Just shy of 9pm, we heard loud smashing glass outside. My husband grabbed his maglite and ran out the door but it was already over with, it happened that quickly. Other neighbors had also run out to see what the commotion was.

Apparently a pumpkin had been thrown through the window of the house across the street from us, and another pumpkin was thrown towards our house and smashed just shy of our neighbor's jeep. The owner of the house with the smashed in window - a woman and her young son - were standing outside, bewildered. She said nobody got hurt, nobody was in the room at the time. They were just shaken up pretty badly. There was a young couple who were walking past our place at the moment the incident happened - they are the ones, along with a male neighbor a couple doors down from us, who saw the kids. The male neighbor jumped in his truck and tried to go after the kids, who scattered in all directions on foot.

The perpetrators, according to the young couple out for a walk, were two white kids, one black kid, probably around age 16. One was wearing a dark hoodie over a white hoodie. That's all we have to go on.

There were two more pumpkins in the street, near the curb of the house that had its window smashed in. It's not known what their motive was or how much more they thought to get away with. The young boy who lives at the violated house did not see the perpetrators either, and his mom doesn't think her son was targeted, although it was the boy's bedroom window that was shattered, and he was just about to go into his room to go to bed. Poor kid.

The police were called out and took statements from the walking couple, from my husband, and when the man in the truck returned, they talked to him, too.

People are so mean. I hope those kids get caught quickly.