Jupiterwise posted this to the Wallyhood Forums yesterday:
This afternoon I returned to my house near 40th and Corliss to discover that someone had stomped on our lavender and rosemary bushes, ripping off several branches, tore out a bunch of plants from our parking strip, and worst of all, took our terra cotta planting pot with two baby ginkgo trees and smashed it in our driveway.
I remember hearing a year or two ago about other gardens in the general vicinity being damaged, and I’m wondering if this is part of a similar trend. Has anyone else had this happen to them recently?
Hopefully, it was just an isolated incident. If others know of similar events, please let us (and the police) know.
My truck gets stolen and nothing, but someone’s garden is vandalized, and it makes the front page. Lame, thanks neighbors.
Sorry, man. Don’t blame the neighbors, though, blame me.
Also, try to have your truck stolen on a slow news day next time.
Wallyhood: So sorry to hear that. I hope you were able to save some
of the plantings. There is a brat element in the neighborhood which
likes to destroy public property with regularity. I’m sure the police have
an idea who they are, although my guess is these snots only run about
at night. That some creep(s) did this in broad daylight, with the likelihood
that people would be waiting for the bus or walking by to/from Irwin’s with
their dogs, etc., is sad, indeed. May the perps be caught and forced to
do several hundred hours of community service.
I dunno, but I spotted a distrubed individual tearing some bushes out of a yard – then smashing a pot in the street from the next house, all right at the corner of 40th and Latona, on Friday afternoon….several calls were made to 911 as he made his way up 40th.
By my description he was recognized by a neighbor as sometimes who is around and yells a lot. Certainly the same victims, maybe the same perp? Although I don’t think he’s capable of a truck heist – sorry bout that.
While away in early August we had some flowers cut off at the stem in our front yard, and were told by a neighbor that she’d seen some high school age kids (we’re down the street from Lincoln) cavorting around the area at night raising a bit of havoc.