Rock Gate, June 13th 2009

Oh....boys.
We had our friends, the Dallas family, over for dinner tonight. They have 2 boys our boys same age, and a girl Mallory's age. They play really well together. The kids were just outside our dining room window playing. We adults were sitting at the table, talking. We had the window open and were keeping an eye on them. We didn't notice, however, that Conner & Ryan were in front of the twin home that my in-laws are building next door, and were throwing rocks in the street. Well, some guy who lives up the street turned onto 8175 South, headed east, and saw them. He stopped, put his window down, and told them they shouldn't throw rocks. I guess that wasn't enough for him. He pulled over, walked to the back of the twin home to where he could see us and told us that..."Your boys are throwing rocks. They could have hit a car. They're lucky they didn't hit my Range Rover, it's a $75,000 car." (Yeah, maybe 5 years ago...get over yourself buddy!) Jared apologized and we told Ryan & Conner to come in the house, they were in TROUBLE. Jared went with the older kids to get the rocks out of the street. They guy had already left. BUT, he came back. He wanted to talk to Jared & Tyler. He pointed out a dent on the hood of the car (passenger side) that he claimed came from a rock they threw. I'm telling you, there is no way either of those boys can throw a rock that far. Plus it was too large a dent, and paint had already chipped around it, it looked pretty weathered. It got ugly after that....the guy called Sandy police, filed a report, and is probably going to sue us. Poor Conner, when he saw the police, thought they were coming to take him away and just started crying. That right there was probably punishment enough. The officer was very nice, he talked to both Ryan & Conner, got everyone's story. Conner relaxed after that and thought the officers belt was pretty cool. Not because of the gun though. He kept saying, "Mom, the police has a flashlight!" The officer said there wasn't anything he could do about the situation. He actually called us later tonight to get some additional information because this "Range Rover" guy had called the police department to complain about how the officer had handled it. Give me a break! I'm sure there will be more to come, as the officer kept telling us, "That guy is on a witch hunt."