You were a wonderful neighbor!! Thanks for all you did. Shame on the people at the party for their behavior - they owe you an apology. Hope what happened to you doesn't keep anyone from doing the right thing and also helping out their community when its needed. Hopefully good deeds will be contagious:)

Nice mitzvah, Bruce, whether the birthday party people thought so or not! I have a dog and you know going in that cleaning up after it is part of the deal. C'mon folks, it can be disgusting but it's really not that hard, and it certainly should not be someone else's job to clear up after your dog!

Good for you Bruce for doing the right thing! What exactly was the complaint to the police? couldn't those people see that you were cleaning up?

THANK YOU! I take my daughter to that playground frequently and I would have been so upset if she had played in dog poop. Had I been there on Saturday I would have gladly helped you clean up. I'm shocked that someone would call the police on you! I hope you get an apology.

For what it's worth, cleaning the playground with Simple Green made it SAFER for any child with a peanut/tree nut allergy. Ignorance of the facts is not, it seems, a reason to keep your mouth closed. Let alone a thank you from any of them!

No good deed shall go unpunished.

Nothing was on anything we were using.Your reaction was out of control and you did not have the right to pour anything on the equipment while our kids were on them. I think any parent would agree with that too. Your child is probably the one who got it on what she was using from her own shoes!You told a tale to justify what you did. You forgot the mention the other families there that left being frightened of you . You only needed to take care of your child and not make up a story that involved wasting police and fire dept time. Also making a child cry at her own party. Shame on you!!!

I was also at the party, you also failed to mention that we asked you to wait until the party was over to pour a cleaner on it. We explained to you that some of the children at the party had severe allergies! You were extremely hostile and ignorant. As I recall you told us to call the police as we were kindly asking you to wait. You should feel proud of yourself for making a little girl cry on her 6th birthday!

Hi Bruce why do you now want us to Call or email you? You don't want "a pat on the back" but apparently you do what's the point of this whole discussion if what you did you think was such a good deed? You would have let it go... But no you need to post a story on our side of what happened, you stormed through the pavilion with a shovel and cleaning supplies which as any concerned parent would be a little frightened and then proceed to ask for help to clean the equipment I nor noone knows what is in your cleaner several children there had allergies and had epi pens and we Simply asked you to wait so the children could play, earlier in the day when we got there we had already cleaned up the dog poop and it was done end of discussion. But yea did you ruin a 6yr old party yrs you did why? Because there was a crazy man there causing a scene and police and fighfighters had to be called and really if you feel the need for us to "call" you and take it privately I can :)

Bridget and Bruce
Once again you took the opportunity to misrepresent a story. For one, I never spoke directly to any child as you indicated. Bruce told us he was the "father of children" when he approached us. After his crazy behavior I remarked I felt sorry for his children for his behavior. I called him a freak to his face. At that time no one was even aware he had children there.I also never accused your child of spreading world wide feces, just simply acknowledged that possibly whatever she stepped in was passed onto something, but there was nothing on anything in the park visable to anyone who had been there,especially not to the extent that you posted. I have heard of literary freedom, but you are using this site to boast about your so called heroics that ended up being scary to anyone not knowing you or what your true intent was. You handled this so poorly,that is why people reacted the way they did.

I also find it odd that you took the time to post beautiful pictures of the park that day, but not one of the feces you claim were covering every area of the park, playground and walls . How strange that all of the other families there did not see this . Now those pics would have made a story

You are assuming the children with allergies had a peanut allergy, that couldn't be farther from the truth. Children and adults have allergies to many other things. There was no need for us to gain a permit for the park because parks & rec told us it was not needed unless we wanted to use the bathroom facilities. You can try to paint this picture any way you want but every adult at that party realized we were dealing with an unstable person because of the way you were acting. Other parents that were not at the party didn't want to put their kids on the equipment with the chemicals either. Any child or adult could have gotten that cleaning solution in their eyes. You don't care about that, you were too concerned with other things. You didn't even see the so called feces on the equipment yourself, you were asking your child to show you. You didn't see it because we already cleaned it off. We tried to explain this over and over but you didn't want to listen, you were too worried about making a scene and writing a story that would make you look like some martyr. Try to stand back and listen to people once in a while.

