Not sure if this should be posted in this section but with a frame of thought towards 'what should you do'... the message below was posted by a friend on fb today (lives in Florida). My thought, depending on the number of youthful hoodlums, would be to immediately call 911 then hit the yutes with a bright floodlight, while shouting some authoritative and salty language. I'd love to fire off a number of 7.62x54 or x39 fireball blanks in hopes of getting a few of the yungin's to shart their shorts, but that would not be very considerate to my neighbors. Here is the fb post:
"This morning my family and I were awoken at 1am to what we thought would turn out to be an annoying, but harmless, youthful toilet papering. Twelve hours later, we're still doing our sleepy best to wash away eggs, chocolate syrup, raw chicken, canned tuna, sardines, vaseline, and flour from our house, driveway, and our son's 6 month old car. Rather than a "youthful prank" this is a severe case of property damage.
Although my son went to the car wash at 2:30am, we now find vaseline was shoved into the side mirrors and door locks; washing the flour, egg, and chocolate syrup concoction formed a hard, thick paste that has now dried and baked into the seams and settled into the rubber window seals, etc.
We have at least half a dozen 1'-3' diameter stains on our house walls where eggs were thrown and again, although we did our best to wash this all up during the night, we now find even our residential grade power washer isn't getting the job done. Eggs settled into the window frames of our upstairs bedrooms, and fish into the landscaping around our home. There are only a few areas inside our house where you don't smell the odor of eggs and fish coming in from outdoors.
At a minimum we will have to hire a professional pressure washer. I don't know what my son is going to do about his car, but needless to say, he is devastated.
I'm not writing this post to be dramatic, garner sympathy, or even just to vent. I'm writing because there is a better than not chance that someone knows who did this. We don't want retribution, or to get anyone in trouble, we just want something that is very rare these days - personal RESPONSIBILITY. I pray that someone's mom or dad sees this and is willing to step up and have their child take responsibility for what they did. This has the potential to be a several thousand dollar prank that very transparently, we can't afford right now."
How would Ingo'ers respond to this situation in the heat of the moment. From the post it sounds like the homeowners were awake and witnessing the vandalism.
"This morning my family and I were awoken at 1am to what we thought would turn out to be an annoying, but harmless, youthful toilet papering. Twelve hours later, we're still doing our sleepy best to wash away eggs, chocolate syrup, raw chicken, canned tuna, sardines, vaseline, and flour from our house, driveway, and our son's 6 month old car. Rather than a "youthful prank" this is a severe case of property damage.
Although my son went to the car wash at 2:30am, we now find vaseline was shoved into the side mirrors and door locks; washing the flour, egg, and chocolate syrup concoction formed a hard, thick paste that has now dried and baked into the seams and settled into the rubber window seals, etc.
We have at least half a dozen 1'-3' diameter stains on our house walls where eggs were thrown and again, although we did our best to wash this all up during the night, we now find even our residential grade power washer isn't getting the job done. Eggs settled into the window frames of our upstairs bedrooms, and fish into the landscaping around our home. There are only a few areas inside our house where you don't smell the odor of eggs and fish coming in from outdoors.
At a minimum we will have to hire a professional pressure washer. I don't know what my son is going to do about his car, but needless to say, he is devastated.
I'm not writing this post to be dramatic, garner sympathy, or even just to vent. I'm writing because there is a better than not chance that someone knows who did this. We don't want retribution, or to get anyone in trouble, we just want something that is very rare these days - personal RESPONSIBILITY. I pray that someone's mom or dad sees this and is willing to step up and have their child take responsibility for what they did. This has the potential to be a several thousand dollar prank that very transparently, we can't afford right now."
How would Ingo'ers respond to this situation in the heat of the moment. From the post it sounds like the homeowners were awake and witnessing the vandalism.
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