Our house was vadalized!!

I am so very sorry someone vandalized your home, I know just how you are feeling, a few years ago we had someone vandalize our cars, first it started with someone just egging our cars, then one morning we got up and we were sitting at the table eating breakfast and noticed a policeman in our driveway standing behind our Blazer, I go out and noticed that someone had gone threw our neighborhood shooting out car windows and egging, our Blazer had the back window shot out and the inside egged! It was a few weeks later I watched two teens walking through our neighborhood with a BB gun aiming at houses, I called the police and they came and caught them and since then the car vandalizm stopped, Keep your eyes open for anyone out of place and call your police, the sick thing is they usually will hit twice, not right away but will come back because they think it is an easy target, as for why Kids do this? I am not sure, but it is a sad thing for them to think hurting and destroying others things is such fun is a very sick thing.
 
I'm so sorry that your house was vandalized, and I know we all feel upset for you, but here is another perspective.

When I was in high school, a bunch of kids in my neighborhood would cause minor trouble like this frequently. They would soap cars and I think slash tires and spray paint sides of houses(I only heard secondhand so I am not really sure). One guy in the neighborhood was so pissed he decided to take matters into his own hands. He hid behind bushes near his house for a couple of weeks until the kids came into that area. I'm not really sure what happened, but he ended up seriously and critically beating one kid with a baseball bat. The kid ended up with hundreds of stitches, massive facial scarring, and brain damage. Apparently he wasn't even really involved but was just on the tail end of this group. The guy who administered the beating (younger guy with preschool children) ended up in prison for years.

This doesn't excuse what the kids were doing BUT it does give one pause about taking matters into one's own hands, as tempting as that might be. I mean, kids can be stupid and get involved in stupid things to impress their friends. And when we consider property, it can be fixed or replaced. But we can't get our loved ones back if they end up acting out of anger.

I guess I felt compelled to post since everyone seems to advocate taking matters into one's own hands. I realize we're just supporting you but I hope the situation doesn't escalate. And I AM really sorry this happened to you and I imagine you feel so violated. I have read that the BEST protection is a really big dog with a really big bark!

Hope it works out,
Marie
 
Catherine, so sorry this happened. Things like this can leave us feeling totally violated.

Sparrow

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow - what a ride!’ — Peter Sage
 
Oh trust me we wouldn't dare do that!! The comments about beating the crap out of anyone were mainly if someone was to be physically threatning to me or DH or my dogs(which aren't big at all) for that matter. I would however like to scare the crap out of these pesky teens!! Thanks for the insight!!


Catherine

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I know, I didn't think you'd actually do anything like that, I just felt compelled to remind people about consequences. :) That was always such an awful story to me, you know? Such a useless, useless waste of several lives.

Anyway, I hope it works out. Do you have motion sensor lights outside your house? They might work as a deterrent...
 
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