Malicious Kids!!!!!!! Pine cone throwing broke a window

[Whoa_Nelly]

I live where a 6+ ft. block wall separates me from the main street through my section of this rural town I live in...it's basically a very quiet street, the cop shop is just down the way two blocks from me. I was enjoying Hypno Toad's thread link re: Mick Jagger photoshopped, when I heard a loud *POP* and glass shattering from the window in the room where my computer is located. Since the curtains were closed, at first I thought someone with a gun had shot out my window....I ran the other way in the house. Then, when I didn't see any glass on the inside of the room, I peeked outside and saw that the outer pane of the dual paned window had a huge hole in it and there was glass in between the panes and on my patio. Then, I noticed two large very hard pinecones...the type that come off the trees on the other side of the block wall (Street side).

So, I called police, filed a malicious mischief report, and they just left. Funny though...and maybe really not all that surprising...they noticed my big table set up with all my family passive income paperwork set up on it, (am working on on playing catchup for keeping files straight), and was asked...."So, you work at home...looks like a lot of papers"...and they wanted my driver's license/photo ID number for the report, and asked a few other questions about me. Actually, it was the uniform that did the paper part and the question-asking. The other guy was in "casual" dress and made sure he took time to look around as I led them through the house initially and afterward after I followed them back to the front door when they left.

Am sure it was just kids who were up to doing something stupid, and my window was hit, and they ran. I think I'm more bothered by the cops asking questions about me, my personal things in house and the "looking over" of my home as if I could possibly be a problem suspect for something like TERRORISM! :rofl:

Anyway...just sharing what happened. Now, will have to deal with the real estate manager (I rent), and getting the window repaired ASAP before I go on road trip in next few weeks...and damn, but the real estate manager I deal with can be really slow, mostly because the owner of the property hates to spend money when it's his responsibility to take care of certain things. And I think having this window repaired is a ball in his court, not mine.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. My friends and I used to have pinecone fights when we were younger

Good times.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Then, this could have been

kids having a pinecone fight, and two of them happened to make it over the wall, with one hitting the window. So, maybe not so malicious as accidental all in the name of high-spirited fun.

Could have happened that way... Meanwhile, I have a broken window that fortunately is only broken on the outside pane. Guess things could be worse right now :)

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Haha, you're window is just collateral damage

:P

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. As well as

my time in contacting the property manager, being here for the repair guy estimate, being here for the installation, and now making sure the cops aren't keeping me under SURVEILLANCE!!!!!!!!

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

[Elidor]

5. Cops always do that.

Okay, that's a generalization, but I mean they are nosy even when they have no reason to be, and they are trained to be observant, so they can hardly walk into someone's home without giving the place the once over. It's probably fairly common for them to find that people who call them have certain illegalities of their own. Some of them think their job is a license to be nosy about everything.

[LisaL]

6. I had my window broken by a boy playing golf in his backyard.

They actually showed up the next day and offered to pay for it.
Which is nice, as I didn't know who broke my window and would have been paying for it myself otherwise.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Could be the kid who threw the pinecone

has no idea that it broke my window :shrug: