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July 18, 2005
The Pickering Problem
Pickering Square, located in downtown Bangor, has a problem. It's a nice place to hold public events, have your lunch, or just sit and talk. It's also a good place to learn new profanity, breathe cigarette smoke and watch goth wannabees play hacky sack.
The square has an issue with loitering.
It used to be that the pint-sized campers at the Maine Discovery Museum could picnic in Pickering Square. The public square in downtown Bangor, after all, is in the museum's back yard and there are benches and plenty of room to run off all that youthful energy.I recently saw a story on Channel 2 about this problem. Some of those who use the square were interviewed, and claimed they only hung out there because there was nothing else to do in Bangor and one demanded the city build them a rec center.But this summer there isn't a tyke in sight, except for the line of campers who briefly pass by the square en route to a cleaner and more palatable picnic spot across Washington Street.
Maybe it's the hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground, or the discarded beer bottles and condoms in the bushes. Maybe one too many children asked the meaning of the dirty words carved into the wooden benches. Of course, it could be the especially colorful language spewing from the mouths of the mostly juveniles and young adults who appear to have staked a claim to the square.
Nothing else to do in Bangor? True, the city is limited in its entertainment options, but I have a novel idea for these teenagers. How about getting a job? I know I sound like a curmudgeon here, but I have little patience for malcontents who make a perfectly good part of Bangor uninhabitable for others.
The answer suggested in the Bangor Daily is a sound one - start using the square and forcing the bad element out. It's a good start, but given the number of senior citizens and kids that could use the square but are scared away by the teens, more needs to be done.
I'm thinking arrests and work details, but that's just me.
Posted by slublog at July 18, 2005 12:00 AM
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