Headline: Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Okay, that wasn't really the headline, but it should have been. This is from the Nanaimo Daily Bulletin...the first house is half a block south of us, I can see it from my front porch. We know the owners...and they have had a tough time in the neighbourhood already, but they are good fighters! The second house is one block up and owned by a woman in her 80's....and they didn't just go through her fence. They hit her holly tree and it fell against her house.

Two Nanaimo men wreaked four hours of havoc Friday morning in Nanaimo’s south end.Ian Clayton O’Brien, 20, and Kelly Scott Casey, 26, appeared in court Monday facing an array of charges stemming from the morning of chaos.At 7:08 a.m., police responded to a call from a witness saying a blue 1993 Honda Prelude had clipped his truck near Victoria Avenue and Milton Street. Moments later, the Prelude, which belonged to O’Brien but had invalid licence plates, clipped a telephone pole and crashed into the home of James Younger.“I remember it was exactly 7:13 (a.m.),” said Younger, who had been asleep in the basement. “I had been working until 4 a.m. I was afraid I’d find somebody dead in the car.”Younger went upstairs to make sure his wife and children were OK. “Thankfully, nobody was hurt.”The occupants fled the scene and allegedly stole a white minivan, which then crashed into a fence in the 500 block of Hecate Street around 7:50 a.m.“Two males were seen fleeing that scene,” said Const. Jen Allan of the Nanaimo RCMP. “Though one of them left his boots behind at the crash site.”At 10:08 a.m. were reported trying to steal cars in the parking lot at First and Bastion streets. They then made their way to Port Place shopping centre where they entered a shoe store and made off with a pair of shoes.Police apprehended them a short time later on Albert Street after receiving similar identification notes from witnesses at each scene .

Before they go to jail, they should have to come provide the labour to fix that lady's fence, and James' house, themselves. They'll certainly never pay to have them fixed. And maybe they should do it barefoot. Sheesh.