Solaris
12-16-2006, 12:47 PM
Yep. Someone late last night thought it would be cute to break some of our front yard decorations. They broke off some of the "light up" candycanes lining the walk, ripped the tail off a windcatcher I had hanging from a tree, and ripped down a 3-D lit star we had hanging from another tree.
You know, it takes a pretty sick person to vandalize decorations.
We suspect it may be related to our contrary tenant (at our old house), either him or his teenaged son and/or friends. Of course we have no proof. Had it been teenagers "pranking" other people around us would've been hit, too, and so far as we could tell by driving around, no one else's decorations were touched. Kids on a random rampage will go after all they can, not just one specific house.
I *am* glad that that was all that was broken... but it's a rather disheartening thing to wake up to in the morning.
We know it occured sometime after midnight, because Meg and Charlie (her bf) were watching Finn while we went out to a late dinner, and the decorations were fine when we got home around midnight. I remember the dogs barking at one point after we'd gone to bed, but I didn't get up to check because I was so sleepy. I suspect that the rest of the decorations might have gotten trashed as well, but that when the dogs started barking, whoever it was ran off, being afraid that the barking would wake us up to go look.
Anyway, we've got to clean up the mess, and fix what we can. Sigh. Such a sad, sick person, doing something like that. There's a pettyness of the soul there, and a complete disregard for the spirit of the season. I just hope that whoever it was will be content to leave it at that.
And yes, I'm filing a police report on it. Nothing that the cops can really do... but if we do have further problems later on, at least we've started documentation on it.
You know, it takes a pretty sick person to vandalize decorations.
We suspect it may be related to our contrary tenant (at our old house), either him or his teenaged son and/or friends. Of course we have no proof. Had it been teenagers "pranking" other people around us would've been hit, too, and so far as we could tell by driving around, no one else's decorations were touched. Kids on a random rampage will go after all they can, not just one specific house.
I *am* glad that that was all that was broken... but it's a rather disheartening thing to wake up to in the morning.
We know it occured sometime after midnight, because Meg and Charlie (her bf) were watching Finn while we went out to a late dinner, and the decorations were fine when we got home around midnight. I remember the dogs barking at one point after we'd gone to bed, but I didn't get up to check because I was so sleepy. I suspect that the rest of the decorations might have gotten trashed as well, but that when the dogs started barking, whoever it was ran off, being afraid that the barking would wake us up to go look.
Anyway, we've got to clean up the mess, and fix what we can. Sigh. Such a sad, sick person, doing something like that. There's a pettyness of the soul there, and a complete disregard for the spirit of the season. I just hope that whoever it was will be content to leave it at that.
And yes, I'm filing a police report on it. Nothing that the cops can really do... but if we do have further problems later on, at least we've started documentation on it.