Hoops, oops – whatever …

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Not socially distant basketball and BBQ
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Hoops, oops – whatever …

Courtesy of a Citizen COVID-19 Pandemic Public Safety monitor, Quincy Quarry has likely found out where at least some of the hoopsters who used to frequent the recently renovated basketball court at Flynn Playground at the corner of Elm and South Streets in Quincy Center may have relocated after their socially not distant use was exposéd by Quincy Quarry News not just once but twice.

The new venue for not socially distant hoops: the City of Quincy’s basketball courts adjacent to the intersection of Fenno and Hancock Streets on the grounds of Merrymount Park.

Quincy Police Chief and mayoral brother-in-law Paul “The Beav” Kennan
A City of Quincy headshot

Purportedly a large number of hoopsters have been regularly hitting the courts in the evening but were not practicing social distancing.

While admittedly once a complaint was lodged by the Citizen COVID-19 Pandemic Public Health monitor, City of Quincy officials quickly responded that steps were in the works to address this obvious public health threat, including plans by the City Commissioner responsible for the operation of parks and recreation to take down the hoops as well as that the Chief of Police would be placing the venue under police surveillance, Quincy Quarry can only properly note the following.

Talk, however, is cheap and especially when the Koch Machine is involved.

COVID-19 waits for no one
Image via buzz-caribbean.com

Case in point, in early June, Quincy’s City Hall rolled out with its usual great fanfare its plans to implement both a reservation system for the use of local outdoor tennis and basketball courts as well as would be assigning on site monitors to assure compliance with the reservation system, only to fall short as per the Koch Maladministration’s usual.

Next, reports of the socially not distant use of the Fenno Street basketball courts have been repeatedly noted on locally focused social media.

Former head of the Quincy Police Department motorcycle operations
A Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger file photo

Additionally, the courts are adjacent to two major local roadways regularly as well as often used by police and all manner of other local city personnel, including surely Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch on his daily commute to and from City Hall. 

Then again, perhaps the mayor has trouble looking over the dashboard of his ride.

Further, the courts are basically opposite the site of a busy local funeral home where Quincy Police Department Special Operations unit personnel regularly provide free motorcycle funeral escorts.

Hoops courts left of the baseball diamond on the left, parks HQ to the right of diamond on the right
A Google Maps image

And finally, the basketball courts are on the grounds of Merrymount Park and where the city’s headquarters for its park and recreational operations is located.

In any event, one can only wonder how long it will take before these hoopsters opt to move down Fenno Street to the basketball court at Beechwood Knoll Elementary School as this court court is behind the school and thus out of sight as well as also features similarly hidden as well as convenient parking.

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