A man playing basketball in a Kitchener park amid the coronavirus pandemic was fined $750 over the weekend. A spokesperson for the city said a group of people were playing basketball in McLennan Park on Saturday when a bylaw officer asked them to stop.
Most did but one refused after several attempts were made to ask him to stop and was issued a fine. “I’m angry,” Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic said on Twitter. “When a sports field or basketball court is closed by @ONgov emergency order due to #covid19wr, it means its closed. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “People, your bad choices cost people their lives.