The people who drive around in their pick-up truck, brazenly dumping tires in the Lower Ninth Ward, at least try to put them on vacant lots or unwanted places so as to avoid a concerned home owner yelling at them. I saw that happen once, a neighbor told the dumpers to pick their tires up and go dump them somewhere else, and they did. I thought that was brave.
Anyway, the Port of New Orleans put these yellow poles in a couple of years ago, I think to stop my neighbor from parking his shipping containers on their land. Not sure what other purpose the poles were supposed to serve. And it looks like the tire dumpers had fun tossing their tires onto this pole. Lots of people love dumping things at this corner of Delery Playground, which is clearly considered no one's property. I've seen many couches and mattresses dumped there to rot, but the dead dog was the worst thing I've seen. Another neighbor got it all on film and it made the news, but they interviewed the guy who shot and dumped the dog, and he seemed to take it as an opportunity to explain that he shot it because it was a bad dog. He seemed like a nice, frazzled old man. He didn't apologize for using the kid's playground as a place to toss a dead animal off his truck tailgate, even though there are a hundred vacant lots in the Lower Ninth where he could have dumped a body to decompose without bringing it to the playground. Why did he think that was a thing to do? Stupid. He was a grown man who should have known better. You don't need to be educated to know better than that.
I think getting those street-facing cameras had a big part to play in why my neighbors moved away. I think they couldn't reconcile the nice neighbors we see all day with the goings-on in the playground at night.
The playground is pretty great as a playground but adults use it at night as a different kind of playground. They're not hurting anybody, but they do litter. Needles and condoms. So the dumped tires are just lagniappe.