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Sorry, Hoss. Your situation is clearly not a case of kids playing around. I didn't mean to detract from your original post. I looked back and thought my posts were a little too goofy and took away from your point. I hope you at least have a decent outcome, whether it's through insurance, or by some freak chance, the police find your stuff.

Oh, yeah. I know I was lucky! That was actually enough to dissuade me from pranks for awhile. Of course, my "hoodlum" days were little more than lighting dog poo, a little pumpkin bashing on Halloween, the occasional stealing of rival school's football players yard signs (replaced unharmed in another part of town and not destroyed), and maybe once or twice changing the letters on a local businesses sign to spell dirty words at night. I'm amazed these days at what is considered "youthful pranking". My days weren't that long ago, and things have changed to the point where I'm afraid for my kids sometimes!

I hate to admit it, but, no. I didn't stop running for a mile! My friends however who were watching told me that the combination of me running like a "big scared girl" as they put it, and the flaming bag of poo was the absolute funniest thing they've ever seen. To this day, I still hear about it once or twice a year over 10 years later! That, and the time I burned my eyebrows off with a potato gun, but that's a story for another day........ In my weak defense, we had just watched Adam Sandler in Billy Madison do the bag of dog poo trick, and we thought it would be hilarious to do to the neighborhood cranky guy. Still not sure how I got volunteered to be the "lighter of the poo".

As a teenager, I was shot with the classic rock salt in the backside while going over a fence. I happened to be lighting a bag of dog poo and not stealing, but how was the owner of the house supposed to know that? I think alot more people would shoot than not shoot. I may or may not shoot. I work with my hands, but don't have my own tools like Hoss. My grandfather, however was a welder, and had someone tried to steal his welding truck, I assure you, there would have been a chalk outline on the driveway in the shape of the criminal. I'd be alot more inclined to shoot in Hoss' position since that's his livelyhood. By the way, the lighting dog poo years have passed, I have much more creative and less mischevious outlets now.