This Weekend Was A Real Bummer :shocked::cam:

[John-Edmonton]

Heard some loud bangs Saturday am at about 04:00 am, then heard the local police helicopter buzz my neighborhood for an hour a short time later. I looked outside my bedroom window and seemed OK. Well, I eventually got up to go to work, got to my car and noticed my front passenger window was smashed! There was glass everywhere. The vehicle in front of mine on the street had his window smashed too. So did the car behind mine 4 houses down. I called the police, filed a report and was late for work.

My wife called me later to say that 37 cars in total had their windows smashes. So....no detecting for the rest of this weekend, as I have to work and clean up the car.

What kind of an A$$ would do something like that? Nothing was stolen either....

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[Uncle Willy]

We've had the same senseless vandalism here. In one neighborhood 37 some cars were whacked, windows busted, tires slashed. It's a different world today with kids who have nothing better to do or just a group of whackos out on a binge.

Bill

 

[DavHut]

I remember kids doing the same thing back in my day, along with mailbox smashing and car-door keying. I personally never got into more than a little toilet-papering, but I knew kids who did far worse. So much, though, for the myth of the well-behaved Canadian.

Sorry about your mess and trouble, John. I really hate it when bad things happen to good people.

 

[Paul(NWO)]

We had the driver's window broken while the car was parked in the driveway. We had 7 flat tires in a 3 month period. The teens do that here. Occasionly the cops are able to catch them. Some kids broke into a school in a village in our area probably 10 years ago and about $250,000 worth of damage. They were caught and were supposed to pay for the damage. Don't know if the parents were able to get loans to pay for it. It's a different world.

 

[gwn]

Their everwhere John...as it happens daughter had her taillight smashed out saturday night as well...sorry to hear about yours... Gary

 

[Terry in PA]

We had a bunch of teenage kids slash the tires of 10 cars in our small town a few years ago.. They have since moved out of town and all the trouble has left also. We had better things to do as teenagers then wreck someone's property. Hope you get everything taken care of !

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah my cousin's kids along with some other kids broke into their elementary school years ago, piled a bunch of books and stuff on the library floor, set it afire, and burned the whole damned school down. My cousin was a teacher there. Don't think she has lived it down yet.

We used to pull a lot of stuff halloweening but never anything like that.



Bill

 

[NM5K]

We used to pull some stunts when young, but
nothing like that where you have lots of $$$$
worth of damage.
Our idea of tricks were throwing eggs, toilet
paper the trees, sacks of dog doo which we place
on a porch, would light on fire, and ring the
doorbell, etc.. LOL.. But I would have never thought
about breaking car windows, etc..
My new car, I won't even leave outside at night.
#1 the huge oak tree in the front yard is a car
killer.. It commonly drops branches etc, that put
dents in cars. But I also fear the local hoodlems
with nothing better to do than smash stuff.
We have seen the same thing around here naturally,
being the big city of Houston. There have been many
cases of smashed car windows that stretch across
whole subdivisions.
I also fear auto theft... And my car "corolla" is
high on the list of pilfered cars..
But it would not be easy to steal my corolla as it
has the imobilizer system, etc. You can't start it
without a transponder key.. To be honest, I don't like
the system, as I fear one day I'll lose my keys and
*I* won't be able to start the thing.. But I guess
it does add an extra wrinkle to a car thief...
It also has a red light that winks and blinks anytime
the car is sitting, so that helps to scare away hoodlems
a bit.
MK