Yep---wallowing! Oink oink! The mud was fresh, summer-warm, and dense---the field is used for baseball so was packed with sand and dirt. Spent a wicked 10 minutes stomping deep into the gooey mess---right after a 2-hour rainfall. I'm going back later!!! WOW!!!
i used to work for the parks department, so i can tell you from experience that whoever takes care of the baseball fields there fucking hates you. your 10 minute romp in the mud probably took two hours just to make presentable again. it won't be truly repaired though; you took an already low spot and made them dig it out and make it even lower, so next rain it's even more of a bitch to clean up.
Just what can be done about people who recklessly deface the surfaces of community sporting facilities for their own selfish, and possibly auto-erotic, gratification? It's a poser, that's for sure, but hopefully the ensuing debate will throw up some interesting solution proposals.
shallowly buried razor blades comes to mind, but there would be some pretty terrible side effects. when i was the parks guy, our park board was all for fencing in the ball fields and locking them, only to be opened for games. i was against it, but they ended up getting the city council's approval and that's what we did. of course, people still jumped the fence occasionally. it's an expensive option, but i think the ideal solution is security cameras. which is not really entirely ideal, because security cameras everywhere is kind of creepy, but in public spaces that people like to vandalize, i think it's preferable to, and cheaper than, a constant police presence.
Surely, just as long as you didn't use them to shave with once they'd been coated in mud and blood, the risk of side effects would be minimal?
I have discovered that I don't mind at all having to walk thru mud when I don't have to worry about getting footwear a mess or ruined. When I'm barefoot I catch myself just walking thru it & then realizing how little it matters. Mud, water, dry dirt, fresh cut grass.... it's all good!
