There has been a string of vandalism in the area lately. Mostly these vandals have limited themselves to tagging innocent trees and ditches for their fun but they have been escalating. The other morning they tagged the garage of one of our neighbors. We heard all about it since they did it in the early hours of the morning and our neighbor happens to be an early riser. Even though he lives about a mile away from us we heard his discovery clear as a bell.

Hard to miss a 40-plus year old man screaming “You damn punk kids, I’ll shove those cans so far up your asses you’ll be singing spray paint for weeks!” into the still air at around 5am. And if, by some miracle we didn’t hear him hollering that, then we would have had to be deaf to miss the sounds of dogs howling, kids screaming in terror, and gun blasts.

Apparently he let loose his hunting dogs after the kids and took a few shots at them to give them incentive to run. Why anyone would mess with a guy with a kennel full of big dogs that attack on command and who is trigger happy with a shotgun I have no idea.

Our neighbor wasn’t the only victim of the vandals sadly. My grandfather is now missing some truck accessories off of his old Chevy truck. Missing items circled in red where they used to be:

First we noticed that the hitch on his truck had been swiped, which was sad because he’s had thing truck for decades, it’s a ‘73 Chevrolet, and that hitch has been on there for just as long. Then, about a week later, we noticed that someone had jacked one of the covers on his propane tank on the truck and tried to start carving something onto the top of the tank. It looks kind of like a “3″.

So now everything of value is chained and bolted down. We’ve been especially getting onto mom who used to be very bad about locking her truck.

People suck.