Have you noticed that the picnic tables have been removed in the common area near the Ceramics Club House?.  Over the last few months a group of young adults and teenagers have been engaged in consumption of alcoholic beverages.  It seems like the same bunch will group together on the weekends or a day or two during the week, sometimes out as late as 1 AM.  They will arrive driving through the park with their car stereo loud and park with the car door open to broadcast the sound to everyone.  On more than one occasion, I have measured sound levels with a sound level meter as loud as 90 decibels!

      
                 Sound levels up to 90 db.  (smeter.avi)                                            Trash filled with beer bottles


Some of these young people will drink as many as two 40 ounce bottles of Mickey brand malt liquor.  The next morning bottles will be laying on the ground, stuffed in bushes and  in the trash can.  I have seen some of these people urinating in the bushes, against the fence or on the ground where some of our young children play.  I have seen children removing bottles off the table the next day with disgust.  This problem  has also now extended into the common area near the pool.  The trash can is full of  bottles of  empty liquor bottles and vomit splatters on the ground around the tables (8-26-06).

                     
All bottles above left just after one night.  (Night of the 4th of July) Group didn't leave till 1 AM.
          
Mess left after 2-12-06.   Bottles in bush, trash in parking lot, table and ground vomit-covered.  Would you want to use this table?



When I moved into this park, I was given a 15 page document of the Rules and Regulations of the park.  I had to sign a statement that I understood that I could be evicted from the park for breaking any of the rules.

Section 7.  RECREATIONAL AND OTHER FACILITIES:
Subsection C.



So far, the police have been called four times and the Park Manager has been called by me at least twice.  Others have called the Police and the Park Manager to end the disturbance with various degrees of success.  Just how well are these complaints documented?  If eviction becomes necessary, documentation becomes very important.  Names and dates need to be collected.  On one occasion the Hayward Police just told them to stop without checking ages or recording names.  One call took less than a minute with the offenders pulling out their bottles and continuing to drink after the police leave. What a wasted effort from HPD!