Paul McEwan

rental lights

Someone stole the portable lights we rented for our kid’s football team. Now they can only practice until dark. Not long and getting shorter.

While I’m on the subject of stealing from kids: My son can not collect bottles for extra money like I did as a kid. Someone always steals them. They come into our back gate and take all of his carefully sorted stash.

I can almost understand the latter. Someone needs the bottles more than my kid? They are on the street and need money. I almost accept that. Stealing rental lights from a sports team that has seen cuts from funding I don’t accept. The lights needed a good sized vehicle to haul them away in, a professional tool for cutting the chains and a number of people to heave-ho the darn things to the curb (the same way the parents would heave-ho them into position at every practice).

Stealing the lights from the team took planning by someone with resources. They did not need them.