Bless Your Heart

Saturday J was getting ready to go to work when he heard this strange popping noise and saw Nelson acting all interested in something out the window. So J peeks out through the blinds and sees our next door neighbor kid, M, and his next door neighbor kid D, shooting paint balls at the oak tree in our front yard. J runs and grabs the digital camera and hunkers down on the floor of the spare room with Nelson and the stakeout begins. J sees these kids (both about 11 years old) paintball our house (brick- not so easy to clean). Then they go across the street and commence target practice on the neighbor’s truck. J sees that M’s mom’s not home, so he waits until she comes home before confronting the kids. While waiting he photographs the damage to our house (and J’s car!!) and collects some paintballs that hadn’t exploded yet from our front yard- and get this- he totally bags and tags them. He put them in a ziploc bag and labeled them with “Paintballs- 1/18/03”. So very CSI. He slides the baggie and the camera into his pocket and goes next door. Now unfortunately for J, M’s mom doesn’t speak much English. M & D start denying the whole thing of course and just as the mom turns back to J he whips out the evidence. Busted! So J lectures them a bit and marches them across the street to clean up the neighbors truck. When I got home he had me upload all of the pictures (I’ll post later-although they aren’t very exciting) and save them all to a disk. If it happens again, my Columbo is and on the case and ready to take on any perp!