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, my neighbor John 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 our neighbor (not John) 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, the dog owner's wife explained it to the news like it was some sort of mixup, neighbors killing each others' dogs. The dog owner/dumper didn't speak to the news, so 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 instead. Why did he think taking it to the playground 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. It wasn't just lazy, it was hostile; he had to load the very big dog into his truck bed and drive it to the playground to get rid of it.
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 bad neighbors like the dog killer, and 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.