Editor:
Well, summer’s coming to an end and so is baseball season. My husband and I have enjoyed many evenings watching the games in Brothers Park, just a short walk from where we live. So imagine our dismay when one morning, my husband finds his car windshield smashed in from what looked like a baseball. There was no note, no witness, so we chalked it up as a fluke, got the window fixed and were comforted by the thought that lightning doesn’t strike twice. That was last summer.
Well, we were wrong. A couple of weeks ago, lightning struck again. This time there was a witness. One of our neighbours saw a baseball go through our car’s windshield. Again, no one left a note. And, again we paid for another window.
The question is, why didn’t anyone leave a note? Don’t the baseball leagues have insurance to cover these kinds of accidents? What were the teams thinking when they saw that one of their foul balls landed on the windshield of a car parked across the street from where they were playing? And what kind of example are these so-called adults setting for their children and other young people who watch their games? What kind of people just turn their backs when they damage someone else’s property?
I still like watching “the old ballgame,” but I have to admit this has left a bitter taste!
Barbara Raphael, Gibsons
