Around 12:35am on November 1st, my wife and I are awakened from our sleep with a big CRASH - BAM sound.
We carefully go to our living room and I notice the blinds behind our picture window are a bit uneven. Oh yeah, and there's glass on the floor...pulling up the blinds reveals this...
Wonder how that happened...maybe it has something to do with this rock that's imbedded in our wall, which is
14 feet away from the window!
Another shot of the rock in the wall shows how close it came to the recliner I typically sit on if I have a bit of heartburn at night. It would have missed my head by mere inches. Had I been sitting there, and had the rock been thrown a little more to the right, and I wouldn't be typing this right now...
I guess the guy had a backup plan in case the rock malfunctioned. It was a brick:
These aren't small stones, btw: (Yes, I learned the ruler trick from all those CSI shows...
)
We suspect the perp threw the rock from just outside the front window, and with a substantial amount of force in order to leave such an impact on the wall, which was probably 25 feet away, and 10 feet above where he stood:
The next day, here's what our pretty picture looked like:
The police quickly ruled out some prankster teenagers - they typically throw less solid objects like eggs, and they throw these things from the street. (There's a tree between the street and the window - the rock and brick would have been caught up in it's branches)
We are pretty sure we know who did this, but I cannot state anything further here due to legalities. Suffice it to say, this guy used Halloween as a 'cover' for a malicious attack on us. I believe he meant to use this as a scare tactic, and I doubt he was expecting to hit anyone. That said, whenever someone hurls a large rock into a dark house, you never know what you are going to hit - that hole in the wall could have been my head.
The police took the rock & brick, but there's no way prints could be pulled off of them. Without any further evidence, they really cannot pursue anyone in this matter...
I hate Halloween.
-Z-man.