Justice Insider: Parks lawn damage is new turf for some

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When the Justice Insider comes across the word turf in the course of a days work, it usually is preceded by gang or followed by war.

Not this time.

A Dublin parks employee told police on July 8 that someone had turfed the lawn by the dumpster at Emerald Field Park, according to a report. Apparently, this is a continuing problem. The parks employee requested extra police patrols after hours.

The Insider will admit to having no idea what turfing is, imagining a diabolically giggling grass thief making off with strips of rolled sod under each arm. But the grass was damaged, not stolen.

The Internet opened our eyes to the practice of turfing, which amounts to trashing a lawn with a vehicle. The Insider knew this practice as doing doughnuts.

Perhaps its a generational thing.

In addition to being a pastime for teenage rapscallions, turfing is British slang for forcing someone to leave a place. As in:

The intoxicated teen, angry to be turfed out of the bar for underage drinking, turfed the establishments lawn.

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Justice Insider: Parks lawn damage is new turf for some