Hoons strike again
Fury as touch fields, walls are vandalised
TWO fields at Labrador Touch Association’s football grounds have been vandalised by hoons and walls spraypainted in black graffiti.
The separate attacks happened early in the week.
Hoons on Monday left large car tyre marks on two fields at the club on Jacob Drive, the second time in two months they have been targeted.
The hoons even took out a bollard to get on to the fields.
It comes a month after a cricket pitch at Palm Beach was ripped up by celebrating Aussie rules players.
Labrador Touch Association secretary Margaret Fox said the incidents were “very, very frustrating and disappointing”.
“Council have closed the fields because of the hooning,” she said. “They tried to tidy it up and put some top dressing down but you can still see the doughnut marks. We can’t use it at all.”
Ms Fox said trial games had to be cut from 40 minutes to 30 so everyone could play.
Vandals, believed to be unrelated to the hooning, were also behind a number of walls being covered in ugly graffiti.
Ms Fox said at least two people in a group of 10 had been caught on the CCTV spray painting.
She said the graffiti happened on the same night nearly $5 million of motorhomes were destroyed across the road. It is unknown whether the two incidents are linked.
“I can’t describe it, it’s everywhere,” Ms Fox said of the graffiti. “We’ve logged the graffiti with council (to clean up).”
A Gold Coast City Council spokeswoman said 54 sq m would need to be painted to get rid of the graffiti.
“We are hoping to have the grounds open late next week dependent on weather conditions.”
Ms Fox has asked police to investigate.