Urban Jacksonville

They finally did it. Saturday night around 7:00 a rock came crashing through my side window. The kids who live in the apartments on 8th street between Silver and Laura have been throwing stuff in my yard and at my house for months now. Beer bottles, rocks, those little potatoes that fall off the tree vines.

I didn’t see the person(s) that did it. I was out getting dinner and Mackenzie was upstairs getting the baby ready for bed. For all I know it could have been a jacked-up crackhead, but I’m pretty sure its the kids from the apartments. Is this Karma, or maybe retribution for all the bad shit I did when I was a kid. Sure I’ve broken a few windows in my time, so I can’t get too pissed, but I’m a little pissed.

I lamely filed a police report and emailed Craig Van Horn who owns the apartments. I pleaded with Craig to fix the fence behind the apartments. The broken fence allows easy back-and-forth access between the alley the separates our two positions. It’s really easy to chunk a rock from the alley, then run back to the safety of the apartment. Craig promised last week to mend the fence so maybe my email will help expedite the process and prevent any futher broken windows.

*Sigh*

tags: springfield, broken window

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http://www.downtownparks.com Downtownparks

Sorry to hear about your window getting broken.

I heard that the house that was just built down from you at the corner of 7th and Silver also got hooked up…

I think those apartments need to have a small tactical nuclear device, not a mended fence… Eitherway, I know Im not holding my breath for that fence to get mended.
daniel

It has been mended sevral times under the previous owner. Back when we had the tranny hooker explosion a couple of years back that was their escape route. They would ply their trade up and down our block and when the cops showed up after we called them they would scatter between our houses and hide back there.

The kids playing back there has been a recent devlopment.
vicupstate

If they kids have been throwing things for months, and got a way with it, I think that gave them the invitation to go further. That or they just got better or worse (depending on their intentions) with there aim.
http://blogger rachel mclean

that subject line sounds like something from dennis the menace.
sorry about your window.
karma maybe, but it gave you something to entertain us with.
:)
http://blog.gknee.org Jeanne

Sorry about your window. Sounds from the previous comments that the alley is a known issue. Hope it gets taken care of soon.
http://absentmindedthoughts.blogspot.com/ Mrite (Tom)

On a brighter note…

School starts in August now, rather than the day after Labor Day (like when I was a kid).

Hopefully, they will attend school when it reopens :-)
http://www.shorepound.net Nathan Arnold

Bummer about the window. Have you talked to these kids? Why do they throw stuff into your yard? Do they throw stuff into other people’s yards? Have you considered getting a dog?
http://www.urbanjacksonville.info joeymarchy

I haven’t actually seen them doing it. I would love to talk to them, but they are pretty elusive. I do have a dog, but I also have a 6 foot privacy fence. Which they can hide behind and chunk stuff over.
http://www.shorepound.net Nathan Arnold

I see. Well, I look forward to reading more about this cat and mouse game, and I hope that your detective skills are sharp. You must bring these hoodlums to justice!
Grimly Fiendish

Baseball has been berry berry good to me. Maybe they just need a better outlet.

Damn kids broke my window

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