so sad, this has to be a record.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wl...-devou-park-covington-opening-police/41601433
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wl...-devou-park-covington-opening-police/41601433
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so sad, this has to be a record.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wl...-devou-park-covington-opening-police/41601433
and true to form here's r/discgolfcirclejerk for ya...
The park went ahead and welded the pole to the sleeves for the 10 that are currently in place. (They had 6 baskets in storage for a possible future expansion.)
On the other hand, a pole course is typically less populated... I use to be able to play Johnson without hardly ever seeing another soul.
Best solution but determined thieves will probably just uproot them, concrete and all.
Sucks that it happens and really sucks that it happened to a relatively new course and on such a large scale. Definitely more than one person was involved. Hopefully they can catch the culprits.
Funny, I play Little Lehigh Parkway in SE PA and it is an utter ghost town. Played 4 or 5 times this summer and the only time we saw anybody throw was when we finished our round and were driving away.
Playing disc golf is a way cooler hobby than crime… if 1+1=2 here, the criminal is probably known in the local DG scene.
What a shame, it used to be one of the best courses in the Lehigh Valley and was one of the '05 Worlds courses. I grew up there and played it regularly starting in '06 until I left town in '10. I'm up that way in a few weeks, hopefully it will look decent when I go. I usually play a lot of Jordan, Covered, and South when I'm in town.
We have a course here in West MIch (Johnson) that originated as a pole course in the '80s. At some point baskets were installed. Stories I've heard state that because the park was on the outskirts of multiple municipalities (Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Grandville & Walker), it did not get regularly patrolled by the fuzz. So it was easy pickings to snag a basket. "They" got tired of replacing the baskets & removed all of them & put the poles back in (baskets were put in a few year back). Hopefully no one gets the bright idea to install poles at this Cincy course.
On the other hand, a pole course is typically less populated... I use to be able to play Johnson without hardly ever seeing another soul.
We have a course here in West MIch (Johnson) that originated as a pole course in the '80s. At some point baskets were installed. Stories I've heard state that because the park was on the outskirts of multiple municipalities (Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Grandville & Walker), it did not get regularly patrolled by the fuzz. So it was easy pickings to snag a basket. "They" got tired of replacing the baskets & removed all of them & put the poles back in (baskets were put in a few year back). Hopefully no one gets the bright idea to install poles at this Cincy course.
On the other hand, a pole course is typically less populated... I use to be able to play Johnson without hardly ever seeing another soul.
That's just awful news and one of my biggest fears as a designer. Hopefully, the perps get caught soon. I watched the news clip and saw the locks that were used. A decent pair of bolt cutters can defeat those things in seconds. I highly recommend something like these:
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