next city council meeting and request cameras be installed. This. We had a nice park that devolved into a meeting place for male prostitution. Peepholes appeared in the girl's' restroom too. So seedy. It went from a nice park to where you wouldn't dare visit at dusk. Some active moms fought to turn things around and ten years later it is one of the nicest parks we have.
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Post by utpea on Sept 2, 2017 2:01:40 GMT
Our playgrounds do not get destroyed like you described. How sad. We certainly have other neighborhood problems, but graffiti and property destruction aren't among them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 2:05:36 GMT
The losers like to set fire to the ones around here.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 2:07:32 GMT
Locally, we have had a couple playgrounds burnt to the ground in recent years. Most recently, in May I think. There's a couple that have graffiti on them. People try to keep them clean and safe but the mean, gross, and thoughtless people outnumber them.
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Post by mom26 on Sept 2, 2017 2:14:34 GMT
Yes. We live in a relatively quiet, older neighborhood but our little park is a mess. Play equipment is vandalized, there are broken beer bottles and used condoms scattered all over...it's disgusting. There was a decent basketball court but after too many times of it being graffitied and the basket frames being destroyed (they gave up on nets long ago) they finally jack-hammered it away. Nothing left now but a huge patch of dirt and weeds. In our case, it is teens up to no good at night. Neighbors near the park call non-emer when they see it happening, but an officer rarely ever shows up. If they do, the teens leave and just come back a little later. No consequences so it just keeps happening. It's very sad and maddening.
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Post by epeanymous on Sept 2, 2017 2:15:37 GMT
I think the only thing I have sen has been occasional graffiti. I am sorry you are dealing with this.
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Post by hop2 on Sept 2, 2017 2:21:07 GMT
Not really.
There was one incident of bad drawings ( which MY kid found and told the principle ) but it was removed. We can still use the playground and it's been there since DD was in K she's a junior in college now.
Now 20 miles east is a different story, but even then the playgrounds are not totally ruined. There might be a bullet hole here or there and I'm sure there's needles/drug paraphernalia laying around but the playgrounds aren't totally ruined. No one plays on them due to the drug issues but they aren't ruined.
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Post by pondrunner on Sept 2, 2017 2:25:12 GMT
The elementary school my children are going to this year had their playground destroyed by arson.
I see some broken and occasional carvings or graffiti. But not as much as you are describing.
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Post by melanell on Sept 2, 2017 2:27:04 GMT
I know of a handful within say a half hour radius of me that have had damage done more than once. Yet dozens and dozens more are perfectly fine. I'm not sure why it is that even within the same small town one park will have repeated problems and the others will not. I wonder if it's being done by someone living right in that neighborhood. No matter what it's certainly sad.
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 2, 2017 2:27:24 GMT
They took down all the basketball hoops because of constant vandalism. The park near me is quite small, it isn't terrible but they need garbage cans closer to the playground! The graffiti on the slide says something like your ugly and I kind of want to correct it to you're.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 2, 2017 3:02:21 GMT
We've had issues with graffiti on some of the equipment at the park closest to us, nothing obscene just random tagging. After seeing it like that a couple months in a row, DH took it upon himself to bring supplies to the park and cleaned it off. There are also things that obviously had some kind of graphics that made part of it look like a race car or something that was riveted on, and that has been yanked off. I think part of that attitude starts when kids are small and their parents let them do things like throw gravel or wood chips or leaves and stuff down the slides so they get dirty and gross, or throw the sand outside of a sandbox and say nothing to stop their special little snowflakes from doing it. They grow up thinking it's perfectly okay to abuse something that isn't yours (or even if it is). From there it isn't too big of a stretch to get to littering, tagging, arson, etc. and unsupervised kids have been known to do all kinds of really stupid, thoughtless destructive things. My kid has been taught and is expected to treat her own and other people's things with respect, whether it's our own things in our house, playground equipment at school or at the park, or toys and such at friend's homes. We recently hosted a friend from out of town for dinner with her three kids. Knowing they were coming, we put away most of DD's toys so things with a bunch of pieces wouldn't get scattered and lost. One of the kids was playing with a Barbie puppy camper thing that DD had gotten for her birthday a few months ago, and the kid peeled off the stickers on some of the pieces. DD is very careful with her stuff and got very upset when she saw what had happened. The kid that did it was probably about six, but even so she was old enough to know better than to peel the decorative stickers off of some other kid's brand new toy. $3.50 for a replacement sheet of stickers and freaking $5.95 for "shipping" and it was made whole again (at our cost, grrrr!) but still, WTH? Who does that? I would have been appalled if my kid did that.
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Post by birdy on Sept 2, 2017 3:14:35 GMT
The playground at my DD's former elementary school was always so gross on Monday. The custodian would have to do a sweep of the whole area and inside the equipment. He'd find needles, used condoms, dog poop and poop smeared inside the tunnel slide. So gross!
