Vandals ripped the locks off of the bathroom doors at Oaks Common Park sometime Saturday night or Sunday in a continued problem for the park located on Martin Luther King Drive in Flomaton.
Flomaton Police Chief Chance Thompson said officers have responded to multiple reports of vandalism at the park. The bathroom doors had been locked after vandals ripped the sink off the wall in one of the bathrooms.
Chief Thompson asks if anyone has any information about who damaged the doors or who is responsible for previous vandalism they call the Flomaton Police Department at 251-296-5811 or their nearest law enforcement agency.
Flomaton Councilwoman Lillian Dean said she received a telephone call from Emma Page about 4:30 or 5 p.m. Sunday after she found the damaged doors.
“Why?” Dean asked. “I just don't understand. I have a feeling it's not people from this neighborhood. It's plain old meanness. That's all I can say.”
Dean has requested her fellow council members install surveillance cameras at the park and said they keep telling her to wait until after the new budget.
“We will have spent up the budget trying to keep the park up,” she said. “I don't know what to say. We tried to create something for the neighborhood and it keeps getting torn up. Why would you do it?”
Dean said the bathroom doors were locked because of the previous vandalism. She also said she is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people responsible.
