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To the editor: I could not believe my eyes when I pulled my car into the elementary school lot for an evening playing basketball on the outdoor courts last Wednesday. Some ding-aling or some group of similar ding-a-lings had had all the basketball rims removed earlier that day. I just could not appreciate this profoundly ignoramic thing someone could do.
Sure, I understand that there were no trespassing signs up; but why is it that in any other county in the United States (take Madison for example—who seem for some odd reason to always have great high school basketball teams) the public schools nearly always leave their outdoor facilities, especially basketball courts, open to public use?
People in the summer have played on those basketball courts since the elementary school’s opening, right around 10 years ago. Were the hoops taken down because of the extremely large rash of violent, nasty crimes that have occurred there? I don’t think so.
Was it because of the loud and abusive language that is heard there daily by the surrounding populous community comprised of exactly one house, which is probably a minimum of 130 yards away? Was it because the county is going to surprise us all by putting down a hard top court behind the recreation center? I don’t think so.
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