PWRTRIP....right? Like we couldn't have come up with this article on our own just being citizens. People are going to have to learn how to pick their battles, and this one will never be won! I think kids could be doing a lot worse things. And some are.

OMG call in the guards. Smashed pumpkins....damaged mailboxes....now that's something none of us have heard before. If the police (no disrespect....I love the police) have time to search for pumpkin smashing mailbox hitting vandals....I am worried. Come on! Many more people out there that need to be searched for then a few silly pumpkin tossers.

Thursday and Friday night the enchanted forest at Palmer park found a lot of theft taken place to props, extension cords, flood lights. A carriage buggy had major damage that carried Cinderella. The list can go on but the point is that little kids who come to events to visit fairy land stories where left in the dark until more supplies could be bought. This theft cost this program $100's of dollars. I just hope that someone who may know who took this equipment will call crime stoppers or the JVL police.

actually this doesnt just happen on halloween , the minute the pumpkins have good size to them it starts, last year in edgerton they took out about 100 boxes the week before halloween , unfortunately one street had all senior citizens on it , then the same street got hit again during xmas break, this time they plowed over the poles and the box, some of these people barely make it check to check, so to call this a harmless prank when it s actually property damage is crazy

Seems pretty harmless and petty to me. The Feds have to focus on wall street. Hell I did worse and look at me...ooops. did I say that outloud?.

I grew up in the country and the "broken mailbox" was always on my mind. :)

Damaging mailboxes is a federal offense and conviction results in a felony record.
Felons cannot vote, serve in the military, get student loans, and the list goes on.

Harmless Halloween prank...not this one.

I'm not sure about King street but I know pumpkins are way too expensive to throw at a mailbox. Maybe an ex. Just kidding. It seemed a pretty nice Halloween to me. Great weather.

Anyone hear what happened on King St. last night? There were cops and fire trucks all over. One cop let out a K-9 unit. Fire trucks left after a couple min but the cops were still around for a while.

Wow, pumpkins thrown at mailboxes this just is shocking that this would happen and on Halloween that just adds to the mystery of why this happened!

they will be sorry if they get caught , in richland county they saw four teens hit one box, the judge made them pay for every mail box that was damaged recently , each one with fines owed over 4000.00, and got probation , w/condition they are in school or have a full time job , 3 ended up doing the jail time , i dont think parents really get how important it is to stress to kids today what seems like a harmless prank , may get you in real trouble, everytime school is out for a couple of days this happens all over, what we found works is a metal fence post , probably wont help to much with pumpkins , but you put it on the side of each box 3-4 inches back from the front, and about and 3 inches from the box, then when they got to hit in the dark they dont see the fence post till its to late, couple of time s they swung something we heard crash, what ever they swung bounced off post and hit their back door window out, glass all over wonder what they told mommy and daddy

How is this fun? (Brodhead area)
We had car battery thrown at our mailbox. Again when a a new mailbox put up it too was damaged.
I do hope these people get work so they are too tired at night to go around damaging mailboxes.