Random Acts of Vandalism..

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Saturday night my boyfriend and I were at his condo, in bed talking at about 1:30 in the morning when I heard a few big bangs outside. He's on the 4th floor of his complex, so when I looked out the window I couldn't see anything but I kept hearing noise. It was like 2 big bangs and then a smash, sounded like glass shattering. It happened several times, so I grabbed my housecoat and went outside on the deck to see if I could see anything. He followed me outside, and his little brother came outside to see what was going on, too. Just as I walked outside, I heard the noise again, and it sounded really close. I knew at that point it was glass shattering, and my boyfriend and I exchanged a look since we knew it was most likely the windows of the condos on the first floor. It's a brand new complex, and the units on the first and most of the second floor aren't even done yet. We looked but couldn't isolate the sound and it was too dark to see anything really. Then the area was absolutely inundated with police cars and police on foot. One of the officers shone the light on us and asked us if we saw anything, but we hadn't. Just heard the loud crashing sounds. We crawled back into bed, heard radios crackling outside and what sounded like a police dog team searching the grounds. The next morning we woke up, got dressed and walked around the building. There were 8 windows smashed out in the first floor, 4 on the parking lot side (opposite side from his unit), 3 on the street side on our side, and one way down on the North side of the building close to where his was. There's a big pile of board near where most of the window were broken, so it's no mystery what they used, but why in the first place? We're both confused as to why someone would do this? At first we thought drunk kids (there's a bar right behind his building), but wouldn't they just smash out one window and then take off out of fear? It wasn't someone with a vendetta against someone else, because first, no one lives in those units yet (although they are sold) and secondly, it affected 5 different units. And the windows were very randomly hit. They skipped 4 or 5 windows in between, even though they were right beside a window that was smashed. It was so completely random, but it makes me mad that people would disrespect someone else's property for whatever reason. Sometimes I really dislike people.