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Item: Inked and outraged: Expletives painted on couple’s home near schools/Brian Walker, CdA Press
More Info: When Post Falls’ Dee and Lee Ternes opened their living room curtains, graffiti with obscenities on their Fir Street home greeted the senior couple. “He’s 74 and I’m 68, so it’s pretty disheartening,” Dee said. “(Lee) can’t scrape, paint and do all that stuff. I’m on anxiety medicine to keep me from having a heart attack, then we find this.” Expletives were spray painted on the couple’s living room and garage windows and their garage doors. They were waiting for an insurance adjuster to give them an estimate of the damage.
Question: Has a vandal ever harmed or destroyed your property?
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Lynne on May 19 at 9:55 a.m.
Egged our house, toilet papered the trees. Nothing like that. Those poor people. I hope they find the slimeball(s) and make them re-paint the house themselves. By hand. And if they don’t do it right the first time, they can just keep re-painting until the homeowners are satisfied.
Kage_Mann on May 19 at 10:05 a.m.
It’s prolly kids, doing stupid kid things.They need to be caught and taught a lesson.
BethB on May 19 at 10:54 a.m.
I hope they can release the worry about this and just let insurance take care of it. Their health should not be affected because people (prolly kids, as Kage says) do dumb things. Here’s sending them the best.