Playground equipment probably didn't spontaneously combust
Yesterday, KTRK-13's Deborah Wrigley reported on vandalism at a Bellaire park:
There is a plea to parents to help find the person who torched a popular playground in Bellaire.
Slides and swings were destroyed over the weekend at The Russ Pitman Park on Newcastle.
This is not the biggest crime you've heard of, but consider where it happened. A neighborhood park and a playground where small children got to play, slide and climb. There is something almost sacred about these kinds of spaces and now one of them has been violated.
On one side of Evergreen Street, a playground is now closed off with yellow tape. On the other, school children have to make do with another playground intended for larger kids.
Parents are trying to make sense of why the slide set and a jungle gym in Pitman Park is no more than melted plastic and twisted metal.
"Maybe they were playing around, messing around and started something," hypothesized parent Madeleine Peterman. "Why would you destroy a playground?"
The fire was reported around 4:30am Sunday and investigators expect gasoline or charcoal fluid may have started it. The materials burned like a tire.
The Chronicle's stellar headline writers brought their usual skill to the Hearst daily's probing coverage today:
The Chron.com commenters have some fun with that statement of the obvious.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/01/08 11:26 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (0)
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