Neighborhood Vandals?

So last night brought in some serious storms. The lighting flashed and the thunder crashed and the power went out around 2am. Naturally, we ended up with one child in our bed who mysteriously ended up back in her own bed by the time I woke up with my cell phone alarm at 6...ok, 6:15.

Thing is, when I went out this morning to put my Netflix in the mailbox (MST3K: Eegah = hilarious), I noted that my mailbox was laying in the grass. Odd, I thought, but then again, the storm last night was quite an event, so I didn't think it was too unreasonable that my mailbox (which wasn't attached too well to its post) was finally just blown off by the storm. But when I picked it up and tried to hand-pound it back onto the post (yes, that means pound it with my fist, like I'm so strong I can nail it into place by just hitting it), my neighbor across the street walked over and let me know that it might not have been the storm that knocked it off.

You see, on Sunday morning, we noticed that our car had been egged. That sort of thing doesn't happen in our neighborhood too much. Our corner of the world is so quiet, in fact, that one day, I failed to shut the front door when we left and nothing at all happened. But my neighbor told me that his mailbox was knocked off about a week and a half ago, and on Sunday morning, he found glass had been smashed against his garage door. He said my next door neighbor had obsenities written (I assume, in the dirt) on the rear window of his vehicle.

He told me that he has noticed three youngsters from the house that was recently moved into only two houses down from him had been out late at night/early morning before, and although he hasn't seen them do anything, the fact that they've been out on the street so late doesn't lend them to automatic innocence either. He plans on going over there to mention it to the parents, at least, so we'll see how that goes. If I get up tomorrow morning and his house is TP'd, we'll know they got the message.

Just to touch on that MST3K... Eegah is a really poorly made movie. The situations are laughable and even disturbing (not in a good way either). The dialogue is pathetic. The sound engineering was moronic (voice layering in the desert?). And how did they manage to miss the director (or whoever) telling the actors to "watch out for snakes"? But naturally, all these points of oversight made for an extremely hilarious time with the comedic minds at MST3K making their commentary throughout this sad little flick.

When the whoever said "watch out for snakes," they popped in with "who said that?" and I laughed for probably 2 minutes straight. Had to pause the movie. When the people "checked the time," a hand holding a watch was in the next cut, which prompted the question, "whose hand was that?" Every time the rather odd looking love interest got a close up, they uttered a shocked "Aah!" Normally, I don't comment on the MST3K shows because they make fun of bad movies, which even I enjoy doing, but this one was easily the funniest one I've ever seen.

Oh, and their suggestion for how the characters could get out of the caveman Eegah's cave? Oh, just cut through the canvas on the walls.