Payback for attacks on Christian churches in Israel? The group "Price Tag" has been very active there. I believe the phrase "Jesus is a monkey" is one of their favorite pieces of graffiti to spray paint on church walls. None of this is right. Both sides are idiots.

Forget jail. They should reset all the gravestones they toppled. And when they came back again the next day have a few of them overset again. It'll give them a taste of just how hard work it was to set them to begin with, only to have someone wreck that work.

If some of the stones were destroyed, they should be set to work as a volunteer in the shops that make and carve those memorials. Seeing the process of cutting, carving, sanding and creating one of the headstones might give them a sense of how hard this is and give them a greater appreciation for the craft--who knows, maybe a couple of these kids might decide they likes working with stone. At any rate, it will take them off the streets and keep them busy--and they'll (hopefully) think twice about ever doing it again.

Mr Thanatos:

I doubt this had anything to do with activity in the larger socio-political arena. I tend to think this was just a couple of kids who didn't think about what they were doing before they did it. very few teens I know have any sort of awareness of what goes on in the US, much less the world. I heard someone talking to a couple kids about voting while on the bus last week and one kid (sixteen-seventeen, my guess) said 'Who's Mitt Romney?'.

Yesterday some of the roads in our municipality were closed due to Veterans Day parade and a kid said, "but Veteran's day was Saturday!" I turned and told the kid that he should look at the calendar or the news once in a while instead of his Facebook page.

What ever punishment is given should be shared by the parents. What happened to teaching kids to respect people's property or considering the feelings of others? The parents should be out there working along side of their children learning that lesson as well.

Amanda, I agree they should be made to fix the gravestones (at least those that can be) and pay for new ones for those that were damaged too badly, which they can work off the money for by tending the cemetery, but jail time is also a must. They committed a crime, and a hate crime at that. Even if it is a month in jail, they need to be taught that such activity isn't acceptable in a civil society, as do any teens who even remotely think it is OK. A message to both these teens, and any who would copy them must be sent.

My recommendation:

upon conviction, they get 1-2 months jail time (no time off for good behavior), followed by 5 years probation during which they have to fix the gravestones and work at the cemetery maintaining it to pay for new headstones/grave markers for any that were damaged beyond repair. Also, make sure the names are released to the public. Some public humiliation for this act is in order. That is justice. I'd also like to see the Judge fine their parents a good deal of money as this starts at home. If the parents are unwilling to raise their children to know this is wrong, then the parents are equally to blame. As such, they also need to pay so justice is served.

@Mike, this is a vile case, and it doesn't matter who is buried in that cemetery. The act was both against the memory of those buried there and against their living relatives. It would be a hate crime no matter who's cemetery it happens to belong to, as it was singled out. They didn't do this to a mixed religion cemetery, or one with no religious affiliation. They chose to do this to a Jewish cemetery, but any similar cemetery would be just as bad.

@ Thanatos. these are teens, they likely know nothing of those attacks that happened months ago. they did this because they were never taught any better by their parents. It is as simple as that. Teens in the US don't watch the news, not that those attacks got much coverage here.

We really don't have the money to jail teens for nonviolent crimes. Jail doesn't rehabilitate anybody; it simply keeps violent people away from the rest of us.

They should right what they did by working it off--fixing the stones, the cemetery, and paying for the damages. If sending kids to jail made them shape up, the whole country would be in better shape since huge numbers of young men are in jail. They get out worse than they went in. Nobody died here. The lesson is in respect, and they aren't going to learn that one in jail.

And really, some of these kids are so stupid that they might not even realize it was a Jewish cemetery. They destroy things just because they are there and they can.

Rick

There is nothing to suggest this event was caused by any particular socio-political ideology. Your hatred of the conservative values is apparent and shows you to be a bitter hateful person.

The acts were done by teens. I doubt if it was a hate crime on any level, although that needs to be ascertained by authorities. It was just a group of dumb kids doing dumb things. Yes, they should be punished and made to pay. Public humiliation* should be part of it, but I doubt that jail time would be effective. Long terms of public service would be better.