I am that mother and I never said My son had a peanut allergy. Why are you so willing to talk to us now but you were not then. My child has allergies to different detergents among numerous other things, peanuts not being one of them. If you were in my position you would have been just as upset as myself. I had to watch my child at the age of 2 get 40 needles in his back to find out what he is allergic to and now he has to carry an epi pen because of them. One of my worst nightmares would be having to use that pen on him. So as a parent yourself I'm sure you can see why I would be concerned when someone I don't know is acting irrationally and putting cleaning products on a playground. If you wanted to clean it yourself you could have waited for the fire department to come first. The fire department only came because the police called them. I hope the next time you decide to save the world by cleaning off a playground you listen to the other parents that are around and not your own ego.

How come no response to the pics confirming all of the feces that you claim would have made everyone sick?Again, it was an isolated incident that unfortunately involved your child getting poop on her. I admit that was awful for her. But your outrageous behavior put fear in other" parents of children".Why can't you understand that? Why no pics of poop? You only documented how you cleared the playground There was no feces anywhere in sight. You have gone into great detail about your version of the events, that I guess help you justify, in your mind, about how you handled things that affected many people there that day. You are a journalist who went out of your way to have a great STORY to tell. So why only pics of nothing??? Obviously you know many people in the community, since you have taken the time to mention connections. So of course they believed you. It's a shame you wrote fiction instead of fact. Just remember how you made strangers and children afraid of you .I don't care what your intention was. You were pouring chemicals on a slide while a child of ours was on it. Explain how you were helping us??? You only needed to take care of your child. You had no reason to come to the area that we were in. The only health issue was the one you created to those of us with asthma and allergies. You didn't take the time to make sure that we would not be harmed.

Now this is an interesting story havent read one recently that caught my attention until tonight. i have never heard of anyone having allergies to cleaness. It is what is wrong with that area over there. People keep letting the dirt build up. sounds to me the party animals needed to go back to their farm yards and leave the community where people want to live without the trash.

It's incredible that you could write such a comment unless you are a personal friend of Bruce's. There were no party animals. A 93 year old grandmother and family of a loving 6 year old. We took the time to canvas the area and clean up when we arrived to assure a nice time. Having a strange man go out of his way to come to the other side of the park and stretch the truth about an isolated incident the unfortunately involved his child, had nothing to do with the bizarre behavior that took place afterwards. We also found some dog poop on the ground on our arrival and took the time to clean the area. There was nothing on anything else there. Don't act like this was just a good deed that was not being appreciated, because it was anything but. There was a lot of broken glass that we found to be a concern and also tried to clean up. But we didn't feel it necessary to cause panic in others there, just took care of it

i dont know that man. and it seems to me anyone had the right to do whatever on that play yard because its not yours. its public property.

Dear Al, I have lived in this community for 15 years and I take pride in it. You my friend have no idea what you are talking about. I rented this facility three weeks ago myself and I was told the same thing. I in fact paid to have my party there, but if you don't believe what I said you can call the office of Parks & Rec yourself. You need to grow up and mind your own business and stop resorting to talking to people like trash. You seem to be the only trash here. There were no "party animals" just family and friends of a beautiful little 6 year old girl who will never be able to forget what was supposed to be a special day.

You are right. it is public property that others were tying to enjoy. There is also a proper way to handle things. We are the ones who were cleaning an area prior to using. Had you been there, I think you would have been concerned about the way some strange man ran around in between other children in an area that was not dirty. No one has the right to put chemicals of any kind while children are on it.

Yes, "al walker" (aka bruce), anyone has the right to do what they want at the PUBLIC park, such as have a birthday party. Im so sorry that you are a delusional person that keeps trying to justify ruining a small childs party, ill pray for you. Im also sorry that anyone would read you columns, let alone elect you to be our editor of the patch. I will never read or believe anything on this site in the future. This site is considered a joke to me. How do you justify yourself when you have a party of at least 15 adults who disagree with you? Get a day job. God bless.

Only a farm animal himself would call others something so offensive and iggnorant.

