"Rockin" New Year's

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toadofpack

"Rockin" New Year's

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new year

2009

vandalisim

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Sorry about the language, but my heart is racing. As the New Year began, I was talking to a cop.

So Shady and I were asleep, as is our New Year's tradition. There were two loud pops and that tinkle-y sound of raining glass. As I startled awake, I could feel something falling on me.

We got up and turned on the lights to find a hole in the oriental screen that sits in front of the window.

Here's a quick and dirty map so you know what I'm talking about:

Shady threw on a sweater to pop her head outside, and I got out of bed, laying my hand against the wall for leverage (my side of the bed is furthest from the purple lines, which represent windows. It's about two feet from bed to wall) and I could feel a hole in the plaster (the red X) under a cool blanket we have hung up on that wall. Pulled up the corner of the blanket to find a huge hole in the plaster.

(with Shady's hand for size comparison)

At this point, I was thinking gun fire. I went into the bathroom to wash the particles off me, as I was sleeping topless and had crap all over me. Then I called 911. I started out saying I thought someone had shot at us, but as I talked to the operator, I found the big ass rock someone had hurled through the window.

So looking at this map, someone stood on the sidewalk, threw a big rock over the chain link fence, through the window (the purple line), then it traveled over Shady and I to smash into the wall where the second red X is. It's probably 5 feet from the window to the bed, and at least that from the fence to the house, to allow for car parking, and then about two feet from my side of the bed to the wall. Whoever did it had a hell of an arm.

As I was on the phone with 911, she told me that they were already responding to a report of someone breaking a window at the neighbor's house, which is across a small cul-de-sac ----> that way.

We put the cats in the bathroom and shut the door (after checking them over for wounds) and I went outside to make sure they hadn't smashed any car windows. Just as I got outside, the police pulled up. He looked around and listened to what happened, and went and talked to the neighbors. Grandpa's coming over in the morning to help fix the window, which Shady is putting a board over tonight to keep some of the cold out.

If either of us had been sitting up, we would have been hit. If either of the cats had been sleeping on top of one of us, they would have been hit. If Shady hadn't rearranged the bedroom recently, the bed would still have been up against the wall with the red X on it, and the rock would have fallen into my bed after smashing into the wall, probably hitting me in the head.

So....how did you spend your New Year's?