Here we go again!

[Audra]

Mom got a call at 4:00 a.m. this morning, vandals threw a rock through our plate glass windows at the front of the store. There's a fourteen inch hole in our front window.

There are days where you just hate people.
Audra

 

[Luc]

Why are they picking on you!
I am wondering if maybe they are trying to see what kind of response they are going to get from security or police.
Maybe it is a way to check to break in again at a later time?

Almost look like you guys need to have cameras set up now.
Luc

 

[Audra]

Why are they picking on you!
I am wondering if maybe they are trying to see what kind of response they are going to get from security or police.
Maybe it is a way to check to break in again at a later time?

Almost look like you guys need to have cameras set up now.

It's not just us, they apparently through rocks threw the windows of a few businesses last night. I wonder if they do it to keep the cops busy elsewhere.
Our response time is uber fast, we had cops here in under five minutes (they were a block away when it happened). Hopefully the jerks will see that and think twice about doing it again.

And yea, Downtown appears to need cameras.
Audra

 

[pottyboutflowers]

it happens here too thought i was ok because i haven't any windows but instead 2 weeks before valentines a young lad of 18 already on a tag broke through the roof of my shop and trashed the place i walked in and thought the roof had colasped with the building being over 100 years old but then relised the till was open and empty(only float money £20) they caught the little **** who had broken in to 14 properties within 2 weeks, they let him out after 6 months and oh yes did it all again luckily not mine.

Potty x

 

[CHR]

Audra -

It appears someone saw the rock-throwing - http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=23307

At 2:50 this morning a male was seen getting out of a small white vehicle and throwing a rock through the window of Mann's Florist, located at 345 Queen Street East.

The vehicle was last seen driving north on Bruce Street.

This news article just hit my Google Reader.

I hope they catch the %$#&&%!.

 

[Doug Hatcher]

Thoughts, healing, strength, and protection...

Audra, I am sorry for your troubles. I am sending to all of you thoughts of healing, strength, and protection.
Doug

 

[Audra]

Audra -

It appears someone saw the rock-throwing - http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=23307 This news article just hit my Google Reader.

I hope they catch the %$#&&%!.

Yep, one of the cleaners where my husband works saw the incident. All he was able to tell the police was that it was a white car. Either way, the guy is getting a basket as a thank-you for calling the police.

Audra

 

[carol]

it happens here too thought i was ok because i haven't any windows but instead 2 weeks before valentines a young lad of 18 already on a tag broke through the roof of my shop and trashed the place i walked in and thought the roof had colasped with the building being over 100 years old but then relised the till was open and empty(only float money £20) they caught the little **** who had broken in to 14 properties within 2 weeks, they let him out after 6 months and oh yes did it all again luckily not mine.

Potty x

What's "a tag"??? something like our parole??

 

[pottyboutflowers]

What's "a tag"??? something like our parole??

it's like a big ugly grey braclet on the ankle they (newly released from jail) have to wear because of curfews it tells the police if they are not at home at 7pm, but they have ways of taking them heard someone had attached thiers to his dog!!!

 

[Sher]

It's not just us, they apparently through rocks threw the windows of a few businesses last night. I wonder if they do it to keep the cops busy elsewhere.
Our response time is uber fast, we had cops here in under five minutes (they were a block away when it happened). Hopefully the jerks will see that and think twice about doing it again.

And yea, Downtown appears to need cameras.
Audra

The saddest part is that much of this activity is done out of boredom...their activities down here range from rock throwing to beating up on the homeless...my answer for boredom is a chain gang. I for one am over the viewpoint of these snots having so many "rights". Give them the "right" to dig ditches, put up new telephone poles, mow city grasses (particulary in the middle of the summer) ....and pay back for their damages.So sorry to hear about your troubles...they did it to our window and of course it was not extensive enough to be covered by insurance...then they shoved super glue into the door locks.....these snots are the future..scary isn't it? Thank god not all kids are like that.
Sher

 

[Carrington]

these snots are the future..scary isn't it? Thank god not all kids are like that.
Sher

The scary bit is trying to keep the non-snots on the straight and narrow when all around they see such appalling behaviour. As a mature (ok old) mum of two girls (8 and 10) I find myself increasingly battling with setting standards that I think are right but other parents seem to find alien or unimportant.

For example if my girls don't say please or thank you they get the p.p.p.p.p or th.. th… th… prompt which makes their friends laugh, them embarrassed and me mortified that I am only doing what I think is right but which is obviously so not 2007 mum approach.

I've told them my role in life as a mother is to embarrass them but sometimes it is hard to know where to draw the line!

Kind regards,

Carrie

 

[vasestuffer]

carrington- you're a hoot ! -- so glad you joined us at fc !!!

(of course i also appreciate your apparently vast wisdom and experience)

kenny

 

[Kristine]

The scary bit is trying to keep the non-snots on the straight and narrow when all around they see such appalling behaviour. As a mature (ok old) mum of two girls (8 and 10) I find myself increasingly battling with setting standards that I think are right but other parents seem to find alien or unimportant.

For example if my girls don't say please or thank you they get the p.p.p.p.p or th.. th… th… prompt which makes their friends laugh, them embarrassed and me mortified that I am only doing what I think is right but which is obviously so not 2007 mum approach.

I've told them my role in life as a mother is to embarrass them but sometimes it is hard to know where to draw the line!

Kind regards,

Carrie

YOU GO GIRL!!! My kids may call me old fashioned also, but I did teach them to say please and thank you and thankfully their friends parents taught them them same. But there are many of their peers who think those words are a foreign language

A pet peave of mine is when when you do business with a company and the reply to your "thank you" is UH HUH. I had a couple of employees who started to say that and I called them on it immediately.

We Say "you're welcome" because we truly want them to be welcome and come back!

 

[Audra]

The scary bit is trying to keep the non-snots on the straight and narrow when all around they see such appalling behaviour. As a mature (ok old) mum of two girls (8 and 10) I find myself increasingly battling with setting standards that I think are right but other parents seem to find alien or unimportant.

For example if my girls don't say please or thank you they get the p.p.p.p.p or th.. th… th… prompt which makes their friends laugh, them embarrassed and me mortified that I am only doing what I think is right but which is obviously so not 2007 mum approach.

I've told them my role in life as a mother is to embarrass them but sometimes it is hard to know where to draw the line!

My mom did that to me and I've never been in trouble. Reward good behaviour, negatively react to bad. Case in point, the nice 19 year old lad who called the police when he say the jerks in question lob the rock through our window. He should be receiving his goodie basket from us as a thank you any minute. When my husband asked his mom yesterday for his address, she said 'But it was right thing to do.' Yes, but how many people actually would have done it? So he gets a 'thank you' - that's only right too.

Audra

 

[Victoria]

Sadly we are reaping the rewards of absentee parenting. I was raised to be polite, respect others and their property. My daughter was raised the same way. She can eat and commune with kings and paupers, and they all feel equal respect.

Audra... no words, just thoughts.

V