Dear Neighbors,
On Saturday March 21, we got home from an overnight vacation and noticed that our plumbing clean out was backed up and over flowing on our property.
We immediately called the City and had someone work on it for over one hour. However since it was backed up on our property they said we would have to call a plumber.
We then call a plumber “after hours” to have someone come out. It was determined that there were 2 to 3 feet of gravel put down out valve and he would have to come back in the morning to flush it out of the system. The next day he responded and worked on it for a couple more hours and had thought the problem had been fixed.
Unfortunately, the sand we put around the hole remained wet this week and we had to call the plumbers again on Friday, March 27 to see what else the problem was. After over 3 hours of work they managed to pull out 6 or 7 sticks (one being over 3 feet long and 3 inches wide) from an old dresser that broke and was put in the trash the first week of March, along with dozens of rocks, wire, and miscellaneous other things.
The reason I am telling you this is because we have asked several of the children in our neighborhood if they have seen anyone do this and none of them said a thing. I am asking you as parents to talk to your children about this incident (or if you overhear them talking about it) to please let us know who it was.
Unfortunately, this has not been the only incident on our property. After several request to the children in the neighborhood to stay out of our back yard (for fear of one of them getting hurt) our house has been egged and water balloons thrown at our house, our vehicles, and visitors vehicles. There seems to be a level of animosity that goes beyond simply “kids being kids.”
I know we can all admit to being children and doing stupid things at time but I believe in order to grow as a good adult we have to take responsibility for our actions and respect other people’s property. This act of vandalism cost us several hundred dollars to have fixed. If you hear anything, please let us know in order for us to resolve whatever conflict they may have against us.
Please remind your children to respect other people’s property. I really do not want to be the mean neighbor however, when the home that we work so hard on maintain is disrespected over and over again I do not know what else to do besides talk to each parent.
Feel free to call us anytime if you have any questions or information for us that may help us get our friendly neighborhood back.
Sincerely,
Brooke and Ryan Smith
There you have it, I hand delivered 20 of these to our surrounding neighbors, all of which were well received, hopefully this wont cause anymore problems and the children will learn something. I would really like some of them to come forward and tell me who did it but I am not holding my breath. I think my letter released a lot of build up anger and a constructive way, what do you think?!? What would you have done?!?
1 comment:
Brooke,
I think it was a good, well written letter, and I think you did the right thing. Love ya,
Dad
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