*Public humiliation is best if it is short-term and intense. Longer periods may convince the kid that he is beyond redemption.

Normally, I hate lawsuits, however in this case, I believe that the crime victims should sue these offenders and their families for every penny they will ever have for emotional distress. Also, not a hate crime? Sounds like the cops(?) are the real anti Semites here.

Clearly a "hate crime". This should be some lengthy and hard time in a prison for these isiots.

If they are over 16 hit them where they live impound their cars for 1 year and loss of drivers license for one year. If not denial of driver's lisense until 18. No matter what age make them give a public apology in their high school at a all school assembly, stand out on some busy intersection holding a sign saying "only a racist @sshole would desecrate a cemetery", 60 days in youth detention, 90 days working in a Jewish nursing home, complete restitution, and spending the entire summer May, June, July and August using old fashioned push mowers cutting the grass at the cemetery from 6AM until dark 7 days a week.

Second anti-Semitic attack exposed in Auckland

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7846808/Second-anti-Semitic-attack-exposed-in-Auckland

Muslim terrorists ,KKK. nazis or another group? Even if they can´t publish their names give us a hint.Might be relevant,hey? And at the minimum some public humiliation and depending on the ages some closed juvenile detention or prison.And some attempts at re- education Anyway given the world situation,this just can´t be treated as boys or girls just doing some prank!

Vandals smashed dozens of gravestones in the Jewish section of a cemetery in northern France

http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2007/04/again_a_jewish_.html

Jewish cemeteries hit by 117th attack in 15 years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jun/16/religion.thefarright

September 20 - 21, 2003 - Santa Fe - Vandals desecrated 19
tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Santa Fe. Local representatives of the
Argentinean Jewish umbrella organization DAIA said the incident was clearly
anti-Semitic.

November 9, 2003 - Trutnov - Unknown perpetrators overturned 15
tombstones of Jewish girls who perished in a Nazi concentration camp in Trutnov.
The police are investigating the incident as a racially motivated crime.

October 15, 2003 -- Beeskow -- A Jewish cemetery in the city of
Beeskow, east of Berlin, was desecrated by vandals who painted swastikas and
anti-Semitic statements such as "you got what you deserved," "Heil Hitler" and
"crap on the six million lie" on gravestones.

October 11 - 12, 2003 -- Gundesberg -- Vandals desecrated a Jewish
cemetery in the central German city. Police said Nazi slogans and other graffiti
was spray painted on 42 headstones and the cemetery gate.

August 15, 2003 – Kassel – More than 50 graves were vandalized at a
historic Jewish cemetery in the central German city of Kassel. Some gravestones
were overturned, while others had headstones weighing up to 2,000 pounds toppled
on them. Police were investigating.

December 10, 2003 - Oswiecim - Vandals overturned 16 tombstones at a
historic Jewish cemetery in Oswiecim, near the site of the former Nazi death
camp Auschwitz. The vandals threw a large box filled with sand over the cemetery
wall, and topped headstones. One of the tombstones was destroyed.

June 28, 2003 – Pyatigorsk – On the last weekend in June, a Jewish
cemetery in the town of Pyatigorsk, in the North Caucasus, was desecrated.
Vandals smashed 10 tombstones, including those of Russian World War II soldiers.
It is the only Jewish cemetery in the multi-ethnic Stavropol Region.

April 2, 2003 - Makhachkala - Vandals smashed ten graves in the
Jewish section of the city's Old Cemetery. According to the deputy interior
minister of the republic of Dagestan, marble plaques and monuments had been
shattered. There were no suspects.

November 19, 2003 -- Humenne -- Vandals painted swastikas and
anti-Semitic slogans on tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in the city of Humenne
in eastern Slovakia. Police are investigating.

October 20 - 26, 2003 - Nove Mesto nad Vahom - Unidentified vandals
knocked over and damaged 19 tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Nove Mesto nad
Vahom in western Slovakia. Police said the vandals broke into the cemetery on
two seperate occasions.

