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Someone knocked on my door at 2:30am

10 years ago

The school district my daughter goes to has had two high schools for the past 6 years, and try as they may, the district can not get them to be friends over foes. My daughter's school is 5A and the other school has been going between a 5A and a 6A. This is the first time the two schools have met in a soccer match. I woke up around 2:30am to use the restroom (which I usually don't do) and heard a knock on my front door. I could see a shadow of someone on the porch so I peeked out the window and saw that our house had been toilet papered. A kid was outside and wanted me to know that he was going to clean it up before the rain started. He knows my daughter and happened to be driving by (he goes to her school). I went to get my phone to take a picture and he came back and said his friend was there to get him and he had to leave. The tpers also took out my garden flag stand and left a t-shirt from the opposing school. Four other houses got toilet papered, but one house got goop thrown on their deck and some ground lights broken. We will be playing at the other school and they usually play on a grass field with a limited amount of bleacher space. Today they announced they are moving it to the turf field/football field. At first I was a little tiffed, but remembered it was all in good fun (not the goop and lights). I hope the game can be competitive and everyone can just have a good time. I'll let you know how it turns out. Btw, we did not beat the rain, but got all the toilet paper cleaned up.

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loonlakelaborcamp

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

1st of all, all this is vandalism, and in my area, both teams are notified, and in some cases, the team that did this may have to forfeit the game. The coaches come down HARD on any of their team members involved with those deeds. Their own players get benched if there is even a whiff of them doing this stuff. (Planting flags, flamingos, signs are tolerated. TPing, breaking things, trampling things is not).

2nd, why was any kid (from either school) running around at 2:30 a.m.?

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jewels_ks
Original Author
10 years ago
One of the houses that got tp'd has cameras and they are looking at it to see if they can recognize anyone. The head soccer mom called me to ask if I had any damage and I did tell her that the principal needs to be notified of what happened.
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phoggie
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Sorry this happened to your house. I hope your daughter and team win their soccer game and also the state tournament. My Grand-daughter is playing in state tournament in McPherson right now. I wanted to go so badly....but the weather forecast sounded like there might be storms in the area and the a 2 hour drive back home by myself.

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workoutlady
10 years ago
I agree this is vandalism but it could be that this was not the doing of the actual team members and was instead the team spectators. If that is the case, the team should not be punished. If they find that it was members of the team, then they should deal with that by not letting those students play. In my area, they would remove the players for a full year. They can practice but not play an actual game. Seems fair to me.
ratherbesewing
10 years ago
Why is a high schooler out and about at 2:30 AM?
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10 years ago
auntie_jemima

I say you handled that well. If that happened at my house they would be looking down the barrel of my colt .45 pistol.

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Judas H. Priest, are you kidding me? It's TOILET PAPER!
jewels_ks
Original Author
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The game went well, but we lost, and most kids acted well. All administration was there and kept any acting up to a minimum. There was a huge crowd there which is good for the district. My daughter played her heart out and I'm really proud of her and her team for a good year.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
10 years ago
Every once in awhile, a few trees all over the neighborhood get the TP treatment and it's always been by and to area high school students. Sometimes, the hazing goes a little too far but I'm not aware of any damage to property.

The high school junior across the street was clearly pleased by the attention when it happened to her, as if it was a popularity test. Daddy wasn't so happy, though.

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