Woke up this morning to the local news station reporting that cars have been vandalized at a social service agency. Get to work and find that 11 of our cars have been vandalized. All the drivers side windows have been broken out. We have 5-6 agency vans that we use for work and the rest were cars donated to us that we give to needy families. In fact all of the cars have been donated to us. Most of the vans we use for work are old, have over 100,000 miles on them. None of them have anything in them.
The police were called by a passing motorist about 1am last night and when the police arrived, the perp was sitting in one of the vans. He is now getting his own social services via the county jail. Don't know what he was looking for, but he got nothing except time in jail. Catholic Social Services will take a huge financial hit on this as our insurance is liability only for most of the vehicles. My boss is spending his day vacuuming glass out of the cars.

The local tv news station is here now doing a story.

Not sure how I feel about this now. I'm angry, sad, and disappointed. But also sorry for this guy. Don't know if he needed drugs or what the reason for the damage, but whatever it is, he's got serious problems.
It's hard to want to keep helping people when this kind of thing happens. Every day we come to work and deal with people who are needy. Some of them thru no fault of their own, but so many due to a series of poor choices. Some of these folks get angry if we cannot help them. Some feel very entitled to any and all assistance. This guy probably has nothing to do with any of our clients. It just life.