Huevogate '09 Still Roiling Slope Dog Run
The mad egg-tosser who lives in the Novo has once again lashed out at the dog run underneath the 4th Avenue condo. A few nights ago, a woman says she brought her dog to the run so he could do his evening business and someone chucked an egg down at her from the condo. On…
The mad egg-tosser who lives in the Novo has once again lashed out at the dog run underneath the 4th Avenue condo. A few nights ago, a woman says she brought her dog to the run so he could do his evening business and someone chucked an egg down at her from the condo. On the one hand: As in the incident four weeks ago, the dog and owner were in the run in the evening, when it’s supposed to be closed. On the other: The woman says her dog wasn’t making noise, and that she’s been taking him to the run at night since it opened more than a year ago. Questions abound among the run’s users. Is the egger perhaps a teenager, or just a crazy person? Do most of the Novo’s residents feel enmity towards the dog run? When will peace be restored in the Slope???
Slope Dog Run Egging On At Least One Novo Resident [Brownstoner]
Heather, interesting you write this. I was actually prompted to look for additional dog runs in the area, and saw that Macri was listed. I’ve never taken a dog there, but as of yesterday had considered it.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/park_list/index.html?search=11211&facility%5B%5D=6163&type=zip#form_top
A long, long time ago, when there was still a really good italian deli across the street from the kellogg, macri square (where that bocci court is) became an informal dog run. It was perfect — the only other people that used it were the cracked out junkies living under the BQE, and, really, it soon became a community gather place.
But it was not to last.
The way I heard it was, the owners of Kellogg’s complained about the “noise” and “filth”. Then they started locking it and putting out rat poison. Naturally, the quality of life on that corner increased a hundredfold, with all the dog owners gone.
(Okay, that last sentence was sarcasm, it was a few more years before they got rid of the tent city under the underpass, and I believe there are STILL people nodding off and vomiting on those benches.
And your child will be toilet-trained by 3 or 4 at the latest; you will be scooping the poop as long as your dog is alive.
But no FAFSA or college tuition and no applying for pre-k, k, middle school, high school, college! After the first year until the last year or two, dogs are definitely cheaper.
Now cats…
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Your child doesn’t deter burglars from touring your home
hmm.. if i was a burglar, i bet they would
*rob*
Rob, I called dogs leashfruit because many people who have them are about as attached to them as they are to their c_*%^$fruit. (Sorry, call me prissy, I just can’t type that word.) I have dogs and a kid, and thus feel entitled to make this observation. And for those who impugn dogs compared to children, yes, kids are more important.
I don’t treat my dogs as if they were my children. They are different creatures: the animals I live with. My dogs don’t wear clothes unless it’s freezing out. They will be dead before I am, unless I am very unlucky or they can find the spare change to get themselves cloned. But until she’s 22 or has her black belt, my kid can’t keep me safe on a 12:00 am trip to the Korean deli for the milk for her cereal tomorrow. Your child doesn’t deter burglars from touring your home; your dog does. And if the boiler breaks down, your dogs can keep your family warm overnight, while you magnanimously lend your space heater to the leashfruit-less people upstairs. Last of all, your dogs will never tell you that you are totally out of it, and immediately afterward ask to borrow your favorite item of clothing, even though you are so verrry uncool.
Again I dont think the story is true – but if it is…..”Give that guy a contract” (Mets are desperate for pitching)
Eww…this is sooo ghetto! Throwing eggs at people from a distance…cowards. I say get over it or come outside and say something in person, be a man or woman about it if it bother them so much! Passive-aggressive personalities…
quetal- but you’re a Brooklynite, no?
“do you seriously think i would even have the balls to do such a thing? it’s nice to think i would, but i probably wouldnt”
This is why you are so lovable,rob! All someone would have to do is show you the picture of a peacock and that’s it. I wonder if it would stop the dog owner from using the dog run after hours? 🙂
I’m a dog owner, and if the park is closed, they shouldn’t be there, that goes without saying. Walk your dog on the street, or go up to Prospect Park before 9 AM or after 9 PM when its legal.
However, breaking the law by throwing an egg out of a window and potentially injuring a person or their pet is an idiotic way to stop someone else form breaking the laws of the dog park–in this case, the closing times. If you really want them out of there, call 311, or talk to your beat cop. Is the issue really worth hurting someone over? An egg from high up can do more damage than just yoke in the face.
On the other hand, maybe the dogs in that park now have shinier coats, thanks to the eggs.