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Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
07/19/17 at 8:29pm
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This past weekend, someone shattered the plexiglass cover of our trail kiosk and poorly drew male genitalia all around it. We're asking our frequent visitors to be alert and call 911 if you see anything out of the ordinary. 

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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #1 - 07/19/17 at 8:36pm
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Stay classy, Ballantyne.
  
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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #2 - 07/19/17 at 8:41pm
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Harry Balsagna wrote on 07/19/17 at 8:36pm:
Stay classy, Ballantyne. 


Word! Rich kids with no apparent values. Sad.

  
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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #3 - 07/19/17 at 9:13pm
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Harry Balsagna wrote on 07/19/17 at 8:36pm:
Stay classy, Ballantyne. 


Proof positive that money can't buy class. Ironically (because people always complained about the surrounding area), the kiosk we had at SWDP stood there for years without issue.
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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #4 - 07/19/17 at 10:50pm
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Specialist wrote on 07/19/17 at 9:13pm:


Proof positive that money can't buy class. Ironically (because people always complained about the surrounding area), the kiosk we had at SWDP stood there for years without issue.

Until someone removed it to do some landscaping...
  
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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #5 - 07/19/17 at 11:21pm
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The Cycle Path wrote on 07/19/17 at 10:50pm:

Until someone removed it to do some landscaping...


Haha - I never did get an explanation for that.  Huh
  
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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #6 - 07/20/17 at 9:35am
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Over the years at the jungle of Signal Hill. Vandalism has been done. Trail Markers pulled from the ground, trail leveled due to apt expansion, bottles broken. But the last time I saw the kiosk, it was still intact. There are brewery stickers on it. And a ancient Trailblazer flyer. I think someone lost the key
  
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Reply #7 - 07/20/17 at 3:14pm
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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #8 - 07/20/17 at 4:05pm
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The Cycle Path wrote on 07/19/17 at 10:50pm:

Until someone removed it to do some landscaping...


That was a shame too!!!  It was an Eagle Scout Project that took a young man a bunch of time working on (not to mention the time of his leaders who approved it).  Sad
  
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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #9 - 07/20/17 at 5:10pm
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This has Gastonia written all over it... As the crow flies its not that far from Ballantyne...

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Re: Vandalism at Ballantyne Community Park
Reply #10 - 07/22/17 at 4:51am
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Ballantyne has a mix of people of all income brackets. There are $200k houses next to neighborhoods with $2 million dollar houses. And a crap load of apartments. Pretty much the same deal all over charlotte....except the $2 Mil houses.
  
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