THOUGHTS ON REAL ESTATE Monday, June 27, 2011 Next thing you know - there's a gun! Welcome to the team!On any typical warm Sunday afternoon in communities all over North America, lots of families are hanging around a local park for picnics, playgrounds and baseball. Such was our day yesterday as we headed to a baseball tryout for my 11 year old stepson's Mosquito Allstar team. This was not in our home community but a little out of the way. The team needed good players and my stepson needed a team so, off we went. This particular neighbourhood does have a reputation for being a bit rough but nothing that I would consider dangerous.
It's a beautiful day and my stepson is excited and nervous. He's in the backseat lacing up cleats and my husband and step out of the car and we can hear sirens. Lots of them and before we could close the truck doors there were 6 police cars with armed officers jumping out of their vehicles and running through the park. One had a huge rifle!!!! (I'm sure all rifles are huge when you've never seen one up close - he ran not 5 feet in front of me). If the officer has his weapon out like that - what has the bad guy got????
There are kids, families all over the place and of course the question is "what's going on?" Believe it or not, we walk over to where the tryout is suppose to take place and of course, that's where the officers have headed toward and there are 3 more police vehicles there. OMG! Where have we brought the child??!!
Not to drag this out, it turns out that two 15 year old boys decided to roll a joint at the edge of the park. An adult, not known to either boy decided to confront them and one of the youths pulled a knife on him. The coach for the tryout team went over to try and break things up and took a baseball bat with him for protection. When the officers arrive they of course cuff everyone, including the coach and seize the bat!
Now, I'm pretty sure this is not a daily occurence and I am not identifying the neighbourhood as stigmatizing it doesn't help. In the end, no one got hurt and the police response was pretty amazing. Coach got his bat back (can't practice without it) and a couple of parents are less than impressed with their adolescent sons. The gun presence scared me and I'm not sure why the officer would choose to run through a park crowded with families and ballplayers with a rifle in hand . . . The other concern, for me at least, is that there was no one directing people away from the trouble. Not that people were really drawn to it - but it was playing out right in the direct the ballplayers were headed toward. You just never know what's going to happen - especially on a warm sunny afternoon at the local park.
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