The Saga of the Pellet Gun Vandal
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Faulkner
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There are people who should not own pets or have children, yet they do it anyway.
The dummy could have picked something cheaper to vandalize. That much car glass is probably $12k - $60k damages. That's a felony, no?
Somebody, he and/or his family, is going to be hurting if the judge and/or insurance companies require restitution to avoid jail time.
Faulkner, that was a nice write up of a sad tale.
Somebody, he and/or his family, is going to be hurting if the judge and/or insurance companies require restitution to avoid jail time.
Faulkner, that was a nice write up of a sad tale.
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Faulkner
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You have obviously never watched the Netflix series Ozark!
I tried to but everybody was so dad-gum mean I gave up on it.
Beemer-mark
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I was maybe 19 and was headed home after a night of heavy drinking (legal age was 18) on a lonely rural highway. The highway was so lonely it would be unusual to meet another vehicle. Number of curves involved and I had previously (along with other friends) not quite made the curves on the narrow road and hit a mail box. Well this night I hit the mail box, went end over end at about 50 mph, took out a power pole that hit the house and went through two fences. Turns out the owner of the mail box decided to mount it on a 4x4 anchored in cement.
Lesson learned was (1) don't drink and drive (2) retaliatory defensive measures may be more expensive that the vandalism. I'm kinda a hard *** but kids are kids and sometimes (all the times?) they do stupid things. In my day Dad knocked you up along side the head and yor worked to fix the vandalism. You didn't go to court, you didn't go to reform school. You just got yupped and worked a lot of week ends to make it right.
I worry today every minor offense is a blot permanently on your record that will follow you forever.
carpriver
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when I was much younger I caused some trouble for the city maintaince crew. Not being the brightest bulb on the family tree. I shot out 12 street lights one night with my trusty daisy pump BB gun. I started in front of my house and shot out each one until I got to my friends house.
I did get caught and was required to work off the money it cost to replace the bulbs. I work cutting grass, racking leaves, shoveling snow. My dad was disappointed in me and made sure I worked every day.
I did get caught and was required to work off the money it cost to replace the bulbs. I work cutting grass, racking leaves, shoveling snow. My dad was disappointed in me and made sure I worked every day.
gdnagle
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I must have lived a sheltered life or maybe I was afraid if I got caught I 'd get my A** whopped by my mother and worse by my father after she was done with me. Worst things I ever did was dump bubble bath in a small water fountain, man you should have seen the bubbles and that fountain was never that clean before or after, and ring a 10" bell this guy had in his front yard about 12 at night. Heck we were no saints we use to go to the grave yard at night to drink, we never damaged anything although we did sit on tomb stones and got in fist fights. I guess almost 60 years ago most kids respected others property or were afraid of the consequences, remember them days you could receive corporal punishment and your parents never got in trouble.
Glad ya'll caught the vandals. Got to respect LEO ya have a tough job. Lots of kid nowadays aren't taught respect for other people or property. Then you hear the parents take up for them even when their wrong.
Glad ya'll caught the vandals. Got to respect LEO ya have a tough job. Lots of kid nowadays aren't taught respect for other people or property. Then you hear the parents take up for them even when their wrong.
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EXACTLY RIGHT.
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I started college in northwest PA back in the day when autos had real steel bumpers and fairly stout bodywork. At any rate, it seems that to a certain segment of the teen population, simply whacking a mailbox wasn't enough. Apparently, the MO was to centerup the mailbox in the middle of the front bumper and take the whole thing down. (cars/trucks had more ground clearance then too).
Well there was a farmer out on Rt 8 who got tired of this and used a long piece of 4-6 inch thick wall pipe as a post. It went down 6 feet and not only was set in concrete, but the pipe was poured full. A few weeks later, he was awakened by a crash. He got up, got dressed and drove the 1/2 mile or so to Rt 8 and found an abandoned car or pickup (been 60+ years) with the mailbox post about in the middle of the hood (probably stopped by the engine cross member).
The state cops were a bit upset but SFAIK, no lawsuit. Mailbox destruction dropped significantly after this.
Well there was a farmer out on Rt 8 who got tired of this and used a long piece of 4-6 inch thick wall pipe as a post. It went down 6 feet and not only was set in concrete, but the pipe was poured full. A few weeks later, he was awakened by a crash. He got up, got dressed and drove the 1/2 mile or so to Rt 8 and found an abandoned car or pickup (been 60+ years) with the mailbox post about in the middle of the hood (probably stopped by the engine cross member).
The state cops were a bit upset but SFAIK, no lawsuit. Mailbox destruction dropped significantly after this.
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