Vandals Suck

[90Xjay]

My town is getting a bad reputation for vandals shooting out glass everywhere and they hit me last night.

I just bought a new Chevy Silverado in Sept and some punks shot out the back glass sometime last night.

There is some businesses who have had their front windows shot out so many times that they have given up and just left the plywood up. someone told me that they could not get insurance anylonger because of so many claims.... You know this cost people and insurance companies time and money. I don't know what if anything the poe-leece are doing. I think if you get caught out at night driving around with a pellet gun that should be a trip to jail..I mean what else would you be doing with one in your car at night?

You know that feeling when you get a new vehicle and you keep it spotless and just right and then you notice that first scratch? Well imagine how my heart sank when I found this..

Boy.. I'm really in the dumps over this...

90

 

[OutOfStep]

Sorry to hear about your window, its always a pain in the butt to get them fixed, and all the worse when its vandalism. Have many other people in your neighborhood been hit?

 

[90Xjay]

When I called the PD today after lunch when I found it, they said I was the only one so far today to report auto vandalism, but that many people may not notice it until later in the day or the next day if they don't use the car on Sunday.
But is it a big problem in my town and my friend who lives across town had his driver side mirror smashed with something like a bat two weekends ago.

 

[Sparky-Watts]

In Kansas it's a felony to fire a weapon into a vehicle or dwelling, whether it's a Tec-9 or a pellet pistol or a paintball gun. Hopefully your state has similar laws and those maggots are caught, drawn and quartered, and left to rot somewhere hideous.

I feel your pain, bro. I had some jerkwad neighbor slash all 4 of my BFG M/T's on my Toy when they were only a week old. He mainly did it because he found out that his ex-gf started dating me after she dumped him....2 years before I ever even moved into that neighborhood or even knew him!! I know he did it, but couldn't prove it, so nothing ever came of it....legally. But believe you me, he paid for it tenfold in the end. I managed to make his life a living hell, right up to the point where it was ended by a shotgun blast to his chest while trying to kick in the front door of another ex of his. Her daddy pulled the trigger, did the world a favor, and was never even charged with anything, rightly so.

I believe in Karma, bud, so take some solace in the fact that what goes around comes around, often harder and faster than it did the first time by.

 

[LadyJeepFreak]

I am sorry to read this 90. I have been lucky so far but there is nothing I hate more than vandalisim, especially towards my vehicles. I have had things thrown at me twice while driving doorless in the jeep at night. Once was a peice of lumber, once a big rock. The big rock barely missed me and I called the police. Nothing ever happened of course. It happened in the same neighborhood too, where my mom lives. I have no choice but to travel it since she lives there. I really do hate it though. It's just not fair that people get away with it.

Lady

 

[90Xjay]

Well I'm sorry to post such a downer, but if the truck wasn't 2 months old, it wouldn't be so darned hard to swallow. I will say that Geico has been really nice since I called them this afternoon, I already have a claim number and I think I might be able to get it in for replacment tomorrow.

As for revenge, I have asked God to kill those responsible, I think that fits the crime.....

 

[judge09]

That sucks 90. I would be pretty damn ****ed off too. Only one thing to do. get bullet proof windows. And while you are there can you get me a vest. You never know when you might have to go to kansas!

 

[southtj]

The cops might want to investigate the local glass company. See if they're any pelet guns in their shop.

Hey, it's happened before.

I've also heard of a tire shop owner going around town and slashing tires. They finally busted his sorry behind.

 

[wm69]

yeah we caught our local tire shop manager throwing nails out around the granary. The truckers who were hauling the grain were *****ing about getting flats all the time so we started lurking at night and sure enough the douche drives through and throws out a handful of roofing nails....
He moved after he lost his job.......

 

[LRwrnglr]

Well going to school in a town with a population of 500, the only vandalism i've had is a stolen gas cap. while this torked me off i would have been furious if i had tires slashed or a window shot out. Sorry to hear about your dilema and hope that they find those sorry bast.......people!

LR

 

[OutOfStep]

I've been surprised that my Jeep hasn't been vandalized so far. I live in Phoenix and work downtown. I only put the doors on in late January for 2 or 3 weeks, the rest of the time its wide open. The only thing ever to go missing was some change and a few mints from Sonic that were in the ash tray. I put one of my sons oral medicine syringes with a baskeball pump needle on the end and put it on top of the change and mints. Since then no one has thought that the change was worth moving a possibly contaminated hypodermic needlew.

 

[Sparky-Watts]

You never know when you might have to go to kansas!

You'll be fine as long as you don't act like a jackass or try to kick in someone's door......:wink:

 

[TwistedCU]

That does suck.

Probably not any consolation to ya, but this remended me of a funny story...

A good friend of mine kept having his mailbox bashed in by kids playing mailbox baseball. It was an ongoing problem and it lasted over 2 years.

Well Brian, being the "never say die" and "win at any cost" guy that he was, put a bigger, stronger mailbox each time it was destroyed. This became nothing more than a challenge to the baseball kids and each time the newer, bigger box went down.

Brian called my friend John and I to come over and do some "rehab work" to his house.

