9 or 10 shot at splash pad in Rochester Hills, Michigan

Lookner on X ^

[Drew68]

More likely, just random, senseless gangland stuff.

My first assumption was "dispute between teens" but this is a very white neighborhood (see my post above) and apparently the shooter just shot randomly into the crowd from the parking lot.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Suburban Detroit.
The citizens of Detroit have done to their city what Pontiac and his Ottawas could not do back in 1764.

[BudgieRamone]

Sprayers, sprinklers, fountains, The one at the Hoover Met in Hoover AL is awesome. its also very crowded, but the kids enjoy it.

[Mozzafiato]

More likely, just random, senseless gangland stuff.

Not in that neighborhood.

[bella1]

In the not too distant past, Rochester Hills was upper middle class/mildly rich.

[higgmeister]

I didn't know what a splash pad was either and I'm just north of the Atlanta beltway.   I was guessing it was slang for some wealthy ultramodern palatial home that makes a big splash.

[steve86]

Is it that they’re named differently in different places or simply don’t exist? I think mostly the latter. You are going to find them more in municipal areas that spend money on parks and recreation and have a fair number of children like here.

[steve86]

You’d think most grandparents would have taken their grandkids to splash parks if they existed in the area...

[steve86]

Whoops, I used the local name “splash parks” instead of pad.

[dfwgator]

Old School Splash Pad...

[desertsolitaire]

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[higgmeister]

You are going to find them more in municipal areas that spend money on parks and recreation and have a fair number of children like here.

I don't think that's it.   As I mentioned I'm in the Atlanta metro area not far from Truist Park where the Braves play and if I leave through the back way out of my subdivision, I can turn right, and then right again into the entrance to Six Flags White Water | Georgia's Most Thrilling Water Park.   That must be why I didn't know what a splash pad was.

But actually I think as you alluded to, that is not what it would be called down here.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Probably not.

[steve86]

I don’t understand what you’re saying. Since splash (pads)/parks typically are constructed under the city parks and recreation budget (unless they’re private), of course you aren’t going g to find as many in stagnant areas with few young families and lower tax base.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ve never heard of a “splash pad,” either. Is that a water park?

[steve86]

A teeny-tiny one.

[Paladin2]

“I’d love to be from Barrow.”

I dunno, do you support that murky woman?

[x]

I thought this might be a story about golf.

If I don’t understand the headline the story is usually about golf.

[steve86]

In my area I think city planners and other officialdom call them ...pads and ordinary people call them ...parks.

[napscoordinator]

The area is 89 percent white. Less then 3 percent black.