Oh, so you cleaned the poop, but didn't see it?! Which is it? Was there crap there or not?

And I guess this ruined the whole party? Your child now needs psychiatric treatment, for something that was probably a twenty minute ordeal because a man came over, and started scrubbing a swing set? Get real. I doubt he made your kids cry so much as your outrageous reactions to it. Children respond to their parents much more than strangers.

I can tell you, because I am a Veterinary Technician, that your children, devoid of peanut and dog crap allergies, have much deeper concerns when it comes to animal feces. Toxicariasis, Leptosporosis, intestinal parasites and E. Coli are just a few. All extremely dangerous- most especially to children. Perhaps he should have waited until your child contracted one of those before cleaning the equipment. THAT would have been the more correct course of action, surely.

And who cares the product he used? He could have called proper authorities about the feces concern, the park could have been closed down while they arranged to have the equipment cleaned by much more harsh chemicals. That would have REALLY been a party pooper...

To even come on here and suggest that his motives weren't of concern is completely ridiculous and totally makes your arguments void in anyone's eyes. Cause no one is going to go buy the supplies and waste their time with hostile parents just to ruin a party as you make it seem.

Al I feel sorry for you. If your answer to a 6 year old crying from being frightened is "toughen up" you are more disturbed than Bruce!

Jenny, did he call you guys psychos or lunatics? I think it would be best to watch your language. They take that kind of stuff seriously on the Internet anymore. Calling names could send a fragile person over the edge. Which luckily Bruce isn't, but it is still frowned upon by authorities. Don't bother deleting that, I took it upon myself to take a picture...:) YOU'RE WELCOME.

Ok vet! Thanks for your input, were you there? No one has any business to comment unless you were present.

Cause a party of 15 wouldn't coax to eachother into a misplaced outrage and then vouch for eachother afterward. That never happens. :/

No one is questioning motives it was his actions. Acing like a crazy person and interrupting a child's party is not something anyone should be doing. We told him we already cleaned the area, he didn't need to continue. End of story.

You cleaned it, or didn't see the crap?! Which is it, I'm confused.

And a party of 15 wouldn't whip eachother into a misplaced outrage toward someone who was obviously crazy for trying to clean toxins from children's equipment and then all vouch for eachother afterward. Nope, couldn't happen. :/

Samantha, again, where you present? Clearly not. Yes actually, a party of 15's voice is heard louder than 1. Ever witnessed a court room. Really? Bye.

the other thing that bothers me here is the fact that someone claims to have cleaned the play yard and then claims that bruce kid ran through dog poop during the party. so did the party animals bring a dog to the shin dig and let it poop and not clean it up. or are they lying about cleaning the play yard to begin with. just trying to clear the storys that are floating around.

There's a difference between a Veterinary Technician and a "Vet". Can you read?

You're not making yourself look very believable, calling people psychos, blaming children for stepping in dog feces and then telling that same child that her father is a psycho.

And how in blue blazes do you know if I was there or not?!

At the end of the day I am able to sleep at night, I don't need to go home and write a fabricated story to try to make me feel better about my actions. Can't say the same for others.

i think i would rather look stupid then be known as unclean and allow my children to play in poop.

Btw im at arbor manor playing in poop! Help bruce!

;)))))))))

Yup pack up!

Ok, Bruce is so psychotic he's on here pretending to be two fabricated people. Seriously, conspiracy theories much? Guys, people may think the wrong thing.

Not the case. Look me up. I exist. I was born and grew up in Baltimore and now reside in Glen Burnie, I work in Lutherville and chose to hang in Severna Park and Arbutus. Calm down on the conspiracy theories. As far as Al being the same person as Bruce- you can see a clear difference in the typing between Bruce and Al. Stop thinking too much.

Again, with the names... Stupid? Careful now.

Oh Bruce wouldn't make up a story no, what would he have to gain from it? Hmm let's see, make up a story that is so far from the truth that it gets lots of clicks on the site to increase my advertising revenue. GENIIUS!

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so you are saying this whole thing is made up. and there was no poop at all.

Point blank- the story seems pretty clear. He came in concerned, and you acted aggressively..

