Hate crime?

[Guest guest]

Last night about 2:30 a.m. some lovely people (teenagers, from what we saw

drive off...and my guess would be from my daughter's high school, I am sure)

decided to egg our house...except they went for the " kill " ...threw the eggs

at the glass in our front door and shattered 3 of the stained glass

panes...eggs and glass went flying through the house. I have egg on the dog,

the leather couch, table, carpet, front of my display cabinet, leather

recliner, and glass sprayed clear to the kitchen (quite a distance from the

front door).

The police came out and said that whoever did it had to be virtually

standing on the FRONT PORCH when they threw the eggs...no other houses or

cars in the neighborhood got this, so he said it appeared to be targeted

specifically at someone in our family AND was intended to do lots of damage

(which it did). I hate to jump to conclusions, but right now I am jumping

all over the place! (Let's just say the idea of " hate " crime came into my

mind immediately!) Looks like this " criminal mischief " is going to cost us

about $500 at a minimum (that we don't have right now.)

Anyway, we spent an hour and a half last night trying to clean up (at 3:00

a.m.), and I am still finding glass shards all in the carpet in the living

room (even in the dog's fur!) - plus I can't seem to get all the egg off the

leather furniture (or out of the dog's fur...looks like a bath for my poor

12 year old dog with seizures and diabetes today!).

Has anyone on the list ever encountered anything like this that appears to

be related to their child's disability? I wouldn't think that IF other

houses had been egged, too, or if it had been the cars but through the front

door? And they had to get up close to be able to throw them that hard!

I don't know....

nna