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Sorry to hear about the lawn - had two cars wreck on my property a little over a year ago in one accident - hit trees on opposite ends of property and took out both my two of my neighbors mailboxes and mine, wrecked a rhody bush and dug a nice trench before hitting a tree. All 'undocumented workers' and no one claiming to be the drivers. Both cars totalled and left at the scene when they all took off in third vehicle. Case of empties in one of the cars. No one ever showed up later with offer to fix lawn, pay for mailboxes, etc. Not that I really expected it, but it would have been nice.
About 1 month ago - getting out of car and getting mail when I see a guy drive over the neighbors yard on opposite side of street from me, start fishtailing a bit and then takes out the next neighbors mailbox and continues right on down the road. Couldn't get the plate. I brought the mailbox up to their door and talked to the wife - she says it happens all the time.
Heard a good story at sister-in-laws cookout yesterday. One of the guys there grew up in rural Missouri (is that redundant), anyway, supposedly his father has some land down there and had a problem with kids doing some driving and burnouts in his field. One of the kids gets his car stuck and takes off - probably to get a friend to pull him out. His father goes out with his 30/30 and shoots 6 rounds into the car. Kid comes back with tow truck pull the car out and the sherrif was called. Kid wants the sherrif to do something about the damaged car as he can't believe that his car got all shot up and damaged. Sherrif tells the kid that he has no 'proof' that the landowner shot up the car, and that he might be be the one that gets dealt with as his car was tearing up the field. If the car was not in the field in the first place then it would not have been damaged. No one charged, but lesson learned for one punk kid.
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