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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 08:31:28 +0100
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From: mikeocon@knoware.nl (Dulcimer Disc Sport / Baseball School)
Subject: vandalisme; Nedereindse Plas
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Beste friends, romans and countrymen,
This morning, early, I was surprised to find the tee marker on hole one of
the three-hole Nedereindse Plas DiscGolf Parcours as well as the
object-pole #2 missing.
When I first walked there this morning, I turned back to first go get the
Herald Tribune after hearing from across the parking lot coming from a
parked car a driving beat, very unlike the Beatles. Thinking it was just
some folks busy with getting ready for the big event nine months from now I
didn't take much notice other than to notice it was a gray or lite green
sedan, sort of like a mercedes shape but it wasn't a mercedes.
After buying the newspaper and leaving a copy of the March 12 sport's page
article about out 8 March tournament for the Carla , the sales manager, who
gave me a couple of prizes for the tournament ("door de plaatselijke
middenstand"), I returned to the course to find these changes. Luckily I
was able to find the #2 pole-object. It had been carefully placed on the
other side of the hill that hides the A2 from the course (or vice-versa) in
plain view of the Shell station and right in the remains of the wall that
had been removed from the Plas when they realized the water wasn't
circulating well enough because of it.
I replaced it and then walked to the building where I keep the loaner discs
and portable pole-holes when not in use. It was then I noticed the #1 Tee
marker missing. After a search of the 200 meters surrounding, during which
I found a place where a car had emptied their ashtray along with several
Heineken cans ( curious was that there were a lot white pieces of something
fluffy that seemed to be as if the paper surrounding the filter had been
removed?), I began to think that here was situation that could be called
'vandalism'. Unfortunately pages 421-524 have been removed from my Oxford
Minidictionary ( from 1981 Clarendon Press) so I cannot elaborate on
vandalism but from all the talk about it somehow it comes to me that this
is what the word is used for.
On the walk home and now typing this while my family sleeps in on a Sunday
morning I'm thinking of not only replacing the tee marker with more than
just the piece of wood I found lying about nearby but calling the local
'law and order' folks to report this 'outrage' to the local golfing
community. Well maybe outrage is a little exaggerated, they did leave the 1
meter plastic 'lint' so players can still 'tee-off' today ( althought the
cloudy conditions do not forespell a large turnout today). But as John
Lennon once wrote, 'what to do is not the only problem' and 'here was a
problem to be reckoned with'. Which police to I call?
City of Nieuwegein of course as technically the Plas is in the Nieuwegein
boundary even if I did enter the park from the IJsselstein entrance. When
my double disc court ropes disappeared in much the same fashion I did
nothign but write a note on a sign where they were last seen asking for
their return To date this has not helped aand influences my decision to
take a different course of action.
Perhaps a note in the local newspaper:
Missing: #1 Tee from local DIscGolf parcours at the Nedereindse Plas.
First noticed Sunday morning @ 6:30 uur. Its a pole-form tee
approximately 80 cm protruding from the ground and 80 cm thick, painted
partially with Formido's Indian Red paint and written on it in Sea Green ;
Par 3, Dogleg, 74 meter. If you have information of its whereabouts or the
person(s) that are responsible for this 'vandalism' please call the Course
Pro at 688 1711 or email to <disctivity@aol.com> which he may not be able
to read because of the backup of junkmail so better <mikeocon@knoware.nl>.
At 50 cents a word, I don't think so...nevertheless, good morning and I'll
be trying to set my mind on next weeks tournament in Namur and April 12th
in Nijmegen. Dag!
love and regards,
Mike
p.s. dreaming of this course being included in the British DiscGolf
Association ( BDGA) tour also helps take my mind away from this 'tacky'
crime;
thinking of finally playing a round of golf with Ed "not Mark" Wiley who
once played a Klingon Ambassador in the 'Mind's Eye' episode of Star Trek
also helps;
skipping rope 140 times in 30 seconds which "Rikky" tells me is possible helps;
and then there's rereading Kyle Burk's beatalic graphospasms...;
of course wondering if Apple Computers in Bunnik will ever contact me with
regards to the best procedure to make fl.500 worth of frisbees appear with
their name and our name appearing prominently to raise funds for 'serious'
tee markers for the course helps considerably;
and then there's the zeeland discgolfers, will they ever come for a second
round on an 'established' disc golf course?
dag, dag!
---
Dulcimer Disc Sport, Kite-Flying, Rope-Jumping,
Academic ( Sentient) Baseball School
Ijsselsteinse Disctivity Center,
Nedereindse Plas,
Provincie Utrecht
The Netherlands
correspondence address:
Zwedenstraat 3
3402 TG Ijsselstein
The Netherlands
tel 31 0 30 688 1711 (first 0 not needed from outside Holland)
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