City vs. lawn chairs

For more than a decade, visitors to the Sepulveda Basin Dog Park have brought lawn chairs to sit on as they watched their pets frolic on the grassy field, then left behind the plastic seats for others to use. C.J. Lin in the Daily News.

So they were angered and dismayed when they arrived last week to find that a city maintenance worker had deliberately mowed over about two dozen chairs, leaving behind a trail of broken parts and plastic shards.

"The park has been in existence for 14 years and we've always done this," said Michael S. Hyams, who frequents the Encino park six days a week and arrived Friday morning to scattered debris. "They've never mowed over all the chairs, and they can't all of a sudden start now."