Thats horrible, I put them in the same category as thieves, pure s***. Karma will follow them. Sorry buddy
I bet they don't live far away and they have definitely hung around there before. Probably had some new kid or kids with them and were trying to impress them. Also, did you find any beer cans around?
Is this farm abandoned or do the inlaws still live there? If it is abandoned, I'd be willing to bet the local teenagers/troublemakers just found a new hangout. It ain't over yet. If you can't be there to protect, you should at least get a cheap camera system so you can hopefully identify the guilty when they come back.
That blows. I had a kid shoot My 47 ford parts car years ago. Blew the windows out put holes in the stainless, man i could have killed the little ****.
Parents with money are more likely to cover for them. Hopefully they have hard-working parents like mine - I never would've tried this ****. I was more afraid of my folks than any cops.
While you could be right, plenty of vandalism is just done simply for the amu*****t of the perpetrator.
it'd be real fun to find out where the kids live.. then start putting dented broken car parts on their parent's lawn with " i know what you did" painted on them. just.. wipe the parts for prints before you do this. it'll scare the **** out of the dirty little s*** buckets.
That sux man, I know if I would have done something like that when I was a kid, my parents woulda beat me within an inch of my life.....then made me work off the debt. Sounds like an idea to me!
Had a young kid in my neighborhood go to a construction site and fire off the backhoe sitting there...raised the front bucket to high then proceeded to go up a smaill hill..Backhoe tipped over on him..Needless to say they knew who was fooling with the hoe..as he was dead as hell.
File a police report... chances are these kids didn't just randomly pick your farm and do all this in 10 minutes. They even brought a hammer. Either they had it in for you (which I doubt) or more likely they do this kind of stuff regularly. Once the police are clued in, the more incidences like this there are, the more attention the police will put into finding the culprits. Make sure the police are using the words "Cl***ic Vehicles" and not "old junk cars." Depending on how much time you want to spend on this, you can present them with a list of damaged parts THAT WERE SELLABLE, and how much those parts were worth, and it will go from "vandalism" to "Felony destruction of property." When I was in high school, a bunch of kids in my grade (8th) egged our house. The cops figured out who it was, and all four boys had to come scrub the bricks and shutters, until my father was satisfied the house was clean and the egg wasn't going to stain. Their fathers had to stand and supervise them. It was all big fun when they first showed up... on that cold November day... 4 hours on ladders with their hands in cold water scrubbing our house drove the point home. The fathers weren't nearly as jovial after 4 hours in the cold. Their "Boys will be boys" mentality was gone after about an hour. -brad
Though I'm sorry for the loss of life, there's an old-fashion saying I'm reminded of here. Maybe, sometimes, "You reap what you sew" really pans out in the real world.
There was 3 punks who tore up several houses under construction (weeks from completion), smashing everything they could, toilets, windows, walls cielings etc. They were sooooo stupid that they even taped the carnage. Their parents ended up loosing the family home to pay for the damages. I hope they think about it every day that they go home to a cheap apartment. If you put up camera, don't place them in the open! Geez, they guy who got his camera smashed must not have put much thought into placement. High up in the crotch of a tree or buried in a pile of leaves or a pile of rocks. Usually there are plenty of places that keep them hidden enough. Damn shame to be sure! Too bad it illegal to go hunting or set ****ie traps.
I learned the hard way about good parenting -vs- bad. When I was a kid, a "friend" and I took all the nice ripe produce in a neighbors garden and smashed it all over another neighbors dog house. The guy with the garden was PISSED! He found out it was us, and came and talked to our parents. Mine told him to make me work it off. The other kids parents basicaly said "F-off!". I ended up picking about 1/2 dozen 5 gallon buckets of accorns out of this guys yard. The other kid didn't have to do jack. I'm glad my folks started that with me, because it took less than a summer of hanging out with this kid and a couple other trouble makers to realize they were going to end up in "Juvie" or worse, and I should stay away from them. They later got caught tearing up fresh cement in a ba*****t and other stuff in a house that was under construction in our neighborhood. Their parents couldn't deny that one, since they all had fresh cement on their shoes. They ended up paying for all the damage the kids did. No one in that group finished HS, and they all ended up on drugs, and in more trouble. They also all had parents who were divorced or the type that just didn't care.
I just have to second the whole vandalism ****s, been beating out dents and trying to find replacements for my 1932 Chrysler 3w.. the car was perfect until vandals took a bat to it, all the lenses, the very expensive hood ornament and numerous dings and dents all over it. I bought it after the vandalism happened but the repair work is not any more fun.
That stinks. It's nice to have a '32 3-W project, BUT that's not the way anybody wants to happen into a project! The poor sonofa***** who owned it must have been too crestfallen to try and pick up the pieces. Poor *******. What's happened to society when mere kids tell the adult world what to do ... AND get away with it? Back when I was a kid, we had something called REFORM SCHOOL for wise ***es like that.
Quote ... "Geez, they guy who got his camera smashed must not have put much thought into placement". If you are referring to the two cameras being smashed in my earlier post ... the cameras were game cameras being used as game cameras. They were not installed for security reasons, their only purpose at the time of installation was to record wildlife on his property.
It was not quite that bad, the car was behind his house in a field left to the elements for 30+ years but besides surface rust in perfect shape. Now it needs more then a little bit of m***aging, and it's not like it's the standard '32 Ford 3w that you can buy patch panels for.
Yep, and I'm 65 and still won't cross my 85 year old mom. My dad could make you feel terrible with just a look but my mom did and does believe in spare the rod spoil the child. My neighbor told me once that kids are like dogs. If you see one it usually isn't a problem, two you had better keep and eye on but three or more and you have trouble almost every time. No telling when the damage was done but it was probably done by a pack of 12/14 year olds. It might even have been some neighbors grandkids visiting during the summer or holidays. On a similar note I had an idiot insurance woman tell me that she was having trouble insuring my place because I have a sailboat on it and some "child" might get hurt on it. Understand that my driveway is 400 fee long and I live in the middle of a 70 acre field and the closest children live a quarter mile away across the highway that they aren't allowed to go near let alone across except when getting off the bus in the afternoon. But this city slicker couldn't understand that concept.
Man that ****s....... I have a friend who kept crying about a storage place (just bare farmland and not fenced in and right off the side of a not so travelled road) loaded with some really nice to retore cars. Everytime he goes out there he finds one or two cars gone. I kept telling him to put up a fence w/gate and lock them in. He told me he couldn't afford it. I said, so you CAN afford to lose them? Vandels and thieves......ugh!
If they were very young (Stupid) kids, I'm wondering if they thought the stuff was abandoned and left for junk. I know it sounds stupid, but have you noticed how kids act today? If you do find them, I'd shake down their parents for some cash!
Keep an eye on the YouTube videos. These stupid punks seem to like to video their own felonies and post them with pride.
BTW, I did that, and the f'ers just put a log chain on the fence and jerked it down and stole 2 of my cars, in case you wondered.
Even young kids can be TOLD that TRESP***ING IS TRESP***ING. It's the law everywhere in the U.S. and Canada. I don't need to hear any kids' excuses for WHY they "THOUGHT" they could just go any place they pleased. AND beat the hell out of anything they find there? Duh. The sheriffs can't enforce laws the judges won't enforce. The sheriffs just catch crooks, it's the judges' responsibility to do more than smack thieves and vandals on the wrists.
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