Condo Dwellers Keep Egging Park Slope Pooches

courtesy brownstoner.com

For nearly two months now pooch owners at a Park Slope dog run have lived in fear of the eggs that fall from the windows above. At least three eggings have occurred so far behind the newly-built Novo Condominiums, provoked by nighttime dog barking. The identity of the egg tosser remains secret, but probably not for long.

The first incident, reported by Brownstoner, occurred at the year-old dog run behind the Novo Condominiums near the beginning of December. According to the blog “someone living in the 4th Avenue building threw an egg down into the run a couple weeks ago, evidently to show that he/she was not at all pleased with a dog's barking. The incident happened after 8 p.m., when the run is technically supposed to be closed.” The egg-streme measures didn’t result in canine contact, but came close. A second egging was reported on December 29. "Before I knew it— 'whack' on my shoulder and 'splat' on the ground," the victim Ilene Cohen told the NY Post. "I looked up, but I didn't see anybody. They're not going to stand there waving at me and say, 'I'm the jerk who threw it.' "

And last week the blog received word of a third incident: "I was at the Park Slope Dog Run in Washington Park this evening at 7.45pm, and an egg was once again thrown from the condo, and almost hit my husband...My dog barked at the other dog, as dogs do, and suddenly an egg came from the sky landing on the ground next to my husband. He's sure that if it had hit him, he would have been hurt," the target's wife wrote in an email. Victims seem to feel that there is just a single tosser since the eggs “come from the same trajectory." The condominium board has notified the local police precinct and put up flyers about the incidents.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on January 24, 2010 2:05 PM

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Ed

It's Park Slope, just go to the nearest store and look for the only guy buying cheaper non-Organic eggs.

robingee

Wasting food!

Holsum Pan

I guess going downstairs to talk to the people, or even just yelling out your window, "Hey - The park is closed now" is just too much trouble for some people. Unless that was already tried, in which case...

Brandon

"..He's sure that if it had hit him, he would have been hurt"

what an egghead

JenChungsBaby

Too bag egg throwing doesn't work with car alarms, garbage trucks and loose manhole covers that go "thunk thunk" every time a car drives over them. They will however work with loud car radios, as I know firsthand.

JGNY

First, the people who bought in this building knew what they were getting into. It is located in a park with ball fields, hand ball courts and yes a dog run. In fact I was on the committee that helped locate the dog run in that location because the developers, (Boymelgreen)illegally excavated on Parks property. As an FU to them we located the run directly adjacent to the building.

Second, if it is after 8pm you shuold not have your dog in the run, go to Prospect Park. Offleash hours are 9pm to 9am and it is much nicer then the dog run.

TeddyNYC

Just lock it up at 8PM. You have some dog owners who come home late from work and are too cheap to hire a dog walker to walk their dog(s) during the day. I know I would be pissed if I was disturbed by barking in the evening. I don't think I would throw eggs, but I would try to do something about it (like getting the run locked at 8PM).

verbal

Throw bricks instead. Fucking dog people should be put to sleep.

robingee

Yet you're allowed to roam free.

hunter.blatherer

Why don't more people throw eggs at condos? They might even break through the walls of most of the newly built ones.

squatch

the dogs in park slope (or should i call them child surrogates for the barren and those not worthy of impregnating) are 100000000 times more annoying than the strollers. i DREAM of a dog-free city!

JacqueMehoff

which is why I love the hudson river parks by the winter garden, those PEP guys are tough on the dogs on grass rule.

I love seeing the lone dog owner in a group of picnic'ers off to the side because she can't go on the lawn with her dog. but then she's blocking the walkway because she wants to be close to the group.

oh the feeling to walk on grass barefoot and not worry about stepping on dog poop is worth it.

poopmast

The construction of this condo must be piss poor if the owners can hear dogs barking.

JacqueMehoff

a dog run that's open 24 hrs? now I've heard everything.

unbelievable.

NannyState

Keeps pet sweaters shiny.

ozik

Dogs barking after hours is a real problem, and I can sympathize with the misery that would drive someone to throwing eggs. That said, if the dog park was there before the building, then the thrower hasn't got much to complain about during park hours.

The real fear, though, is that it's a very very small step from throwing eggs to throwing poisoned meat or something that could actually hurt someone.