[Peace-discuss] vandalism inventory growing

[Ricky Baldwin]

Just a quick note:

Lisa and I were talking, and we'd like to try a tally
of all the adverse events from sign-theft to dead
animals and slashed tires.  Our thought is to provide
this list to the police with dates, names, addresses
and phone numbers of those who experienced these
things.  Some have been reported, but others really
should be to help show a pattern - and in case
anything worse happens.  

We'd also like to follow up with Channel 3 or some
other station about further acts of vandalism.

I'll volunteer to collect these stories if folks want
to email them to me.  Or someone else can do it.

Ricky

--- Lisa Chason <chason at shout.net> wrote:
> 
> Just want to share with folks this very disturbing
> occurrence. My family and I were away for some days.
> When we returned late Saturday night there was
> something lying in the middle of the driveway, not
> far from the road. In the morning we went to
> inspect. There were four dead animals in front of
> our house, next to the No Iraq War sign. A big posum
> with a dead mouse in its mouth, a skunk, a rabbit
> and a squirrel. The possum and skunk are on the
> driveway, the squirrel and rabbit on the grass but
> our neighbors tell us they were all in a line on the
> driveway on Friday morning. I've just finished
> giving an interview to Channel 3 news, thanks to
> Ricky who has been working with them for coverage of
> vandalism to peace signs. By the way, our sign had
> been stolen soon after it was put up, and we had set
> out a new one a couple of weeks ago. We are the only
> house with a sign on our street although there are
> many in the neighborhood. Both of the neighbors I've
> talked to think it's because of the sign (in case
> you're wondering,we have fine relations with our
> neighbors and I can't imagine any other reason for
> this happening...). The neighbors called the police
> on Friday and an officer came out to look. I called
> them yesterday and they were rather dismissive --
> can't say for sure why it's happened, maybe it's
> just road-kill(!), have to establish a pattern
> before can reasonably suspect something intentional,
> blah,blah,blah. Soon the animal removal people will
> be here. Now we're blessing the souls of those poor
> animals and trying to gain strength from their
> sacrifice. The report will be on Ch. 3 tonight at
> 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00.


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