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Post by ruffles on Sept 18, 2010 21:14:13 GMT -5
The house was dark and I was upstairs in my office talking on the phone with a chorus friend when I heard an exceptionally loud noise. It sounded like a very forceful knocking at my front door. I didn't know what to do at first but there were no other noises after that. Janet was still on the phone with me. After a few minutes, I started checking the house in the dark and also the yard from my upstairs deck. There was no activity happening around at all. Then I started turning on all the lights. My front door is flanked by a pair of side panels with layered glass in them. The outside glass in one of them is broken. There is a fist sized hole in it with a very sharded border. Most of the glass fell between the two layers of glass. There's no rock or anything on the stoop or ground that could have caused it. My friend suggested calling the police in case there were kids on a vandalizing spree in the neighborhood. The police officer couldn't figure out what caused it either. The best thing we thought of was the possibility of a flying critter that crashed into the window. (What a headache!) This happened around 8:00 PM which is dark here now. He checked the house and did a report just in case I need it for the insurance company. The house is secure because the inside glass panel is intact. This whole event was really weird!!!!!!
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Post by meggie on Sept 19, 2010 0:07:09 GMT -5
You're having quite a night, Ruffie! Glad you're okay.
Are you sure you aren't into the merlot tonight?
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Post by karenk on Sept 19, 2010 6:22:49 GMT -5
Well that's kind of scary! What kind of flying critter? Bats have echolocation and almost never crash into anything, let alone with the force to shatter glass. We had flying squirrels in our attic, but they glide rather than "fly" and it's really hard for me to imagine it breaking glass. That IS weird!
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Post by ruffles on Sept 19, 2010 6:47:09 GMT -5
Bats are extremely adept flyers. They can fly through a rotating fan without issue. Birds will fly into windows. This window is less than a foot wide set in a white house but it was completely dark. Are poke berries in season right now? Birds can become drunk on those. ......... I have no idea what it was!
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Post by formerlurkerlibby on Sept 19, 2010 11:42:14 GMT -5
We have birds fly into the house windows all the time. Someone once told me that they can see through the house to the other side and do not realize that there is glass in the way. However, birds don't fly in the dark except maybe in an emergency. Also, the birds never break the glass well they haven'y so far anyway!
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Post by ruffles on Sept 19, 2010 12:31:43 GMT -5
The poke berries could be in season now....not sure exactly but birds can become drunk on those.
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Post by ruffles on Sept 19, 2010 23:33:57 GMT -5
In talking with a neighbor today I learned that recently kids have rung the doorbells and run off of at least two neighbors near by. They've done this very late in the evening when it is dark. I don't have a working doorbell. It makes sense that they came here and knocked on the glass too hard instead.
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Post by meggie on Sept 20, 2010 1:45:10 GMT -5
That sounds plausible under the circumstances. One of your neighbour kids may have a cut hand. Not that you'd want to see anyone hurt for a simple prank, but if one of them did get hurt, it's probably the end of it.
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Post by karenk on Sept 20, 2010 5:59:54 GMT -5
That sounds like the most likely scenario. I doubt they meant any harm, sounds like one of those early adolescent pranks that sounds like a fun idea at the time.
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Post by Amanda on Sept 21, 2010 9:57:44 GMT -5
Kids these days!!!
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Post by karenk on Sept 21, 2010 15:37:30 GMT -5
Oh come on! Kids were doing the doorbell prank when I was little! :-)
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Post by ruffles on Sept 21, 2010 16:44:55 GMT -5
What kinds of pranks did you do?
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Post by karenk on Sept 21, 2010 16:55:04 GMT -5
None. You know I'm a good girl! ;-)
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Post by karenk on Sept 21, 2010 16:58:21 GMT -5
Although... I did play a pretty good one on an attorney I worked with. There had been a story on the news about a seal named Hoover who "talked" at the Aquarium. So my co-worker and I left John one of those pink "While You Were Out" slips that Attorney Hoover Seale had called and we put the number for the Aquarium. John called the Aquarium and asked to speak to Hoover Seale. We were DYING laughing!!! Of course the Aquarium though HE was the one pulling a prank and hung up on him. OMG it was SO funny!!!
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Post by karenga on Sept 22, 2010 7:22:24 GMT -5
Karenk, that one is pretty funny. I was thinking of posting that "at least Ruffles mail box didn't blow up", thinking about the old cherry bombs in mail boxes routine. But after I had my post half written, I decided that in todays "post 9-11" environment it might not be such a funny joke after all.
Glad to know you got it sorta figured out Ruffles, and at least your mail box is intact.
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