ChiefD
Footballguy
So last night my son was at soccer practice at a local park. It's a pretty nice park - several teams were having soccer practices at the same time. Soccer practice was an hour and a half.
During his practice I usually run - mainly because I have an hour and a half to myself to run. Sometimes I'll go run the streets around there or down to a lake close by. Last night I decided to just run loops around the fields - it's about 3/4 mile of a wide paved trail.
The park itself has some wide open fields, some nice decorative trees, some playground equipment, restroom, shelter house thingy - basically your typical suburban park.
So anyway, I'm on my first loop, and there are a couple of younger girls wearing soccer gear kicking some nice, decorative trees. Looked like some some larger flowering crabapples - something like that. They were youngish trees - maybe 4-5 years or so.
Anyone, one of these kids was kicking the tree with her cleats and knocking the bark off the lower part of the tree. Basically to the point where about a 12" strip of bark was gone off the bottom part of this tree all the way around.
So me, being the outdoorsman type and all, was watching this as I ran by thinking: "She shouldn't be doing that. That bark is a protective layer around the tree and the removal of such could cause some issues later on. I wonder if I should say something to her."
These two girls were probably about 10 years old or so - about the age of my daughter. I decided to not say something, mainly for the reason I didn't want someone coming and accusing me of talking to a couple of young girls. So I ran on.
The second loop I come around again, and she's moved on to another tree, basically doing the same thing. Another tree roughed up pretty good. It looked like a couple of beavers have started the process of doing tree removal and were doing the prep-work.
So I start thinking again: should I say something. At this rate she was going to damage the whole decorative tree forest that was in the park. I decided not to say something but it was starting to bother me a bit.
I come around for the third loop, and they moved on to another tree. Thankfully they were not kicking this one, so I kept moving. And by the time I hit the 4th loop they were gone.
So, staying silent was probably the right move, but what would you guys have done? I already tried suing @gianmarco's neighbor, but that has gotten me nowhere.
During his practice I usually run - mainly because I have an hour and a half to myself to run. Sometimes I'll go run the streets around there or down to a lake close by. Last night I decided to just run loops around the fields - it's about 3/4 mile of a wide paved trail.
The park itself has some wide open fields, some nice decorative trees, some playground equipment, restroom, shelter house thingy - basically your typical suburban park.
So anyway, I'm on my first loop, and there are a couple of younger girls wearing soccer gear kicking some nice, decorative trees. Looked like some some larger flowering crabapples - something like that. They were youngish trees - maybe 4-5 years or so.
Anyone, one of these kids was kicking the tree with her cleats and knocking the bark off the lower part of the tree. Basically to the point where about a 12" strip of bark was gone off the bottom part of this tree all the way around.
So me, being the outdoorsman type and all, was watching this as I ran by thinking: "She shouldn't be doing that. That bark is a protective layer around the tree and the removal of such could cause some issues later on. I wonder if I should say something to her."
These two girls were probably about 10 years old or so - about the age of my daughter. I decided to not say something, mainly for the reason I didn't want someone coming and accusing me of talking to a couple of young girls. So I ran on.
The second loop I come around again, and she's moved on to another tree, basically doing the same thing. Another tree roughed up pretty good. It looked like a couple of beavers have started the process of doing tree removal and were doing the prep-work.
So I start thinking again: should I say something. At this rate she was going to damage the whole decorative tree forest that was in the park. I decided not to say something but it was starting to bother me a bit.
I come around for the third loop, and they moved on to another tree. Thankfully they were not kicking this one, so I kept moving. And by the time I hit the 4th loop they were gone.
So, staying silent was probably the right move, but what would you guys have done? I already tried suing @gianmarco's neighbor, but that has gotten me nowhere.