Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
In recent weeks Oshkosh has been hit by a spate of vandalism - cowardly, senseless acts committed by people with too much time on their hands and no respect for their community or other people's private property.
The city's water park was one of the first to be vandalized. That was followed by vandalism at both Webster Stanley Middle School and Oshkosh North High School. If that weren't enough, South Park Middle School was targeted by vandals in the early morning hours yesterday (Thursday), while a few hours later someone slashed a number of tires on people's vehicles in the Elmwood Avenue area.
These crimes apparently were unrelated in that they were committed by different people, though one newspaper account said ther suspects might be part of a vandalism ring. But unrelated or not, Oshkosh Police deserve praise for their investigation, which has resulted in several arrests in the various cases. Some are juveniles, at least one is an adult.
Criminal charges have already been filed in some of the cases, with others still pending. Eventually each suspect will have his day in court. Feel free to share your thoughts with others on what you think the appropriate punishment for these perpetrators should be if they are found guilty.
[following are comments as they were posted to this story on an earlier version of Eye on Oshkosh]
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 19 2006 @ 01:11 PM MDT
What has been going on is terrible and shows we might need more for kids to do in Oshkosh. I think community service and restitutions should for sure be a part of their punishment. Maybe part of restitution would be writing letters of public apology to the school district and city. Other apologies should go to the people who had tires slashed. One thing I don't think should happen is the court go easy on them because they're young. The court could also sentence them to some time in jail so they could see how things are and as a part of that show them how the adult section of jail is compared to the juvenile facility. Scare the bejeezus out of them.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 21 2006 @ 10:15 AM MDT
Juvenille jail is a joke,we need to bring back the old "chain gang" for these kids. Chain them together, have them walk around our city and county parks cleaning up all the cigarette butts, litter, bird droppings. Then take them to the morgue. Let them see what happens to an elderly person when their lights outside are vandalized and the elderly person falls down and breaks their neck. To the hospital to see young people that are on respirators, cause these punks thought it was funny to smash a persons solar street number signs so that it was easily read by emergency personell responding to assist on someone that has problems breathing. These are things that have happened to my home, while I was gone. Better yet, how about the 4 punks that thought they had the right to walk into my front porch at 1:30 in the morning, slamming the door and almost giving me a heart attack, and then these punks continued down the street smashing things, and destroying street baracades. I feel if you drink and act stupid, you belong in jail where you cant harm another human with your alcoholic stupidity.Not just a stupid fine. We need to start humiliating these punks so that they stop and think twice about vandalizing public places and hard working tax paying people's property. Chain them together for all to see.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 21 2006 @ 10:45 AM MDT
These kids have enough to offer them. The north side kids have nothing available for them. The north side kids aren't the ones doing the damage. The West side kids are. The west side has pollack pool, skate park, movies, malls, stores to walk around in. The north side only has the boys and girls club and parks.Evidentually what the kids on the west side need, is parenting. What the hell are kids roaming the street after midnight, where are their parents....probably sitting in a bar drinking. Because of the way teens are raised, and my kids included, I chose to homeschool so they weren't exposed to all these trouble makers that have NO RESPECT for themselves much less than others in their community. Teaching a child RESPECT is the JOB OF THE PARENTS....NOT the community. My kids are in the house/yard by 10 on nonschool days, and 9 on schooldays. This is where the kids belong, not running the street. I know where my kids are at all times during the day. Hell, 99% of the time, the kids and their friends are at our house, cause my husband and I seem to care about them more. We sit together to eat at dinner. What is sad, three of their friends eat here everyday, cause we talk to them, we listen, we are the ones that are directing your kids not to have sex, not to drink, not to do drugs. These kids are NOT our children, they are yours. They want you, but you dont want them. All they are is a tax write off for you. I can't count how many kids we have turned their lives around cause they were heading down the wrong road. I don't have enough digits to keep count anymore. By the time my son started high school. I had lost count and that was 6 years ago. Today, I have over 100 kids that classify my husband and I as dad and mom. We are the ones that they still come to when they have a problem, and don't know how to handle it and we guide them. We are the ones that 5 girls came to cause they were pregnant and didn't know what to do, and were afraid to tell their parents for fear of abuse. We are the ones, that came and sat you down, while you had your beer or alcoholic drink in your hand, we told you your daughter was pregnant and needed to see a doctor. SO WAKE UP PARENTS.... START DOING YOUR JOB, AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN KIDS, GET TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY LIKE, LISTEN TO THEIR PROBLEMS...95% OF THE TIME IT IS EASY TO SOLVE, PUT THE ALCOHOL AWAY, AND DO STUFF WITH YOUR OWN KIDS. THEY JUST WANT TO BE DIRECTED IN A RESPECTED WAY, WITH NO CONDITIONS ON YOUR LOVE FOR THEM. LET THEM HEAR THAT YOU LOVE THEM......THEY WILL WANT TO BE HOME WITH YOU MORE IF YOU DO.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 21 2006 @ 11:24 AM MDT
Hmmmm, Lets see, Menominee Park (zoo, beach, tennis courts, amusment park, boating, fishing, baseball/softball diamonds), There is a YMCA downtown, Library, Public museum, art center, expo center, etc.I guess that someone needs to crawl out from the rock and look. There are many FREE or inexpensive options for kids on the NORTH side. They just don't want to do it.PS Pollack park isn't all that close to the West side either. It is a pretty central location all things considered.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 22 2006 @ 06:16 PM MDT
pollack pool is not centrally located, it is across from west high. the funny thing is, the kids that did the vandalism all live on the west side of the river.....NOT the north side. As to the vandalism done to our home, was done by ALL college kids, there weren't any minors involved. The 4 males that felt is was okay to walk into my home, were college kids.
