By KAREN BRADY
Editor
Five years ago, Mike Fay and his wife moved from Mustang to Chickasaw Springs Estates in Tuttle.
Describing his neighbors as, “hands down the best neighbors anyone could ask for,” Fay said loved the area because it gave him the “country feel” he was looking for and because “neighborhood children have a great safe place to play and everyone has the sense of security.”
That sense of security was shaken last week after vandals destroyed several sections of three-rail vinyl fencing that runs west of the neighborhood along Cemetery Road.
“We suffered somewhere in the area of $3,000 to $5,000 worth of damage. I am amazed and can’t fathom the amount of vandalism created by whomever had the time, drive and desire to violate our sense of security and destroy personal property,” Fay said. “This was totally uncalled for and unacceptable. It’s a shame that an area as wonderful as Tuttle would have a person or persons who have absolutely no regard or respect for one’s property. It’s unbelievable in my opinion.”
Tuttle’s Assistant Police Chief Bill Boyd said he thinks the vandalism was done by kids.
“We don’t know anything about who did it, and there were no tracks like someone hit it (the fence) with a car,” Boyd said. “ It looks like they just busted it up; it doesn’t look like an accident. I think it was probably kids.”
Boyd said a similar vandalism occurrence several months ago turned out to be kids.
“I guess they’re bored,” Boyd said.
While there is no evidence of tire tracks made by a vehicle driving into the fence, there are, however several tire tracks running parallel with the fence.
“The Tuttle Police Department is extremely responsive and the officers take a concern for the public, which we greatly admire and appreciate,” Fay said. “I’m just amazed they have to waste valuable time investigating the actions of whomever did this damage. I’m confident that if the persons, or the parents of the persons who did this, had this done in their own neighborhood, they would feel exactly as we do - very disappointed and discouraged. One thing I learned as a juvenile, as many of us have, is to respect the property of others.”
Tuttle Police Chief Don Cluck said police have found some car parts in the area, indicating someone may have driven through the fence and an area resident reported seeing “bright lights,” but police still have no information about the perpetrator(s) of the crime.
Local News
December 15, 2009
Vandalism
Several hundred feet of fence destroyed in Chickasaw Springs
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