Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The bitterest pill
Well, that was hard. I wanted to type this last night but was too upset. Calmed down a bit now.
Following the, ahem, "adventures" of late I finally got round to giving the van a good clean last night. I knew it was a hell of a state but I really wasn't expecting it to be worse than I'd suspected. Wanton and willfull vandalism is a horrible thing to be in the midst of.
Not only was the bedding and the carpet beyond reasonable use - burns, ground in goodness knows what - but everything else had been trashed too...and then attempts made to hide the carnage. What kind of lowlife rips the arms off a child's booster seat, trashes a kids kite or sets fire to a pair of binoculars? I never thought it would be rural lowlife, that's for sure.
Still, we know who did it and so do the police. The culprits have even been to the door to apologise! That was a bit of a shock I have to say...
Weirdo that I am I took photos of the wreckage but can't display them as it's too upsetting. My main focus now is to get the bus sorted and back on the road. It may have been an odd and perhaps unnecessary thing to do but we binned most of the stuff in the van as we felt that with the amount of moving about of our stuff that had been done, we couldn't be sure things hadn't been tampered with...if this seems extreme, let me just say the two words to strike fear into the hearts of even Kim and Aggie...used condoms.
With that thought I shall leave you for the evening.
Well, that was hard. I wanted to type this last night but was too upset. Calmed down a bit now.
Following the, ahem, "adventures" of late I finally got round to giving the van a good clean last night. I knew it was a hell of a state but I really wasn't expecting it to be worse than I'd suspected. Wanton and willfull vandalism is a horrible thing to be in the midst of.
Not only was the bedding and the carpet beyond reasonable use - burns, ground in goodness knows what - but everything else had been trashed too...and then attempts made to hide the carnage. What kind of lowlife rips the arms off a child's booster seat, trashes a kids kite or sets fire to a pair of binoculars? I never thought it would be rural lowlife, that's for sure.
Still, we know who did it and so do the police. The culprits have even been to the door to apologise! That was a bit of a shock I have to say...
Weirdo that I am I took photos of the wreckage but can't display them as it's too upsetting. My main focus now is to get the bus sorted and back on the road. It may have been an odd and perhaps unnecessary thing to do but we binned most of the stuff in the van as we felt that with the amount of moving about of our stuff that had been done, we couldn't be sure things hadn't been tampered with...if this seems extreme, let me just say the two words to strike fear into the hearts of even Kim and Aggie...used condoms.
With that thought I shall leave you for the evening.
