Sunday night around 11:30 my wife was scared half to death when a brick came crashing through our dining room window. I think I know who did it, but have no real proof.
The back story: Saturday afternoon I caught a neighborhood kid stealing a bicycle horn off of my front porch. It’s something my wife picked up at a yard sale a few weeks ago, and my daughter likes to run around the yard and honk it like crazy. It was still out on the porch when I finished mowing the lawn Saturday and went inside to get cleaned up.
I was upstairs when I heard someone honking the horn through the open bedroom window, which was strange because I was home alone and my daughter was with the in-laws. By the time I got down stairs to check things out, the horn was gone I saw a little kid walking down the street away from the house. He couldn’t have been older than 10 or 11.
Later that afternoon I saw him again. He was hanging around the neighbor’s house with some other kids who I think are my neighbor’s grandkids. I asked him if he was the one honking the horn earlier. He said yes, he was. I asked him if he had taken the horn since it wasn’t on the porch any more. He denied taking it and shot me a nasty look.
I was very polite and calmly told him I would have let him play with the horn if he would have simply asked. I told him he shouldn’t walk onto a stranger’s property and mess with their stuff without their permission and I left it at that.
Cut to Sunday night. My wife woke me up crying around 11:30 p.m. and told me someone had tried to break in, and they had just smashed open the dining room window. I grabbed my nightstand pistol, threw her the phone and told her to call the police while I grabbed my 2 year old and brought her into our bedroom.
The police got there about 5 minutes later. (It was the same officer who responded to our previous 911 call, when my wife was robbed at gunpoint in our driveway a few months ago. https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...ife-friends-robbed-gunpoint-my-own-house.html) He started a perimeter search while I scanned the living room and found a large chuck of cinder block on the floor. That’s what had come through the window.
I don’t think it was a break-in attempt, because those windows are on the side of the house and they are too high to easily climb through. Plus, that part of the yard is well lit by a couple of flood lights we installed after the robbery.
I’m pretty sure it was the kid that had come back (or one of his friends, brother, etc.). We found a couple other pieces of concrete outside on the lawn. I figure it took him a couple of throws to smash the window. He likely targeted those windows because my wife was in the front room with the lights on. The dining room was dark at the time so he knew it was likely empty.
The bottom line is that I have to pay several hundred dollars to replace a window simply because some punk hood rat wanted to get “even” after I caught him stealing a bike horn my wife paid 25 cents for.
If it was in fact him, I find it pretty telling that a 10 year old kid doesn’t think twice about stealing in broad daylight, has no trouble sneaking out of the house at 11:30 p.m. and thinks it’s ok to chuck rocks through a stranger’s window because he felt “disrespected.” I’m sure he’s got a real bright future ahead of him.
The back story: Saturday afternoon I caught a neighborhood kid stealing a bicycle horn off of my front porch. It’s something my wife picked up at a yard sale a few weeks ago, and my daughter likes to run around the yard and honk it like crazy. It was still out on the porch when I finished mowing the lawn Saturday and went inside to get cleaned up.
I was upstairs when I heard someone honking the horn through the open bedroom window, which was strange because I was home alone and my daughter was with the in-laws. By the time I got down stairs to check things out, the horn was gone I saw a little kid walking down the street away from the house. He couldn’t have been older than 10 or 11.
Later that afternoon I saw him again. He was hanging around the neighbor’s house with some other kids who I think are my neighbor’s grandkids. I asked him if he was the one honking the horn earlier. He said yes, he was. I asked him if he had taken the horn since it wasn’t on the porch any more. He denied taking it and shot me a nasty look.
I was very polite and calmly told him I would have let him play with the horn if he would have simply asked. I told him he shouldn’t walk onto a stranger’s property and mess with their stuff without their permission and I left it at that.
Cut to Sunday night. My wife woke me up crying around 11:30 p.m. and told me someone had tried to break in, and they had just smashed open the dining room window. I grabbed my nightstand pistol, threw her the phone and told her to call the police while I grabbed my 2 year old and brought her into our bedroom.
The police got there about 5 minutes later. (It was the same officer who responded to our previous 911 call, when my wife was robbed at gunpoint in our driveway a few months ago. https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...ife-friends-robbed-gunpoint-my-own-house.html) He started a perimeter search while I scanned the living room and found a large chuck of cinder block on the floor. That’s what had come through the window.
I don’t think it was a break-in attempt, because those windows are on the side of the house and they are too high to easily climb through. Plus, that part of the yard is well lit by a couple of flood lights we installed after the robbery.
I’m pretty sure it was the kid that had come back (or one of his friends, brother, etc.). We found a couple other pieces of concrete outside on the lawn. I figure it took him a couple of throws to smash the window. He likely targeted those windows because my wife was in the front room with the lights on. The dining room was dark at the time so he knew it was likely empty.
The bottom line is that I have to pay several hundred dollars to replace a window simply because some punk hood rat wanted to get “even” after I caught him stealing a bike horn my wife paid 25 cents for.
If it was in fact him, I find it pretty telling that a 10 year old kid doesn’t think twice about stealing in broad daylight, has no trouble sneaking out of the house at 11:30 p.m. and thinks it’s ok to chuck rocks through a stranger’s window because he felt “disrespected.” I’m sure he’s got a real bright future ahead of him.
