Just Disgusting!

So I started my adult kickball league tonight (Sunday) at Enslen Park. I have recently written how things have somewhat quieted down at Enslen Park, but not tonight! EVERY homeless person and vagrant seemed to be at Enslen Park tonight. It was frinkin' embarrassing! The cops were called (by someone) because a group (Monique and her band of idiots) almost got into a fight. None of this was too close to where we were playing, but it was appalling. By the end of the night one dude was so sh**faced he was falling over and cussing up a storm on his way to Graceada. The city gave us some paint (Thank you Julie) so we could paint the womens restroom and clean it up a bit as we had flowers, candles, and shower curtains to hide the stalls and give privacy, and my female customers appreciated it. I also had my brother-in-law stand "guard" with a Happy Hour Kickball t-shirt as security for the ladies. It is a shame all this has to be done in one of our "crown jewels" of a park in Modesto. It is a damn shame I cannot have an event such as this activity or even Concert In the Park without some incident happening from the vagrancy.

"Thug" Strikes Girl!

So I chronicled the incident where this young thug(s) were going to go after a "Jerry" the other day. Well he just got into an altercation with a guy right at the Boy Scouts building as he started to just throw haymakers at this guy as the dude was sitting on the ground. Well, "chick" tries to break it up (the "chick" that is involved in this beach blanket bingo in my previous post) and the thug starts swinging at her striking her before taking off on his BMX bike! Security!?

A Few Notes

First, got word last night that a downtown restaurant owner got one of their stainless steel tables ripped off from behind their place of business. They took it out back to wash it off, and when they went inside, it was stolen. It is all on video. It was the same dude that comes by every night to collect recyclables. The kicker here is, is that the restaurant owners always separate the recyclables for a convenience that "dude" does not need to go into the trash bin. It was the same "dude" that stole his table all so he can get .40 cents per pound for it. Give certain "vagrants" an inch, and they will take....you know.

I think if you are sleeping UNDER a blanket, that should get outlawed at a park. A regular Enslen "resident" and her beau "sleep" under the blanket everyday, but some fornication or a similar act seems to be prevalent on occasion. This is during the day time!

I have not seen a motorcycle patrol at the parks in forever. I used to be able to rely on emailing Officer Hamilton and these type of habits, such as the "fornication" would end. Is he still around? Chief Harden?

Of course outlawing blanket bingo at the parks would have to fall in line right behind the "mulling" over of city council members for a rental property registry. Great idea, but how in the world would it be enforced?

Idle time creates incident

Just witnessed a near fight at Enslen Park. It has been relatively quiet over there recently. The drinkers go to Graceada now as Enslen has turned into the "chill" park. An 18-hour chill, but a chill nonetheless. Just a few moments ago however, a dude, "Jerry" was telling this young thug that he stole his "old ladies bike", and the young thug said "Well its mine now, and now I am going to kick your ass" as he and his band of young thugs chased Jerry off. If I was not witnessing it then it would have been down.

Idle time on a hot day breeds issues. Only Jerry was probably the homeless dude of the bunch, the others are just young, punk thugs that hang out and intimidate, period.

Again, I recommend a "Park Patrol", with an unarmed officer there to just patrol the parks. Other cities do this. CANA has it's security patrol that it is working on, and an update should be coming, so that could do as long as the security officer patrols the park.