Dead Dog, Television Found In Prospect Park Lake

Thankfully it's been a little while since a dead animal, or its remains, have popped up over at the lake in Prospect Park. Unfortunately, that short streak is now over—yesterday a dead dog was found in the lake by a maintenance worker, the latest victim at what the Brooklyn Paper is now calling "a watery graveyard."

The dog's carcass wasn't in good shape, and officials believe it may have gone missing last winter and fallen through the ice (which, while sad, is better than santeria or butchery). The dog was scooped out of the water in a crate, and Prospect Park spokesman Eugene Patron says, “At first [the maintenance worker] wasn’t sure if it was a dog or a possum—it was that badly decomposed."

Previously severed chicken heads, animal guts, turtle remains and other gruesome discoveries were made lake-side, and last month one of the local swans died after a swan-on-swan violent attack. But as WPIX found out during a recent report, it's not only the living that meet their end there—one of their reporters recently found a television set bobbing in the water. He "removed the TV himself and took it to Central Park, wondering if officials would tolerate a TV floating in one of Manhattan's picturesque ponds."

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By Jen Carlson in News on April 23, 2010 11:59 AM

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xgeyiph772

Just what the park's creators had in mind when they built the lake. TVs and dead dogs. Niiiicccee.

horseplay

I hope they take care of this situation. I can imagine this is scaring tourists out of the city

Cannibal

HEY THIS IS AN IMPORTANT INDIE ART INSTALLATION, I WORKED VERY HARD ON IT, PLEASE LEAVE IT ALONE!!!

NEW YORK FIEND

Nice one Cannibal! Saw this on PIX11 since they first mentioned it a while back. At this point, I don't believe the city cares to do much about it. Adrian Benepe has a few quality projects underway, but send out a crew with Pearl the Squirrel over there and "do work."

chuzzlewit

bam

Mr. Shankly

win

matty

lol

BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

I remember doing the Chase corporate run in Central Park years ago...thinking that the money was going to help wee small children with cancer or something like that.

Afterwards I found out the money goes to maintain Central Park. As if the rich folks who live around it needed a nicer park!

I know....I have issues

theevilone

Central Park also benefits from having the Central Park Conservancy.

http://www.centralparknyc.org/about/

hotstepper

oh how sad, is your park not as respected as Central Park? join the friggin' club.

my local park in Queens has neglected crumbling stairs and pathways with a healthy sprinkling of litter, ancient car parts, and stinky fish heads. get on it WPIX.

ForrestWhitaker

Hey, atleast you don't have little assholes running around your park and starting fires.

http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/en/community-news/197-2010/1209-five-fires-intentionally-set-in-inwood-hill-park.html