(This is the damage. The missing windshield is covered with plastic because, of course, it had to rain.)
The car is fixed.
All told, it cost $747 to repair the damage done by whoever decided to smash my back windshield late Saturday or Sunday. Happy holidays to you, too, Mr./Ms. Random Car Smasher(s)!
I can't help but wonder who these people are who keep smashing out windows in parked cars in the city. In my case they didn't steal anything. I can't imagine this was an attempt to steal stuff because you can't reach in to unlock my car door from the back windshield. Unless they have Mr. Gadget go-go arms, which is doubtful.
Not that there was anything worth stealing in there anyway. Just some old newspapers and empty styrofoam coffee cups.
It's worth mentioning that this isn't the first incident like this in my household.
My fiance's car was broken into a couple months ago. In that case they broke the driver's side window and then proceeded to pry open the trunk with a crowbar. (Why they couldn't just pop the trunk open is beyond me.) He moved here from North Side of Pittsburgh (Mexican War Streets), and we never had to worry so much about our cars there.
According to the York City online police log, there have been at least five broken windshield incidents this month. Why are these vandals so angry? Can't they appreciate how much these things cost to fix?
Maybe it was an eco-terrorist protesting your use of a polluting vehicle and polluting styrofoam while drinking non-fair trade coffee, and destroying trees from not reading the news on the internets.
Maybe. I hadn't thought of that.
I wish they had known that I do drink fair trade coffee and my car gets about 35 miles to the gallon because it's compact and a standard.
Guilty as charged on reading the newspaper, but I do recycle it -- either using it in other ways or putting it in the appropriate bin.
As for the styrofoam -- well, I guess those eco-terrorists got me on that one.