Comet Ping Pong, the new pizza joint-cum-table tennis parlor, has installed a Ping Pong table on its sidewalk along Connecticut Avenue.
This apparently doesn’t sit well with Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Frank Winstead.
Winstead went so far as to film a two-minute YouTube video of the offending Ping Pong table. In the first part of the video, he films from across the street at night, while two competitors trade forehands. Over the action, he superimposes several questions. Among them:
» “Traffic hazard?”
» “Is this safe on a sidewalk?”
» “Does ball go in traffic, often?”
The next part of the video depicts said table during the day and without players using it.
His efforts have earned him the derision of at least one local blogger, on the Grammarpolice.net site.
Blogger Kriston Capps opines: “God deliver us the city in which this is a problem worth attention.”
A comment to the site adds: “Good thing nothing actually dangerous or illegal is happening in our nation’s capital today.”
Another says: “The real issue here is that there’s a very slight slope to the sidewalk on that block, causing an unfair advantage to the player on the south (or uphill) side of the table.”
