What neighborhood did this happen in? Thats kinda scary.

In the country,you lock your doors and roll up your windows to keep out critters.

You might find tracks and nose smudges on your truck but your seats,dash and horde

of snacks will be intact.

I know a lot of it was around the 231 North area in the houses close behind the Huddle House and also around Butler and those streets along there. I also heard at least one in the county. Did they ever catch them, has anyone heard? I hope so, probably teenagers with nothing better to do.

Oh damn thats close to my house:( Do you think it is people that live nearby in little mexico or drivebys?

Well, i know of a few kids that aren't even out of Thomas that have vandalized stuff in my yard. I had to chase them about 3 blocks to a trailer part, once I got there I saw them lurking and they ran into a mobile home. I waited a few hours until I saw an adult approach the house. His was a hispanic guy, "that couldn't speak english." Yet I heard him speak english to the girl that just dropped him off...

Luckily I spoke spanish (only 3 years) and proceeded to tell him the boys in his house had damaged a few flower gardens and several of my wife's lame ornament thingies in the yard. He said, "his children have been home the entire time." I asked how he knew if he wasn't home for the past 2.5 hours? Cause I been standing here for that amount of time waiting for him. He ran inside and never came out. I decided to call the police and make a report. Never heard what happened. That was a couple weeks ago.

Coulda been those boys that he was brainwashing in his "sessions" he held... Never know?

Maybe we need a Y around here.

It could provide recreation,education,out reach programs,spiritual counseling,etc. to a lot of people.

Yes,we have other organizations providing such services but can one ever have too much help along those lines?

The Y has been doing this since 1844 and spun off the Scouts and the USO.

They've done everything from provided poor bachelors with a safe and moral place to go home to after work to assistance to prisoners of war,job training,economic development programs, teen leadership programs and treatment for Alzheimer's patients and the autistic.

If we can't get a Y,maybe we can just follow their example.

If kids get their physical,emotional and spiritual needs met,there's less likelihood they'll commit crimes.

Sometimes,parents can't provide all they need.

We can either deal with the children now or wait until they wind up in our jails and hospitals.

We can give them a good model for how to become healthy adults or endure the consequences if they have to manage without one.

It was probably kids who hve no Church upbringing

They were caught anyway.

-- Posted by michaelbell on Fri, Mar 14, 2008, at 4:11 PM

Yeah, because kids who do have a church upbringing would never do anything wrong.

Yeah, when you are brainwashed to think everthing is perfect, then you do everything in your power to prove perfect doesn't exist :)

Here I was figuring Preachers' kids erred for the same reason as everybody else.

We have human frailities.

Limited knowledge,limited self-control,hearts and minds on overdrive and a need to make our own spiritual journeys.

("God doesn't have grandkids",remember?)

Of course,we can be clever and intrepid and generous in our love,too-even if we grew up in an environment that stressed considerate and responsible behavior.

Sometimes,our children's rebellion comes in the form of their living our faith better than we do.