Okay so a little back story... We bought our house last August and were so excited to finally own our own home. The week after we moved in we were out back with our dachshund, Toby, playing and noticed that someone had egged our fence. The way that the egg had cracked against the fence it was easy to tell which backyard they were thrown from. They have a teenage son so we decided just to keep an eye on him to see if anything happens again. A few days later DH and I are sitting in our living room (that has an entire wall of windows that face our backyard) with the windows open. Toby was in the backyard and all of the sudden we see him running like mad and barking. Brian stands up and sees several eggs come flying over the fence at Toby. He runs out in the backyard and starts yelling at the kid but he ran off and we heard his backdoor slam. So Brian went over to have a chat with his Dad. Guess what? No one would answer the door.
So Brian called the PD to see if we could file any charges for animal cruelty since the point was obviously to hit Toby. They said that we couldn't prove that he was trying to hit Toby and since there was no property damage that a police report wouldn't be worth filing.
Fast forward to about 2 weeks later. My husband walks outside one Saturday morning to get the newspaper and comes right back inside and just says "Follow Me". On our driveway someone had lovingly and meticulously spray painted a rather large ... uh... piece of male anatomy
It was taller than me if I laid on top of it. They also spray painted some vulgar stuff on the side of our privacy fence that faces their house.
PD called again, this time they came out and took a report. But they were reluctant to even go talk to the neighbor because we couldn't prove it was him. When they did the dad gave the whole "My kid doesn't do things like that" speal and acted so offended we would even think about this.
The next night? My husband's work truck got egged.


Long story short - we talked to some of the other neighbors and the kid has done similar things to other neighbors before. BTW .... since no one would do anything about this we left the large spray paint graffiti on our driveway until the HOA said something about it. Then we filled them in. Shortly after that the kid got shipped off to military school!!!
Turns out he was selling prescription drugs at school. Dummy.
Anyways...apparently school's out for the summer! Last night DH was checking the chemicals in the pool and dum dum from next door popped his head over the fence when he saw Brian and Brian saw him the kid dropped back down and took off running in his house. Brian climbed up on the fence and saw that he had dropped his arsenal of eggs when he ran. Later that evening, we heard the dogs going crazy while out to potty. Can you guess? Our yard was bombarded with cracked eggs and Olive even had muck all over her which tells me that he hit her.
I am so livid right now. The PD really isn't doing much to help. I don't know if it's because we live in a small town and they just don't want to deal with it? Or if it's because maybe they know the dad? But I'm getting really PO'd. Brian wants to hide out in the back yard while the dogs are out playing one evening and as soon as he starts launching eggs pop him with the bb gun. While it would be entertaining, I really don't want to sink to this boys level (and possibly get in trouble for shooting a minor!!!).
Any suggestions? Sorry for the lengthy post...
ETA: We live in a very nice neighborhood that is only about 5 or 6 years old. I guess I could understand this a little more if we lived in a bad part of town. Bah.
So Brian called the PD to see if we could file any charges for animal cruelty since the point was obviously to hit Toby. They said that we couldn't prove that he was trying to hit Toby and since there was no property damage that a police report wouldn't be worth filing.

Fast forward to about 2 weeks later. My husband walks outside one Saturday morning to get the newspaper and comes right back inside and just says "Follow Me". On our driveway someone had lovingly and meticulously spray painted a rather large ... uh... piece of male anatomy

PD called again, this time they came out and took a report. But they were reluctant to even go talk to the neighbor because we couldn't prove it was him. When they did the dad gave the whole "My kid doesn't do things like that" speal and acted so offended we would even think about this.
The next night? My husband's work truck got egged.



Long story short - we talked to some of the other neighbors and the kid has done similar things to other neighbors before. BTW .... since no one would do anything about this we left the large spray paint graffiti on our driveway until the HOA said something about it. Then we filled them in. Shortly after that the kid got shipped off to military school!!!

Anyways...apparently school's out for the summer! Last night DH was checking the chemicals in the pool and dum dum from next door popped his head over the fence when he saw Brian and Brian saw him the kid dropped back down and took off running in his house. Brian climbed up on the fence and saw that he had dropped his arsenal of eggs when he ran. Later that evening, we heard the dogs going crazy while out to potty. Can you guess? Our yard was bombarded with cracked eggs and Olive even had muck all over her which tells me that he hit her.
I am so livid right now. The PD really isn't doing much to help. I don't know if it's because we live in a small town and they just don't want to deal with it? Or if it's because maybe they know the dad? But I'm getting really PO'd. Brian wants to hide out in the back yard while the dogs are out playing one evening and as soon as he starts launching eggs pop him with the bb gun. While it would be entertaining, I really don't want to sink to this boys level (and possibly get in trouble for shooting a minor!!!).
Any suggestions? Sorry for the lengthy post...
ETA: We live in a very nice neighborhood that is only about 5 or 6 years old. I guess I could understand this a little more if we lived in a bad part of town. Bah.
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