The city's water park was one of the first to be vandalized. That was followed by vandalism at both Webster Stanley Middle School and Oshkosh North High School. If that weren't enough, South Park Middle School was targeted by vandals in the early morning hours yesterday (Thursday), while a few hours later someone slashed a number of tires on people's vehicles in the Elmwood Avenue area.
These crimes apparently were unrelated in that they were committed by different people, though one newspaper account said ther suspects might be part of a vandalism ring. But unrelated or not, Oshkosh Police deserve praise for their investigation, which has resulted in several arrests in the various cases. Some are juveniles, at least one is an adult.
Criminal charges have already been filed in some of the cases, with others still pending. Eventually each suspect will have his day in court. Feel free to share your thoughts with others on what you think the appropriate punishment for these perpetrators should be if they are found guilty.
[following are comments as they were posted to this story on an earlier version of Eye on Oshkosh]
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 19 2006 @ 01:11 PM MDT
What has been going on is terrible and shows we might need more for kids to do in Oshkosh. I think community service and restitutions should for sure be a part of their punishment. Maybe part of restitution would be writing letters of public apology to the school district and city. Other apologies should go to the people who had tires slashed. One thing I don't think should happen is the court go easy on them because they're young. The court could also sentence them to some time in jail so they could see how things are and as a part of that show them how the adult section of jail is compared to the juvenile facility. Scare the bejeezus out of them.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 21 2006 @ 10:15 AM MDT
Juvenille jail is a joke,we need to bring back the old "chain gang" for these kids. Chain them together, have them walk around our city and county parks cleaning up all the cigarette butts, litter, bird droppings. Then take them to the morgue. Let them see what happens to an elderly person when their lights outside are vandalized and the elderly person falls down and breaks their neck. To the hospital to see young people that are on respirators, cause these punks thought it was funny to smash a persons solar street number signs so that it was easily read by emergency personell responding to assist on someone that has problems breathing. These are things that have happened to my home, while I was gone. Better yet, how about the 4 punks that thought they had the right to walk into my front porch at 1:30 in the morning, slamming the door and almost giving me a heart attack, and then these punks continued down the street smashing things, and destroying street baracades. I feel if you drink and act stupid, you belong in jail where you cant harm another human with your alcoholic stupidity.Not just a stupid fine. We need to start humiliating these punks so that they stop and think twice about vandalizing public places and hard working tax paying people's property. Chain them together for all to see.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 21 2006 @ 10:45 AM MDT
These kids have enough to offer them. The north side kids have nothing available for them. The north side kids aren't the ones doing the damage. The West side kids are. The west side has pollack pool, skate park, movies, malls, stores to walk around in. The north side only has the boys and girls club and parks.Evidentually what the kids on the west side need, is parenting. What the hell are kids roaming the street after midnight, where are their parents....probably sitting in a bar drinking. Because of the way teens are raised, and my kids included, I chose to homeschool so they weren't exposed to all these trouble makers that have NO RESPECT for themselves much less than others in their community. Teaching a child RESPECT is the JOB OF THE PARENTS....NOT the community. My kids are in the house/yard by 10 on nonschool days, and 9 on schooldays. This is where the kids belong, not running the street. I know where my kids are at all times during the day. Hell, 99% of the time, the kids and their friends are at our house, cause my husband and I seem to care about them more. We sit together to eat at dinner. What is sad, three of their friends eat here everyday, cause we talk to them, we listen, we are the ones that are directing your kids not to have sex, not to drink, not to do drugs. These kids are NOT our children, they are yours. They want you, but you dont want them. All they are is a tax write off for you. I can't count how many kids we have turned their lives around cause they were heading down the wrong road. I don't have enough digits to keep count anymore. By the time my son started high school. I had lost count and that was 6 years ago. Today, I have over 100 kids that classify my husband and I as dad and mom. We are the ones that they still come to when they have a problem, and don't know how to handle it and we guide them. We are the ones that 5 girls came to cause they were pregnant and didn't know what to do, and were afraid to tell their parents for fear of abuse. We are the ones, that came and sat you down, while you had your beer or alcoholic drink in your hand, we told you your daughter was pregnant and needed to see a doctor. SO WAKE UP PARENTS.... START DOING YOUR JOB, AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN KIDS, GET TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY LIKE, LISTEN TO THEIR PROBLEMS...95% OF THE TIME IT IS EASY TO SOLVE, PUT THE ALCOHOL AWAY, AND DO STUFF WITH YOUR OWN KIDS. THEY JUST WANT TO BE DIRECTED IN A RESPECTED WAY, WITH NO CONDITIONS ON YOUR LOVE FOR THEM. LET THEM HEAR THAT YOU LOVE THEM......THEY WILL WANT TO BE HOME WITH YOU MORE IF YOU DO.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 21 2006 @ 11:24 AM MDT
Hmmmm, Lets see, Menominee Park (zoo, beach, tennis courts, amusment park, boating, fishing, baseball/softball diamonds), There is a YMCA downtown, Library, Public museum, art center, expo center, etc.I guess that someone needs to crawl out from the rock and look. There are many FREE or inexpensive options for kids on the NORTH side. They just don't want to do it.PS Pollack park isn't all that close to the West side either. It is a pretty central location all things considered.
Acts of vandalism costing thousands of dollars
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 22 2006 @ 06:16 PM MDT
pollack pool is not centrally located, it is across from west high. the funny thing is, the kids that did the vandalism all live on the west side of the river.....NOT the north side. As to the vandalism done to our home, was done by ALL college kids, there weren't any minors involved. The 4 males that felt is was okay to walk into my home, were college kids.
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