This is a story of two people taking precautions without asking questions, only one person didn't act aggressively about it.

man i really need to not drink and read the patch at the same time.

Please, people. No profanity. Mature people can talk reasonably. Messages that contain profanity or libelous comments will be deleted for violating Patch terms of service.

Sorry.

How do you get a picture!?

And they say they cleaned up the poop, but didn't want cleaner used. Just wiping excrement up with a wet nap doesn't "clean" it there are still bacteria and contaminates left behind.

You would just be wiping up the brown visible aspect. You need a chemical to clean it, simple green, bleach and kennelsol are all great ways to clean feces. He was also right to have a fire department come a half hour later because in order to actually CLEAN those contaminates, the cleaner has to sit on there wet for at least 10 minutes.. A little wet nap wouldn't have killed all of the contaminates even an antibacterial wet wipe because the surface then dries too quickly. These are all precautions we take in a hospital to help stop the spread of disease. The amount of time the cleaner sits on the feces is important in killing all the contaminates.

Again you are making assumptions. You were not there so no comment from you is necessary. I'm thru explaining, Bruce knows what he did and how he acted. This is between him and the family of this young girl.

This has become so far from the truth. Everyone has taken their own spin on things. This needs to stop.Accusations are being made about some circumstances that never even took place. The families involved know what the truth is. It's pointless for others who weren't there to take this to another level.No one brought a dog, and the circumstances with his daughter were isolated and did not have to involve the extreme reaction that he took. It was all so uncessary. Makes you question true motives behind a possible story. We are finished with this.

its not finished because you havent explained what really took place. your storys do not add up. ok so you didnt bring a dog. that means you never cleaned the play yard. you lied.

Well, he didn't set out to clean crap expecting terrible aggressive reactions, so how could this all have been premeditated? From what I understand you guys were in such a frenzy one of you almost got arrested. And Bruce didn't. I guess policemen lied about what they saw, and his daughter lied about what was said to her?

From what I understand, you were asked to help, you didn't and then began pestering him, and continuing to after he asked to be left alone. As a father, I know Bruce would never use cleaner with children still on the set, so don't spin that fabrication. Because if that were true, I'm sure you would have been quick to tell the authorities that and they would have certainly had something to say.

Point blank- the police didn't find anything wrong with what Bruce was doing. And they found something wrong with your behavior. You can spin it anyway you want. Bruce wasn't doing anything wrong by pulling out scrub brushes and cleaning crap, at all. No one who was important had one problem with his actions or behavior. He didn't approach you, curse or yell at you, or make bodily harm implicit with his actions. So why are you arguing? Why was it such a huge deal that he evidently came into a park, which he's allowed to do, and start cleaning some equipment? Because all the sudden for a couple minutes your child had to stop playing on the damn monkey bars? Wow. I hate to see your reaction when your child really gets traumatized by the crap storm we all call life. I wonder how Bruce's daughter feels after seeing a bunch of people yell and curse at him, call him crazy, and nearly threaten physical harm to the point authorities had to be called?

Any other parent would have been thrilled even if they didn't see the crap. Which he has stated was still there. If you had cared to volunteer, you would have seen that. If you cleaned the crap on the ground and saw it was smushed, then you should have been smart enough to know that the probability of it getting spread onto the set was very high. That's just called logic, smushed crap equals a crappy shoe on a foot that is used to climb on the set.

But you all acted like a jerk almost got into trouble and now need to make Excuses for your over the top behavior.

No one had to be there to see what happened here, all it actually takes is one call to the police station to see what THEY had to say about the whole ordeal... I took the liberty of doing that, you can stop explaining now. You're welcome.

As an outside observer, I see two things: how apt the moniker 'disturbed resident' actually is, and how one side's credibility vanishes with the refusal to discuss things reasonably under their own name. Seems like only one side has anything to hide. If you are unwilling to put your own name on your opinion, how much weight can it carry with the general public? By the way, who knew the Arbutus Patch was such a hotbed of activity?

What is the matter with you people??? It sounds like you are ALL delusional! Now, PLEASE, shake hands and play nice.