I am impressed with the local police force. They found the pranksters. They chose random houses to honor with 4-5 dozens of eggs in the neighborhood.The detective suggested I submit the cost of cleaning. It’s too much trouble getting someone out to get an estimate and I am not sure if it’s an appropriate punishment. I think they should bring a bucket and clean up what’s left. I could of course let go but the poor guy went door to door looking for a culprit. What would you do?
They clean it up and write a letter of apology of at least 3 paragraphs. You get to decide if they have cleaned it up well enough.
I love the apology letter idea!
Clean it ASAP before the sun bakes it on!
Personally, I would not want them working at my own house for various reasons. How about in lieu of payment, they work at a food bank, pantry, or homeless shelter for x hours, Might be a good reminder that they shouldn’t waste food that others could have benefitted from.
Love doschicos suggestions. Perhaps it would be an eyeopener and a humbling experience. I agree that I would not want them around my home. Who would you submit the cost of the cleaning to? Are they being charged and would have to make a court appearance?
Appropriate punishment: You get to break a raw egg on their head.
Clean it up pronto. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to clean. Then send the bill to the parents via whatever route the sheriff recommended.
I highly doubt the youngsters will do any community service. I expect the following will happen: their parents will come to their defense and will argue that it is going to be a cruel punishment not commensurate with the scope of their “mistake.” Happens all the time…
Agree with cleaning it up promptly and timing how long it takes you and finding hourly cleaning rate in your area and submitting a bill for that amount—e.g. 4 hours x $12 hours = $48 plus community service of 24 hours plus 3 paragraph hand-written apology.
They are local prep school boys. I doubt money will do much. I don’t think I get to hand out punishment. I Also doubt they will be charged unless I press charges. Can I even get to press charges? It’s rather minor, all in the name of fun, as annoying as it is.
Their parents might be reading cc. 
If your car got egged, its clear coat paint might be damaged. It could cost $$$$ to get it back to its original shine.
Egging could fall into vandalism depending on your state and local laws:
Police got involved. They sent out a detective. So I guess it’s a crime in my municipality. Maybe that’s why they are offering cleaning-up money. I guess that means I could press charges. I clean up some. But some landed on flagstone and stained it. It didn’t wash off in my first try. Not sure if it’s permanent.
I’m sure their wealthy parents could afford to pay for a few new pieces of flagstone…
We had an instance of vandalism in our old neighborhood where kids destroyed the new trees we planted along the entire street. Their parents came in screaming that (a) their nice boys could not have done it (we had witnesses) and (b) in the alternative, those trees were so cheap we made a mountain out of a molehill. Guess what happened to the punks eventually? Juvie. When they set some bushes on fire and almost burned the fence and the house…
BB-that’s too bad. If that were my kid they would be paying for any damage and if not cleaning the car or walk (since it needed immediate attention) they’d be doing whatever chores the victim had for them for a Saturday.
I agree though that you might not want them near your home however.
I would personally hate to press charges on “egging” though. Even good kids get stupid. Kids just don’t realize how damaging it can be.
“I would personally hate to press charges on “egging” though. Even good kids get stupid. Kids just don’t realize how damaging it can be.”
I agree and that’s why I personally would ask for some kind of community service in lieu of pressing charges. Presenting a bill for expenses will likely just be paid for by Bank of Mom and Dad and what is the lesson in that? Maybe a Saturday spent helping others might prevent the kid from thinking twice and not doing something stupid the next time that could result in Juvie.
Oh if my kid did something like that, they would be in a big doghouse.
Agree on not pressing the charges but making them pay. Maybe in a small claims court -?
In our neighborhood case, the bushes on fire was an arson, which is a felony. The sheriff took the ring leader into custody on the spot as he was hiding behind some trash cans watching the fire trucks trying to extinguish the flames. Yeah, we let the trees “skate.” Someone else let the paint cans thrown onto the driveway (resulting in couple of grand in damage) “skate”… Karma caught up with the punk. His mom could not get him a “skate free” card for the arson.
Community services around don’t usually want student volunteers. They come make mess that takes staff to clean up. My kid also went to a private school and I know what it can be. I was at an MLK event one year with volunteers from my kid’s school. The job was painting the wall at a local underprivileged school. I had to stay behind to help clean up the mess some of the kids left behind. Needlessly to say, we didn’t get invited to the site ever again.
Let the ideas keep coming how to hold these kids accountable.
Well, if the “bank of mom and dad” had to pay I’d be sure to collect from my kids.
As would I but many parents wouldn’t so how do the kids learn from that?
I’d probably do like I always do–hope for the best and give benefit of the doubt until stretched too thin.
I remember growing up that a house on our street was egged and big white soap x’s. It was dark gray paint and the stain was there for years before eventually being painted. Every kid knew who did it. And probably the parents too.
Sad commentary for the most part–but those kids did grow up to become responsible adults. They must’ve learned something along the line.