Neighborhood Vandals - Aarghh!

Last Friday afternoon, while walking home from school, Adam noticed that someone had knocked over some Christmas decorations in an older couple's yard. He stopped to set them up and continued on his way home wondering why anyone would do such a thing. ( He helps set up the Christmas decorations at our house and knows it takes time to get it all working just right )

When we moved into our house 6 years ago, it came with an adjustable basketball goal. That goal saw some good usage in the first 6 years, but this summer, someone decided to dunk the ball and hang on the rim. After that demonstration, the goal hung at 30 degrees for the remainder of the summer.

Adam decided to fix the goal on Saturday with my bar clamp.

That very evening, between 11:30 and 12:00, Buster started barking at something. Normally, Jackie gets up to pound on the window to make Buster stop, but she didn't this time. We woke up on Sunday morning and suspected that Buster was barking at some boys that were out "Deer Tipping", since our two Christmas deer were laying on their sides.

On Sunday night, when it got dark there were at least 6 houses that discovered that their Christmas lights had been snipped. Apparently, these "Deer Tipping" boys were also carrying wire cutters or hedge clippers. They cut a lot of wires in a very short time.

Within an hour, Jackie called the omsbudsman that normally calls us about Adam's fort and Buster's barking and told him that we are going to sharpen Buster's teeth and teach him to bark louder. I also suggested to Jackie and one of the neighbors that our whole neighborhood pack up our lights, take down our Christmas trees, and give away all the boys toys to boys in other neighborhoods.

12 hours later, I think we'll just get new Christmas lights and pray for the boys, whoever they are.