We started by setting an I beam in concrete. Brian them welded a steel platform on the I beam. We then set an enormous mailbox on the platform, and set a smaller box inside that one, filling in the area between the two with steel reinforced concrete. We then boxed the I beam in with 1x6's to hide the beam.

Brian was optimistic. We had built the most stout mailbox known to man, yet it looked like a regular steel box on a 6x6 post. It looked inviting, but was actually a stealth mail fortress!!!

About a week later I got a call from brian. He said that I had to drive by the box and see his victory flag. I did. It was a bloody shirt that he picked up from the gound lying next to his new mailbox then stapled to the 1x6 to declare victory. The mailbox had a tiny ding in it from what whould appeared to have been a bat

 

[Sparky-Watts]

That does suck.

Probably not any consolation to ya, but this remended me of a funny story...

A good friend of mine kept having his mailbox bashed in by kids playing mailbox baseball. It was an ongoing problem and it lasted over 2 years.

Well Brian, being the "never say die" and "win at any cost" guy that he was, put a bigger, stronger mailbox each time it was destroyed. This became nothing more than a challenge to the baseball kids and each time the newer, bigger box went down.

Brian called my friend John and I to come over and do some "rehab work" to his house.

We started by setting an I beam in concrete. Brian them welded a steel platform on the I beam. We then set an enormous mailbox on the platform, and set a smaller box inside that one, filling in the area between the two with steel reinforced concrete. We then boxed the I beam in with 1x6's to hide the beam.

Brian was optimistic. We had built the most stout mailbox known to man, yet it looked like a regular steel box on a 6x6 post. It looked inviting, but was actually a stealth mail fortress!!!

About a week later I got a call from brian. He said that I had to drive by the box and see his victory flag. I did. It was a bloody shirt that he picked up from the gound lying next to his new mailbox then stapled to the 1x6 to declare victory. The mailbox had a tiny ding in it from what whould appeared to have been a bat

Our local police chief did something similar to stop the rash of stop sign vandalism around the county near town. Some kids decided to take it upon themselves to run down stop signs in their trucks. This eventually led to a fatality accident because a stop sign was down, but nobody had any proof who was doing it. So, the chief made his own repairs to one of the more frequently downed signs with a regular 4x4 post and a ripper from a farm plow (called a root cutter). The ripper was 4' long, curved, and had a very sharp knife edge on the end. He buried this alongside the sign, with about 2' of it sticking out of the ground, and painted flat black so that it wouldn't be easily visible at night. A few nights later, the sign was down again, but all the chief, county deputy, and prosecutor had to do was follow the trail of oil and antifreeze a couple of miles to the house where the kid lived. There they found the truck hidden in a barn, the radiator and oil pan (and pretty much most of the undercarriage) heavily damaged. The kid was charged with malicious vandalism, unintentional homicide, and a myriad of other related charges. He served 5 years and is on probation for 5 more. The family of the victim sued him for the death of their loved one, and won a judgement the kid will never be able to pay back, well into 7 figures.

Sorry to hijack, just had to relate.

 

[90Xjay]

well I wrote emails to all of our distinguished council-people about the growing problem here and turns out that one has a business downtown where the large plate glass windows have been shot out twice and another had a close friend have his windsheild shot out at a stop light!

One of them emailed back and said they are already asking the Poe-leece chief what he is doing about this and maybe a crackdown in coming.

I rank window shooting vandals right up there with child molesters.

 

[judge09]

I rank window shooting vandals right up there with child molesters.

Well I dont know about that but...its real frustrating when someone comes and damages your ride. Cars and trucks are so damn expensive these days. I would definitely kick some but if I saw someone messing with the jeep.

Someone at work has a corvette that he covers while at work and on the car cover he spray painted that he was a gun carrying NRA member. That might deter me a little :shock:

 

[Sparky-Watts]

Here's a pretty good vandalism/theft deterrent system that I've found useful in the past:

:bomb:

 

[Junkpile]

I hate vandalism too. They should have to pay for all damage and inconvenience to the victim and be punished to the full extent of the law. If the vandal is an adult, a beating is in order too. On the other hand, if my stupid little kid was permanently hurt by some boobytrapping hillbilly, some destroyed property would be the least of their concerns. We were all young at some point and we all did stupid things.

 

[TwistedCU]

I hate vandalism too. They should have to pay for all damage and inconvenience to the victim and be punished to the full extent of the law. If the vandal is an adult, a beating is in order too. On the other hand, if my stupid little kid was permanently hurt by some boobytrapping hillbilly, some destroyed property would be the least of their concerns. We were all young at some point and we all did stupid things.

That's true. Had that police cheif's ripper caused injury he would have been up $#it's creek.

 

[Sparky-Watts]

That's true. Had that police cheif's ripper caused injury he would have been up $#it's creek.

Not true. The kid tried to sue for damages to the vehicle, but the judge threw the case out. The judge said it wouldn't have been any different if the kid had been injured, either. It was a support for the post the stop sign was on. Similarly, you couldn't take legal action against the state or county if you intentionally (or unintentionally) hit a concrete bridge railing, a bridge support, a telephone pole, etc.