Driving down through an out-of-the-way neighborhood or winding rural road is somewhat of a rare luxury for most. But, for those that live in these areas, it can be hell. As in getting your mailbox smashed every weekend by thrill-seeking teenagers, kind of hell.
In my neighborhood, where I grew up, it happened a lot. My mailbox was destroyed on several occasions – so much so, that my father and I built a large mailbox from brick to detract would-be smashers.
Another father-son duo, Greg Fisher and his son Dustin, in Hatley, Wis. also grew weary of their mailbox receiving a fatal blow four times in two weeks, that they conducted a stakeout in their front yard to catch the vandals.
(More details after the jump)
“We only did this because we felt very violated and targeted by whoever was doing it,” said Greg’s wife, Kim Fisher.
The men watched as s pickup drove up at 3 a.m. and smashed the mailbox with a bat. Dustin, who was waiting in the family’s car in the driveway, then pursued the truck in a high-speed chase – getting a partial ID on the plate. However, it wasn’t enough to identify the truck, so the Fisher family searched on.
They eventually found the pickup in a local convenience store, where they then blocked the truck in the parking lot and awaited for police to arrive. Police arrested three 16-year olds and a 19-year old.
Lt. Randy Albert of the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department said, “This one ended peacefully, but taking the law into your own hands can have tragic results as well,” urging citizens to not become vigilantes.
Vigilantes? I am so tired of the media and the donut cops overusing this term. What was he afraid of? That someone managed for once to do the job he apparently was utterly incapable of performing - finding the vandals?
Kudos to Greg and Dustin.
They should have been commended by the police. Most people would have been tempted to exact retribution on the perps and then give the police whatever was left over when they finished.
Cops dislike non-cops for all kinds of reasons . . .
If it takes a couple of civilians to do a simple stake-out, how lame are the cops in this town?
If it takes a couple of civilians to do a simple stake-out, how lame are the cops in this town?
You think it’s different anywhere else?
smashed mailboxes aren’t exactly high on the list of things to do stakeouts for.
IT WOULED HAVE BEEN BETTER IF THE POLICE PRASIED THER CONDUCT INSTED OF MOCKING THEM. IT JUST MADE THE POLICE SEAM FOOLISH.
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