Thank the good lord that 2009 is OVER. part 2.

So we got Austin into a smaller, probably not quite as good, farther away, but easy and he likes it, high school. On our journey into new high school land, we had to stop at our house to get the old high school's books and bring them back there, so they could release him to a new school. Upon arriving at the ol' homestead, our garage door would not open. We assumed the power went out. We stupidly forgot that we installed a door chain on our front door, so when we unlocked the door and opened it, it would not go all the way and made a huge BANG. Andy ran around through the back gate and saw that the power box was opened and all power was manually shut off. He went to the office door (Newly installed x 5 mos or so) and it was kicked in. Metal bent, boards in shards, and muddy footprints to boot. Computers still there, broken glass and coins scattered, bras abundantly spread throughout the bedroom, drawers overturned, riffle carefully laid out on our bed, camera's gone, Wii gone, games gone, new camcorder with all the past year's birthday's and holidays recorded on it, GONE!
I could kill someone.
Police called. Is anyone still in the house or in danger? The wrong answer here is NO. No will get you put on the bottom of police priority lists. After their calls about pets in trees, after their donut breaks, and after their important calls to friends and families. We sat outside, unable to touch or make a mark in our newly destroyed home for over FOUR hours.
I could kill someone.
Would they be able to take fingerprints? Would they be able to get information from the perfectly formed footprint on our back door? Would they bring out the K9 sniffing dogs? Would they takes notes of where items were left and were we could clearly tell they peeled out of the alley and down the street? No, but they could lecture us about trimming our Oleander's to make our yard "less obscure" and therefore more open to neighbor's being able to view any illegal activity. yeah right. Thanks mr. policeman. I will keep that in mind.
If only I had killed someone, more may have been done.