# Hey, you forgot your rock! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467 "2009-07-27T19:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/21 "2009-07-28T17:25:19Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I hope you catch them on camera doing something illegal so you can get the law on them. I’ve never been the target of vandalism, which is good because I’m far too immature to realize that vigilante justice is wrong.☹ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/22 "2009-07-28T20:52:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’ve never been the target of vandalism, which is good because I’m far too immature to realize that vigilante justice is wrong.☹ Yeah, well if it were me in **Zsofia’s** position, I’d like nothing better than to lie in wait for these little shits to do something and pop up with a shotgun yelling “Hi, motherfuckers!” and wantonly shooting at them, but you know… …I play too many videogames! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/23 "2009-07-28T21:14:21Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > But I think the smart money is on … kids. (Suspiciously absent on the street yesterday, by the way.) Hmm… I wonder if there’s any possible angle here. My first thought was “hey kids, here’s $100 if you tell me who busted my window,” but odds are you’ll just get lied to so they get the hundo. Vandalism sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/24 "2009-07-28T21:48:07Z")
You gotta crib from the FBI and such - “Cash reward for information LEADING TO AN ARREST”. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/25 "2009-07-29T01:14:46Z")
I think you should just go up to random kids on the street, give 'em the stink eye, and growl, “I know what you did!” You might get a confession. If you target the wrong kids, oh well- they’ve done _some_thing. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/26 "2009-07-29T01:57:32Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > We are going to go all _The Wire_ on this sumbitch. We have already started taking pictures of the teenagers who go up and down the road on the way to the park - we’re going to put up a board just like they do on _The Wire_ and find out who they are and where they belong and who is _doing this to us_. You gotta label at least one of them “Snot Boogie” or “Poot,”\* just for posterity’s sake. Sorry this happened to you. Idiots used to do shit to my car all the time (an old beat-up Porsche); crack the mirrors, break the antennae – once I found a _sandwich_ in the middle of the windshield. Hell, now that I think about it again, I hope you get to _give_ them their rock back indeed. - Characters from _The Wire_ (well, not technically, since Snot Boogie was dead and the subject of a very funny conversation about how he got that name in the very first episode. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/27 "2009-08-22T18:43:13Z")
If people are throwing rocks at your cats, it’s a good time to consider moving to a place with fewer neighbors. I suggest Davenport Iowa. Rent a house with at least an acre of scrub around it. There are about 4 thousand of them available. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/28 "2009-08-22T19:33:20Z")
Davenport Iowa, home to 4,000 acres of scrub. No offense meant, I just like the thought of that. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/29 "2009-08-28T20:58:45Z")
Do any of your neighbors have a glass house? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467/30 "2009-08-31T19:41:34Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > If there’s any truth to the idiom, the perpetrator can’t be far. About a stone’s throw away, in fact. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-forgot-your-rock/504467.md?page=1)