03-16-2009, 02:26 AM
DAD!!! I wasn't THAT much of a pain!!! (although my mom used to take us out toilet papering houses so we wouldn't be out in the middle of the night by ourselves unsupervised...thanks, mom!) Hmmm...and a friend on Facebook just reminded me that we used to have some really great water balloon wars.
Okay, here's the update.
Oh.....I'm feeling bad. I did file a criminal mischief report last night, but it doesn't name the perpetrator. That was fine, as we wanted to talk with his parents first. They told me that they couldn't do anything unless there was a WITNESS to the actual shooting of the gun. Circumstantial evidence doesn't work.
We were outside and talked to a couple of the neighbors. One kid said he saw the other neighbor's kid wiping off our garage door with a towel. Still, no shooter.
Went over there about 10:15 this morning, and his parents were enjoying morning coffee in bed. I think we kind of ruined the moment. They called their son (13), and asked him about it. He said he didn't do it, but since dad's a former police detective, he was out to get the truth. Seems to be a pretty tough dad.
Their paintball gun wasn't even working, so he was puzzled. It ends up the kid had a classmate from school come over, and the kid was a pitcher on the baseball team. He apparently threw one at our neighbor, then apparently threw them at the transformer box in our yard, but since they were being thrown by hand, occasionally they hit things...like our garage door! I had noticed that a lot were intact...the "hand-throwing" explained a lot (like that they were directly behind the transformer box on the ground intact).
The parents were very good. They told him that he needed to go get a bucket, ladder, sponges, and Simple Green, and sent him over to clean it up. Picking up the little paintballs was like hunting for Easter eggs.
I even got a chance to vent to the kid about paintballs next to my beloved Nissan Murano...it was good to get that off my chest!
His dad also made him sweep up the leaves off our driveway as a bonus. While he was out there, I made a point to go out and thank him for his hard work and his efforts to "make it right." While we were talking, he apologized again, and tears started streaming down his face.
I asked him if he did it, and he said that the other kid was a pretty violent kid, always in trouble in school, and he was the aggressor. Johnny (the kid's name) threw some back in "self defense." He said the worst part is that he really didn't make the mess, and I told him
He did such a great job, I think I got him a job with another neighbor helping her out with her yardwork. He seems like a very polite, very nice kid.
He got grounded for the entire Spring Break. I feel REALLY bad about that. His dad was pretty tough on him. At one time, I was going to volunteer my long-handled car washing brush, but his mom said "no, he needs to remember how awful it was." I'm pretty impressed with the parents, although I felt responsible for his ass-chewing!
Anyway, a happy ending. He's coming over Tuesday to power wash the bricks. There's a couple of areas he thinks could be cleaner. :-)
Okay, here's the update.
Oh.....I'm feeling bad. I did file a criminal mischief report last night, but it doesn't name the perpetrator. That was fine, as we wanted to talk with his parents first. They told me that they couldn't do anything unless there was a WITNESS to the actual shooting of the gun. Circumstantial evidence doesn't work.
We were outside and talked to a couple of the neighbors. One kid said he saw the other neighbor's kid wiping off our garage door with a towel. Still, no shooter.
Went over there about 10:15 this morning, and his parents were enjoying morning coffee in bed. I think we kind of ruined the moment. They called their son (13), and asked him about it. He said he didn't do it, but since dad's a former police detective, he was out to get the truth. Seems to be a pretty tough dad.
Their paintball gun wasn't even working, so he was puzzled. It ends up the kid had a classmate from school come over, and the kid was a pitcher on the baseball team. He apparently threw one at our neighbor, then apparently threw them at the transformer box in our yard, but since they were being thrown by hand, occasionally they hit things...like our garage door! I had noticed that a lot were intact...the "hand-throwing" explained a lot (like that they were directly behind the transformer box on the ground intact).
The parents were very good. They told him that he needed to go get a bucket, ladder, sponges, and Simple Green, and sent him over to clean it up. Picking up the little paintballs was like hunting for Easter eggs.
I even got a chance to vent to the kid about paintballs next to my beloved Nissan Murano...it was good to get that off my chest!
His dad also made him sweep up the leaves off our driveway as a bonus. While he was out there, I made a point to go out and thank him for his hard work and his efforts to "make it right." While we were talking, he apologized again, and tears started streaming down his face.
I asked him if he did it, and he said that the other kid was a pretty violent kid, always in trouble in school, and he was the aggressor. Johnny (the kid's name) threw some back in "self defense." He said the worst part is that he really didn't make the mess, and I told him
He did such a great job, I think I got him a job with another neighbor helping her out with her yardwork. He seems like a very polite, very nice kid.
He got grounded for the entire Spring Break. I feel REALLY bad about that. His dad was pretty tough on him. At one time, I was going to volunteer my long-handled car washing brush, but his mom said "no, he needs to remember how awful it was." I'm pretty impressed with the parents, although I felt responsible for his ass-chewing!
Anyway, a happy ending. He's coming over Tuesday to power wash the bricks. There's a couple of areas he thinks could be cleaner. :-)