Build a Wiffle Ball Field, and the Lawyers Will Come
Read it. Read it and tell me this is not ridiculous. I am all for peace and quiet, but that is what sound proof insulation is for. Maybe I am still yet to young to understand the annoyances that "responsibility bearing adults" must that causes them to be ruffled by the slightest sign of youth entertainment.
If you were for some unforeseeable reason not choosing to read the article first let me give you a quick rundown. A couple of teenagers cleared a brush filled drainage area in Greenwich, found some excess materials, painted up a Fenway Field lookalike and attracted a lot of friends to play wiffle ball with.
Sounds like a great plan, right? According to everyone that is not a teenager in this situation this is a huge nuisance that has more legal implications and noise complaints than Brinkley divorce has paparazzi. The days of Sand Lot are long gone and now those grouchy old men with evil dogs have the legal ability to ruin the game.
Not to say those neighbors who have issues are completely in the wrong, but back then I'm sure the neighbors said the same thing. Yet then the idea was that kids needed a productive and active way to stay out of the way and keep out of trouble. Baseball was the best plan. Not organized, no planned teams, just a ball and a bat and a pieces of cardboard to mark the bases. These guys have gone even farther and actually replicated Fenway field and instead of saying "great creativity" and "have fun" these adults are instead of telling them to shut it down and "fuck off" (to use the abrasive version of language).
We have lost America. No matter how many changes this country goes through and how great these changes can be I find nothing positive in this world of increased obesity and decreased unorganized or self-organized activity for our youth. How could it be positive to take away these teenagers right to be young and active. We complain that all teens do today is play video games and all we seem to want them to do is study all day at a desk. This drastic change in ideals is only causing more negative impacts and I have a message for those neighbors who call in the cops: Would you rather they be egging your house like other repressed kids who don't have a place to release tension?
I was one of those kids, not the eggers, but the creative ones. It was always discouraging to hear those words. Even worse, the adults always yelled at us to do something productive with our time. They can't make up their minds, then they wonder why we turn inward.
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