Man With No Pants And Big Lenses
September 07, 2006
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As it turns out, the City of Kitchener builds surprisingly solid chain-linked fences. Thus, the eight-feet tall monstrosity they planted around the Kiwanis swimming pool in the name of public safety proved to be a bitch to climb. It took me several attempts and a few awkward moments at the top to make it over.
But it was totally worth it. A storm was moving over the forest, shattering the setting sun into a million individual shards of pleasure. The evening air throbbed with colours. I took out my camera, jumped out of my pants, and started snapping pictures. A light drizzle fell over the face of the waters, and I ran around the abandoned park butt-naked, trembling with joy.
That joy ended pretty quickly when I realized that the park wasn’t entirely abandoned. A guy on a bicycle was circling around in the rain, giving me dirty looks. I tried to cover myself with my camera, but he kept staring. I had no choice but to pull my pants up again, cursing vigorously under my breath.
Posted by Tudor at 11:49 PM in Here & There | TrackBackHey…I have to pay for those fences, mister…
Maybe I’ll have to get my security guard friends to take a little road trip to Kiwanis from time to time*lol*
Posted by: nameless COK employee on September 08, 2006 at 07:02 PMThat fence is dang ugly. It’s a *park* not a goth night club. Could you get your COK friends to come take it down again. I was so sad to see it there!
Posted by: martin on September 08, 2006 at 11:48 PMdid you break in too?*lol*…Hopefully you kept your pants on!
Posted by: fran on September 09, 2006 at 03:34 AMToday I realized what actually bothers me about the fence (aside from it’s sheer monstrosity): it has been erected entirely to protect children from childhood.
COK claims that it wants to keep children safe around water. Thus, they decided to enclose a 3ft. deep puddle by a giant fence, ignoring the fact that children have access to an entire river just by walking 200m in any direction. If children wanted to drown, they could do so quite conveniently by plunging into the Grand River.
Fences are just stupid. The way you protect children is not by building taller fences in useless places — it’s by actually teaching them how to live around water.
Posted by: Tudor on September 12, 2006 at 10:14 PM