An account published by Anthony Davis over at lovelakewood.com illustrates a fairly amazing breadth of controversy surrounding Lakewood’s Kauffman Park basketball court.
Basically, a 58-year-old man flipped out and damn near started fighting several pre-teens because they were shooting hoops after-hours (8 p.m.). Instead, he threw some punches at a 48-year-old man who witnessed the argument and stepped in to defend the kids.
Kauffman Park – and those rowdy teenagers with their sports games – has become a sore spot for neighbors who just really don’t like the fact that they live next to a public basketball court. Over the past few years, City Council meetings have become soapboxes for Lakeland Avenue residents taking local leaders to task for allowing nonsense like *basketball* to take place in their city.
Seriously, read the full story. It’s nuts.
This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2013.
I lived on Lakeland Ave for 5 1/2 years and few people I knew cared about the court aside from complaining about nighttime lights at times. The people who are really up in arms about the court are racists who are going to be living in Westlake, Avon, Strongsville, Medina, North Ridgeville, North Royalton, Brunstucky, (insert right-wing township here), etc in a few years anyway.
Oh no, 8pm is so late for basketball! I go to bed right after the 6pm news ends, and the basketball playing keeps me awake!
Seriously? Just let them freaking play basketball, there are much worse things the kids could be doing (such as vandalizing the homes of people that get the basketball courts closed down too early).