I rather like Nashville's creative solution to dealing with pitbulls causing problems and gay men cavorting with each other in public parks. Well, that is unless gay men start cavorting with pitbulls... Hadn't thought of that one until now...
April 13, 2006
Pit Bulls to Get Own Dog Park
Hamilton Creek Pit Bull Park will keep guys ‘zipped up tight’
Last week, the Metro Parks Department banned pit bulls and “dogs having the characteristic of the pit bull breed” from Metro’s three dog parks.
But in response to an outcry from pit bull owners who want a place where their dogs can run without leashes, Metro Parks will establish a new “pit bull park” at Hamilton Creek Park on the shores of Percy Priest Lake.
In recent years Hamilton Creek has been notorious as a sexual liaison and pickup spot for men. Last year hundreds of citations were issued at Hamilton Creek, most for indecent exposure after men flashed undercover police officers.
Metro Council member Michael Craddock and others concerned about the issue even have suggested tree-mounted security cameras throughout the park to deter sexual activity, a proposal that garnered the opposition of privacy advocates and the ACLU.
But parks director Roy Wilson says that the pit bull dog park neatly uses one problem to solve another.