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Post by cmpeter on Sept 2, 2017 3:14:57 GMT
What the heck is wrong with people!?!
No, ours don't get trashed like that.
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Post by lucyg on Sept 2, 2017 3:31:37 GMT
What the heck is wrong with people!?! No, ours don't get trashed like that. Ditto that. In my small town, it would be front-page news if something like that happened here. I'm sorry this is happening in your neighborhood.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 4:12:57 GMT
It depends on the neighborhood. The higher the socioeconomic level, the better kept the parks and playgrounds are. Sad, but true.
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Post by AnotherPea on Sept 2, 2017 4:20:12 GMT
Last year I caught four different boys, at three different times, damaging my classroom materials . As punishment I had them stay after school and fix what they could. Plus a little extra. Two of the boys' mothers were mad at me - claiming that I was using corporal punishment. One boy's mom said she didn't appreciate her son being late for lacrosse practice. The fourth kid was smart- he didn't tell his mother why he stayed late . You know full well those first three boys learned a lesson or two from their mothers about respecting other people's property.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 4:40:18 GMT
I wish we could pay for more law enforcement to keep more of an eye and ear on these areas and turn them around before they go from bad to worse.
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Post by PaperAngel on Sept 2, 2017 5:18:20 GMT
No & they shouldn't anywhere else. (((hugs)))
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 5:24:58 GMT
It depends on the neighborhood. The higher the socioeconomic level, the better kept the parks and playgrounds are. Sad, but true. Actually the playgrounds in the better neighborhoods here are usually the first ones destroyed. In fact one of the nicest parks here is in the biggest druggie den neighborhood. They keep it nice to keep the police away. Now most of the drive by shootings happen in the lower rent neighborhoods.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Sept 2, 2017 11:39:23 GMT
I volunteer with the Parks Commission in our town and we have three parks with playgrounds under our umbrella as well as numerous trails. Luckily, we have not had much pure vandalism. Trash is a issue and gross bathroom behavior. One park had feces smeared in the bathroom regularly. The conclusion ended up being that it was a college student. It stopped when the student moved away.
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Post by mikklynn on Sept 2, 2017 11:47:14 GMT
The losers like to set fire to the ones around here. Here, too. I don't understand ruining something just for fun.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Sept 2, 2017 12:04:07 GMT
The graffiti on the slide says something like your ugly and I kind of want to correct it to you're. Oh my gosh. It's so wrong, but I totally snickered anyway. I think part of that attitude starts when kids are small and their parents let them do things like throw gravel or wood chips or leaves and stuff down the slides so they get dirty and gross, or throw the sand outside of a sandbox and say nothing to stop their special little snowflakes from doing it. They grow up thinking it's perfectly okay to abuse something that isn't yours (or even if it is). From there it isn't too big of a stretch to get to littering, tagging, arson, etc. and unsupervised kids have been known to do all kinds of really stupid, thoughtless destructive things. I totally agree with this. Unfortunately, so many times i see the mother tossing her gum wrapper or chip bag on the ground, and you know that her child knows no different. The higher the socioeconomic level, the better kept the parks and playgrounds are. Sad, but true. I've found that to be true. It's why during the summer I make a point to drive out to the nicer areas. The difference in cleanliness and upkeep of equipment is like night and day. One park had feces smeared in the bathroom regularly. The conclusion ended up being that it was a college student. It stopped when the student moved away. That just so bizarre.
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Post by sueg on Sept 2, 2017 12:16:10 GMT
I don't often go to playgrounds here, as I no longer have small children, but when I have been babysitting, or when we've had the playgroup I work at meet in the park, I have been amazed at how well kept they are. Sand is clean, hardly ever see poop, playground equipment, including water play, in good order. There is occasionally graffiti, but it is usually fresh, and gone later that day. One of the parks we go to with playgroup even has sand toys, and when you get there early in the morning, they are usually neatly piled at the side of the sand area.
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Post by peabay on Sept 2, 2017 12:20:45 GMT
Wow! Not at all! We have two relatively new, big, fancy inclusive playgrounds and they look pretty much like they did when they were first built. However, I live in the CT equivalent of Mayberry and we have curfews on our parks (dusk) and a good number of cops out and about. And everyone knows everyone else's kid so if a kid gets out of line, in all likelihood, someone knows his or her mom and the phone would be ringing two minutes later.
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Post by AllieC on Sept 2, 2017 12:33:59 GMT
Our playgrounds and parks are very well utilised and although they might get the odd bit of graffiti, generally they are in very good condition and don't have the issues many have posted.
How horrible and totally disrespectful. Going to the playground was a very regular thing for us when my dd was small and it makes me sad that so many are being damaged like this.
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Post by artbabe on Sept 2, 2017 14:29:41 GMT
I've never seen one vandalized around here and I've been to at least 10 of them. All are in metro parks or neighborhood parks.
I'd be outraged.
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