Apparently last night there were some pranksters in our neighborhood. I slept through all of this, but Jake has told me what happened. We have two flowerbeds in our front yard, and they are edged by some large stones. Someone thought it would be funny to move these out and put them in the road. At about 1:30 someone driving down the road hit them. It blew out their front tires and took off their oil pan. I guess the police were here and everything.
I guess Merlin went ballistic when all this was going on. There were flashing lights and noise and all kinds of stuff.
Did I mention I slept through this??
In any case, the stones are being put back in their proper place. Hopefully this doesn’t become a habit. We live in a pretty nice neighborhood, and I didn’t think this kind of thing would be common. I’m hoping that it’s not something that becomes common.
Jake also told me that according to our across the street neighbor, this kind of thing is somewhat common here. Apparently they’ve had their car broken into a couple of times. They’ve also had their mailbox broken. So from now on everything worth money comes out of my car at night. The bright side is we do have a dog that reacted to all that was going on outside. This situation does, however, make us more inclined to work on letting Merlin stay out of his crate at night time.
