When the Queens Park Dog Park was designed, after the demolition of the old Queens Park Swimming Pool, provision was made for a new Car Park. It is situated in The Avenue, between the Queens Park Dog Park and the High School. It's quite a deep parking area, providing convenient daytime parking for visitors to all sections of Queens Park as well as the High School.
However, it's quite a lonely, dark area at night, in spite of the floodlight on a tall pole that lights up the Dog Park on the south-western corner. Various people have in the past decided to sit in their cars there after dark. This is not very sensible, considering how lonely a place it is.
One local resident took on the task of warning these people of the dangers of hijacking. Some took the advice to heart and drove off elsewhere. Others were there for less reputable purposes and preferred to stay. Until their car's numberplates were recorded with a flash on the resident's camera, with the parting advice that they could find these shots on Facebook.
A resident has installed a CCTV camera that overlooks the area, and is to be congratulated for this. Nobody wants dodgy goings-on in a car park right next to a High School.
Now the only tjorries that park in that car park after dark are (mostly) SAP and security company vehicles.
