Vandals rip up Tacoma playfields

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December 30, 2008 at 3:10pm

BOBBLE TIKI: OH DEAR GOD PLEASE NOT AGAIN >>>

Oh dear God please don't let it be all depressing and stupid and please don't let it all embarrass us on a state level all over again even more than it already has and even more than it already is and even more than we've endured lo this past woeful year. Hello? Please? Is it already too late?

Why yes, yes it is.

And lo and behold, apparently another dumb ass group of vandals have destroyed more property in Tacoma.

Metro Parks reports:

Vandals tore up newly installed turf on the playfields at Stewart Heights and Portland Avenue Parks this week.

After breaking through construction fencing the individuals drove recklessly through the fields where projects have been underway to enhance drainage, irrigation and turf as part of the 2005 Park Improvement Bond.

â€œThis is so discouraging. Beyond the time and financial impacts it creates, this senseless act has left the fields in a condition that they wonâ€™t be able to recover in time hurting the teams that are depending on them,â€ said Planning, Design and Construction Manager Doug Fraser.

Field improvement work at the parks began in early fall so construction would be completed in time for use during the 2009 sports season. As a result of the destruction done to the fields and time needed for turf to establish, it is highly unlikely that these fields will recover and be ready for use until Spring 2010.

Vandals caused similar damage at Jefferson Park, another site where bond improvements had already been completed as well as Optimist, Franklin, Kandle and Fern Hill Parks.

This news is, well, simply staggering. Mind-blowing. Gut-wrenching. Colon-knotting. Eyeball-gouging. And so on.

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