I live in the 800 block of Richie Avenue in Lima, and for months now the kids in the neighborhood have been playing basketball in the street right beside my car. I have asked them not to play it by my car because I have seen them laying on my car, leaning on it, and crawling on the hood. Tonight I found their fingerprints on my windshield.
A few weeks ago The Lima News had an article in the paper about kids playing basketball in the streets and not to do it because it is illegal and dangerous to the kids. This article was quoting the Lima Police Department. I had called the police department numerous times about this problem before the article was in the paper and I have called many times since it was in the paper. They keep playing basketball in the street and today and other days too, cars had to beep at them because they will not get out of the street. They cuss and yell at the drivers for beeping at them.
My question: What is it going to take to get the police to make them stop? Is it going to take a car hitting them? Is it going to take them falling in the street and getting severely injured? I just don’t understand why the Lima Police Department doesn’t do something about it. It is dangerous, it is illegal, and it is not right.
Why don’t the parents teach their kids that it is wrong and not to do it? I am raising my grandson and I don’t want him to think that this is ok. Why aren’t the laws being enforced? We have lived here for 41 years and something needs to be done before there is a tragedy!
— Charlotte Miller, Lima
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