Really? Something Very Bad Could Get Even Worse? And Thanks to the People Who Are Supposed to Make it Better? That Brings Disheartening to a New Low.

Yesterday (Saturday), I was leaving the Village at 4:30 in the afternoon.  I was driving south on 6th Avenue.  Just as I got to Griffing Park (the northern border of which is 115th St), a dark and semi-marked BP police cruiser (SUV style) shot across 6th Avenue, without emergency lights flashing, or siren blaring, and cut across Griffing Park.  By driving over it.

It would have taken about five seconds, or possibly up to 10 seconds, longer to drive north on 6th Avenue, and take a left (west) on 115th St.

Griffing Park contains a flag pole, several trees, some sort of memorial that looks like a brick barbecue, and two sculptures.  The ground cover is grass.

In "full disclosure," let me say I hate grass.  I think it's a menace plant.  It takes a great deal of time, work (and/or money), chemicals, and water, and it commonly doesn't look good anyway.  There are a few places in the Village where the ground cover is grass that does look good.  Griffing Park is one of them.  Grass in more or less all other public places in the Village -- most glaringly the medians -- does not look good.  It more commonly than not looks terrible.  So the apparently carefully cared for grass in Griffing Park is very noteworthy.

Of course, that grass won't look good for long with people (our police?!!) driving over it.

We even have scattered signs, posted by the Village, telling people to "keep off the medians."  No, people don't keep off the medians, but they're supposed to.  In theory, if a BP police officer happened to see someone driving on a median, that officer would cite the driver.  So, the BP police officer is the driver driving on the median?  And that officer was not on an emergency call, and had an alternative that would have taken 5-10 extra seconds?

I realize this complaint is on the list of examples of all the people who don't care about BP (even though they live or work here), and it's not a short list of examples, or of people.  But it was so glaring, so unnecessary, and, as my brother used to say, like sticking your finger in someone's eye.

Can't we be bothered about anything?  This is either part of our land use Code, or it's an Ordinance.  And our own police/employees violate it?

Sometimes, we act like a two-bit municipality.  Sometimes, it seems we value ourselves at under two bits.