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TWO OMAHA
NEIGHBOR
HOODS --
CLEANING UP
AFTER
VANDALS... MADE
A MESS OF THEIR
STREETS!
WOWT 6 NEWS'S
"DON GRANESE"
-- CAUGHT UP
WITH A FEW
NEIGHBORS,
TODAY -- WHO
SAY : THIS LITTLE
"LATE-NIGHT
GAME" -- WENT
WAY TOO FAR.
"THE PEOPLE WHO
LIVE IN THIS OMAHA
NEIGHBORHOOD SAY
IT'S NORMALLY VERY
QUIET BUT THIS
MORNING AS THEY
OPENED THEIR
FRONT DOORS THEY
WOKE UP TO A
DESTRUCTIVE
MESS."
"STOP"
IT'S A SIMPLE
REQUEST...
"FIND A MORE
PRODUCTIVE HOBBY.
MAYBE JUST STAY
INSIDE."
ERIC
STEPHENSON
CALLED POLICE
AFTER HE
NOTICED SOME
TIME AFTER 11
FRIDAY NIGHT HIS
MAILBOX AND
THE ONE ACROSS
THE STREET HAD
BOTH BEEN
BEATEN WITH A
BAT.
"THEY UH DETACHED
IT FROM THE POST."
NAT POP OF ERIC
ADJUSTIN MAILBOX
WHEN OMAHA
POLICE
RESPONDED
THEY FOUND 10
VANDALIZED
VICTIMS.
SOME HAD CAR
WINDOWS AND
WINDSHIELDS
SHATTERED AND
SPLINTERED
FROM SOME KIND
OF PELLET GUN
OR SLINGSHOTS.
"TONIGHT I'M GOING
TO PULL MY CAR IN
AND MAKE SURE
THAT THE HOUSE IS
LOCKED DOWN
PRETTY TIGHT
BECAUSE YOU JUST
NEVER KNOW IF THIS
COULD HAPPENED
AGAIN."
NAT POP OF
HELICOPTER
A POLICE
HELICOPTER
SEARCHED THE
NEARBY
NEIGHBOR
HOODS FOR A
SILVER JEEP
CHEROKEE...THE
SUSPECT'S CAR.
MORE
DESTRUCTION
WAS SOON
REPORTED NEAR
79TH &
NINA...CAR
WINDOWS AND
GLASS
SHATTERED
AGAIN.
"I DON'T THINK THEY
REALLY
UNDERSTAND THE
DAMAGE THEY DO
WHEN THEY GO
AROUND ACTING
LIKE IDIOTS."
SOME ESTIMATE
IT'LL TAKE
HUNDREDS OF
DOLLARS TO FIX
THE DAMAGE.
FOR
NOW...THESE
RESIDENTS ARE
STUCK
EXPLAINING TO
THE MAIL
CARRIERS...
NATS OF OPENING
MAILBOX AND IT
FALLING OFF
BRING THE MAIL
TO THE FRONT
DOOR.
"MUST BE PRETTY
BORED IF YOU'RE
GOING AROUND
KNOCKING DOWN
MAILBOXES."
POLICE HAVE YET
TO LOCATE THEIR
SUSPECT.
ANYONE WITH
INFORMATION
ABOUT THE
VANDALISM IS
ASKED TO CALL
OMAHA POLICE --