Missing Basketball Hoop

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

A 10 foot tall basketball hoop in its 300 pound water filled base has disappeared out of a driveway on E17th Street in broad daylight (between 3-4pm yesterday). It must have been quite a sight to see it rolling down the street somewhere in the vicinity of Ditmas and Dorchester, so the neighbor hopes someone will have spotted it and may know of its new location? Or at least the direction it was heading in …

UPDATE: The basketball hoop is home. ”My husband drove around and found our hoop on E 19 between Cortelyou and Dorchester. He grabbed a friend and rolled it home where we are chaining it up and painting our name and address on it.”

Anyone care to dispute that the neighborhood seems to need more basketball hoops and places to play sports?

- Liena

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Jamie

Someone has a serious basketball jones. Good luck getting it back.
http://digitality.pip.verisignlabs.com Digitality

I saw it being rolled home this afternoon. Glad they got it back!
Barbara

Just for clarification — no dispute: Are you saying that a basketball hoop’s having been stolen from someone’s backyard suggests that there are not enough sports facilities in Flatbush and should be a reason for getting more in? And by analogy, if my car is stolen, would that suggest that there are not enough cars for the residents of Flatbush? What about bicycles? And potted plants?
rubyo

So was it found set up somewhere or just abandoned (as if the thief/thieves had given up on schlepping such a thing? Just curious.
E 19 Resident

I hope that the family is sure that hoop on E19th is definitely their own. It had been there since Friday night at least. Every year on the block some one puts out a hoop. It is an asset to the community (though not if it was in fact a stolen).
Ms. Inappropriate

I could use a car.

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