Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Plastic Windows and Future Felons

Jim has an extra car which he plans to sell now that he has a new one. It has been parked in front of my house for several weeks. It seemed in less danger here than in his apartment complex, we reasoned.

Last week before I went home for Christmas, it was egged. Okay.

This morning when I got up and went out to go the gym, the back window (yes, the most expensive one to replace) had been busted out and the side mirror was cracked.

I've spent the last three hours chatting with police, cleaning up glass and installing a nice, new plastic window on the car. Considering these vandalizings have all happened since the future felons have been on winter break, it seems most reasonable to assume that the same future felons who broke the community mailbox and who threw my neighbor's yard lights into the street while on fall break are, once again, running wild at night.

The bad part is that they're getting braver.

And now, it is all I can do to NOT take the garbage bag full of glass shards up to the apartment complex at the end of the street and dump half of it across the entrance and the other half across the exit. ...but that would be wrong.

-b

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