DrGrip
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- North, Texas
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- White's XLT & Quick Draw II
I'm glad my children don't go to school where I went in search of treasures this evening.
About 2 months ago the school district began replacing the old playground equipment and didn't change out the chips. I'd never searched this tot lot before and figured tonight would be good since they pushed all of the chips back into place a few days ago. NOPE!
As soon as I crossed the chip retaining wall my Quickdraw went nuts. Even with good discrimination I was getting hits all over the place; it was scrap metal pieces. They looked like little keyhole plugs and after inspection I could see that they were "knockouts" for the attaching systems. When the installers were fitting the new playground equipment together it doesn't look like they cleaned up after themselves very good. While I was in the process of picking up tiny shards of steel a family of 4 came over and asked if I had found any goodies. I showed the mother and father what all I had found and they were not pleased. Their children looked to be about 7-9 years old and they even said it could hurt someone.
The 5 of us collected around 50 pieces of this stuff and the father kept most of it to take to the principal tomorrow and ask what the school is going to do about it. There's plenty left and it got dark on us.
Sorry, no treasure stories, and probably not the best way to start off new in a forum, but I figured I'd let folks know about it that may live in the Plano, TX school district.
Grip
About 2 months ago the school district began replacing the old playground equipment and didn't change out the chips. I'd never searched this tot lot before and figured tonight would be good since they pushed all of the chips back into place a few days ago. NOPE!
As soon as I crossed the chip retaining wall my Quickdraw went nuts. Even with good discrimination I was getting hits all over the place; it was scrap metal pieces. They looked like little keyhole plugs and after inspection I could see that they were "knockouts" for the attaching systems. When the installers were fitting the new playground equipment together it doesn't look like they cleaned up after themselves very good. While I was in the process of picking up tiny shards of steel a family of 4 came over and asked if I had found any goodies. I showed the mother and father what all I had found and they were not pleased. Their children looked to be about 7-9 years old and they even said it could hurt someone.
The 5 of us collected around 50 pieces of this stuff and the father kept most of it to take to the principal tomorrow and ask what the school is going to do about it. There's plenty left and it got dark on us.
Sorry, no treasure stories, and probably not the best way to start off new in a forum, but I figured I'd let folks know about it that may live in the Plano, TX school district.
Grip
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