Property owner Mike Rios received a video of people doing lewd acts in the afternoon on the playset.
VIDEO: Local reaction as homeless take over children parkTACOMA, Wash. — Some South Sound residents are fed up with what is happening at a park that is supposed to be for children.Now frustrated neighbors want the city to act, especially after an indecent act just happened there on Saturday.
That was when people in Tacoma had just had it. Residents said if the park isn’t for toddlers, it should be repurposed and called something else.“Every once in a while,” Perkins said, “but it’s usually adults or a dog park.” Alma Collins was walking her dog and said this park was once used by a nearby daycare, but not anymore.
“Because you have Wright’s Park,” said Collins. “They have the pool, the kiddie pool, the swings. They can go down there and play. This is, it’s just too much.”“Like fully naked, everything,” he said.“It’s just always been a lot of activity other than children being in here,” Rios said. “It’s ‘Lots for Tots’, so our tax dollars paid for this park to build a playground for toddlers.”At the park, KIRO 7′s Deborah Horne saw that there are cigarette butts aplenty, even what seemed to be a drug pipe.
Metro Parks appears to have gotten the message, as not one, but two security patrols were at the park after KIRO 7 alerted them to the residents’ concerns.A spokeswoman said anyone who sees anything illegal at the park, like what happened Saturday afternoon, should always call 911.
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