Call the cops or not?

[shotglass]

We don't always have to play bad cop. We just have some who think they must. ::)

Don't call the police.

 

[DyePack]

Dude, just go and turf their yard when they're gone.

But don't leave a note.

 

[BYH]

This reminds me of the part in Bubbler where the main character and her best friend were caught vandalizing a house and had to rake leaves one Saturday as restitution.

 

[brettwatson]

Just got a little more info a couple hours ago.

A neighbor saw the aftermath and added the following:

-- It happened at 11:30 a.m., not p.m.
-- The kid was alone, and immediately knocked on my front door to attempt to notify me about it.
-- He was on his way out of the subdivision, but went immediately home after the incident. His parents were over shortly thereafter to check things out and returned a couple times in the interim to try and contact me.
-- The neighbor (who is a friend) knows the family and speaks well of them. Says the parents are good people and the kid just got his license.
-- My neighbor does not think it was intentional at all.

Given all that, I think keeping the police out of it is the right way to go. I feel better knowing the kid was not showing off for his buds, and that it was just a typical young driver/driving badly incident.

The suggestion about having the kid do the yard work gives me pause about having a neophyte do work that he is incapable of doing. Getting an estimate from a pro and making the family pay is what I would like to do. But I'll probably go the wimpy route and just see what I can ido n the spring on my own.

 

[Xsportschick]

Maybe the kid could (at the very least) lend a hand?

Sounds like he comes from a nice family...

 

[BYH]

Just got a little more info a couple hours ago.

A neighbor saw the aftermath and added the following:

-- It happened at 11:30 a.m., not p.m.
-- The kid was alone, and immediately knocked on my front door to attempt to notify me about it.
-- He was on his way out of the subdivision, but went immediately home after the incident. His parents were over shortly thereafter to check things out and returned a couple times in the interim to try and contact me.
-- The neighbor (who is a friend) knows the family and speaks well of them. Says the parents are good people and the kid just got his license.
-- My neighbor does not think it was intentional at all.

Given all that, I think keeping the police out of it is the right way to go. I feel better knowing the kid was not showing off for his buds, and that it was just a typical young driver/driving badly incident.

Clearly, your neighbor is in on the ruse. :D

Have Marcellus Wallace bring him to the pound.

 

[DyePack]

This reminds me of the part in Bubbler where the main character and her best friend were caught vandalizing a house and had to rake leaves one Saturday as restitution.

Blubber kicks ass.

It has all the elements: Racism, mental and physical abuse, snot, throwing food, breast (a mention, anyway), the dad's subtle molestation and subjugation of his daughter, the dickhead brother who would have died in any sequel.

 

[BYH]

****! I wrote Bubbler. I meant Blubber. Hi Bubbler! :D

Damn Dye. That's a dark interpretation. I gotta re-read that.

Wonder what ever happened to Sheila the Great. Wonder if Peter grudge****ed her.

 

[DyePack]

Sheila was about as great as Herm Edwards. What a moron.

Years ago they made a TV show out of those Fudge stories. Eve Plumb played the mom. At the time, it sucked really bad. Today it would be the best the networks have to offer.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Dude, how fast do you have to be driving IN A SUBDIVISION to not only jump the curb but completely destroy someone's yard to the point they think it has to be intentional?

Seriously?

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Just got a little more info a couple hours ago.

A neighbor saw the aftermath and added the following:

-- It happened at 11:30 a.m., not p.m.
-- The kid was alone, and immediately knocked on my front door to attempt to notify me about it.
-- He was on his way out of the subdivision, but went immediately home after the incident. His parents were over shortly thereafter to check things out and returned a couple times in the interim to try and contact me.
-- The neighbor (who is a friend) knows the family and speaks well of them. Says the parents are good people and the kid just got his license.
-- My neighbor does not think it was intentional at all.

Given all that, I think keeping the police out of it is the right way to go. I feel better knowing the kid was not showing off for his buds, and that it was just a typical young driver/driving badly incident.

The suggestion about having the kid do the yard work gives me pause about having a neophyte do work that he is incapable of doing. Getting an estimate from a pro and making the family pay is what I would like to do. But I'll probably go the wimpy route and just see what I can ido n the spring on my own.

I hate to be a ****. I really, reeeeeeeally do.

But dammit man, it's grass. By June you won't remember it was there. Go to Home Depot, get a couple of bags of top soil, some grass seed and some burlap to toss down and hit the dad for the bill. If he had lost control of the car and blasted your wife's brand new Cadillac, I'd say otherwise. But it's grass. It grows back. The mailbox on the other hand...

 

[cougargirl]

This reminds me of the part in Bubbler where the main character and her best friend were caught vandalizing a house and had to rake leaves one Saturday as restitution.

Yes, Jill (the main character) and her best friend put rotten eggs in the mailbox of a neighbor on Halloween.

Judy Blume rocks. The book "Blubber" typefied grade-school angst.

 

[joe]

Shoot the offender, burn the body, scatter the bones. It's the only reasonable response.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Shoot the offender, burn the body, scatter the bones. It's the only reasonable response.

Agreed.

And has egging gone out of style? Never hear about that much anymore. Was quite the rage when I was in school, not that I would know anything about activities like that.

 

[DyePack]

We egged one year. Two hours of planning for five seconds of throwing eggs.

 

[BYH]

We egged one year. Two hours of planning for five seconds of throwing eggs.

My condolences to you on the loss of your former best friend Scott Scanlon.

 

[BYH]

This reminds me of the part in Bubbler where the main character and her best friend were caught vandalizing a house and had to rake leaves one Saturday as restitution.

Yes, Jill (the main character) and her best friend put rotten eggs in the mailbox of a neighbor on Halloween.

Judy Blume rocks. The book "Blubber" typefied grade-school angst.

That's it! Thanks cougar. I couldn't remember the exact transgression, but knew it involved eggs.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Just got a little more info a couple hours ago.

A neighbor saw the aftermath and added the following:

-- It happened at 11:30 a.m., not p.m.
-- The kid was alone, and immediately knocked on my front door to attempt to notify me about it.
-- He was on his way out of the subdivision, but went immediately home after the incident. His parents were over shortly thereafter to check things out and returned a couple times in the interim to try and contact me.
-- The neighbor (who is a friend) knows the family and speaks well of them. Says the parents are good people and the kid just got his license.
-- My neighbor does not think it was intentional at all.

Given all that, I think keeping the police out of it is the right way to go. I feel better knowing the kid was not showing off for his buds, and that it was just a typical young driver/driving badly incident.

The suggestion about having the kid do the yard work gives me pause about having a neophyte do work that he is incapable of doing. Getting an estimate from a pro and making the family pay is what I would like to do. But I'll probably go the wimpy route and just see what I can ido n the spring on my own.

A tough call, but I lean to not calling the police given this new info.

Thing is, I'm still stinging from an incident where I tried not to be the heavy and got burnt, so I could change my mind pretty quickly.

 

[DyePack]

This reminds me of the part in Bubbler where the main character and her best friend were caught vandalizing a house and had to rake leaves one Saturday as restitution.

Yes, Jill (the main character) and her best friend put rotten eggs in the mailbox of a neighbor on Halloween.

Judy Blume rocks. The book "Blubber" typefied grade-school angst.

That's it! Thanks cougar. I couldn't remember the exact transgression, but knew it involved eggs.

Then he made them rake leaves for an entire day, and they "got even" by urinating on his trees.

 

[EStreetJoe]

I still say call the police if and only if the father (or kid) refuses to pay for part of (or all of) the damages.