If you’re a bush or tree in or near Golden Gate Park, you better watch your back.
After dozens of trees were cut down in Golden Gate Park and three beds in the park’s Rose Garden were nearly destroyed, another incident occurred close by last week.
The Chronicle reports that according to Recreation and Park Department spokesman Elton Pon, nine newly planted bushes on Park Presidio Boulevard near Fulton Street were severed at their base.
Whether these incidents are the work of one vandal or several different ones is unknown. But neighbors are understandably troubled by the senseless acts.
“So now, in stead of patrolling to protect ourselves from the people hiding in the bushes, we have to protect the bushes themselves!” wrote one neighbor in an online discussion group.
SFAppeal reports that police are staking out potential targets 24 hours a day with undercover and uniformed cops patrolling more than 40 hot spots in the park.
UPDATE (August 26, 2:38pm): The vandal strikes again? The Chronicle reports that three redwoods were found slashed in Doughboy Meadow earlier this week.
Sarah B.
this is crazy! plus you have to figure the maniac doing this is potentially deadly dangerous, carrying around shears or a hacksaw etc!
This is really distressing. What kind of person/people does/do this kind of thing? It makes me sad.
I’m also starting to see graffitti on trees in the western end of the park. How do you clean spray paint off of trees?!
Acts like this make no sense.