January 21, 2003 – Banovce nad Bedravou - A 19th-century Jewish
cemetery was desecrated in the western Slovak town of Banovce nad Bedravou,
about 100 kilometers northeast of the capital, Bratislava. Thirty-five
tombstones were toppled and vandals drew a swastika in the snow by the gate.t

November 21, 2003 - Medway - All 21 headstones in the Jewish section
of Chatham municipal cemetery in Medway, Kent, were vandalized. Only the Jewish
section of the graveyard was targeted, authorities said.

August 5, 2003 - Manchester - Vandals smashed and toppled 20
headstones in an attack at a Jewish cemetery in Prestwich, in Greater
Manchester. Police are treating the incident at Rainsough Hebrew Burial Ground
as a racially motivated. The cemetery has been targeted in the past.

July 8, 2003 – Southampton -- Eleven tombstones in the Jewish
section of the Hollybrook cemetery were desecrated with Nazi slogans and
swastikas. Six others were toppled. A spokesman for the Community Security
Trust, which provides security and defense advice for the Jewish community
across Britain, said it was the second attack on Jewish graves in Southampton in
seven months. Police were investigating.

May 15, 2003 – London – Police discovered the desecration of 386
Jewish graves at the Plashet Cemetery in East Ham. The gravestones had been
pushed over. Police are treating the incident as a racially motivated attack. In
addition to three youths, all under 17 and who were subsequently released on
bail, four more youths have been arrested and were being held in custody.

Dumba$$ kids... Leave the dead alone! They should make these kids pay for all the damages and perform lots of community work.

bart, if it was one of them, we would have been told. Since we were not told, maybe they were minorities? They are the only ones protected by the media these days.

I say those kids should sleep with the dead for week. Let's see how tough they are then.

I remember when I was a teen, a friend and I got into a "dirt bomb" fight. One of the clumps of dirt flew out of my hand and hit a lamp post above a group of older women sitting on a bench. One got really mad at me. I went over to apologize and she appreciated it. I then noticed numbers tattooed on her wrist. I asked her about it and she explained to me in a way I could understand about the Holocaust. (If they were able to survive that, they weren't about to put up with rowdy teens.) Afterward, I greeted them and would sometimes sit and listen to their stories. (I was 12 at the time.) It made a big impression, because after all they had been through...they still showed compassion. These teens need to learn compassion and how others have suffered because of their faith. The lesson would be longer lasting than any jail time.

They committed a crime, and a hate crime at that

No evidence they were targeting specifically Jewish grave stones. They were a bunch of immature and misguided teenagers.

Rather than jail. They should have to spend their weekends tending the grounds of the cemetary. During the week they should be made to work and wages garnished to repair all damage done.

Then, if fail at those stipulations then they should go to jail!

Give them a chance to make a teenage mistake and make restitution before we lock them up with rapists and murderers thereby possibly sending them into a life of crime for a lifetime.

Teenagers screw up often!

Bart martin said;

Muslim terrorists ,KKK. nazis or another group? Even if they can´t publish their names give us a hint.

According to other articles posted on this subject, the kids are 14 and 15, and they lived in the neighborhood. One article said they lived only about three blocks from the cemetery. Also, not all of the damage was done at once; see this clip from the Hartford Courant:

The toppled headstones were discovered and reported to police on October 19, but authorities believe the damage had been inflicted beginning October 12 or earlier.

This was damage done over a series of days. Probably toppled a few each time they passed through the cemetery. Different articles also have different totals; the Hartford Courant says several dozen which would be twenty-four to thirty-six; Times of Israel says 40, Connecticut Now says 'dozens', Yeshiva World said 'more than 60', and this article says 100.

I actually tend to believe the Harford Courant since they were the ones who first broke the story in mid-October, and I don't think the kids intended it in any sort religiously-based evil intent. They did it once, didn't get caught, did it again. Since in some of the pictures of toppled headstones they are very heavy-looking, it probably turned into a very childish sort of 'look what I can do' game.

Dawg Pound, they were in a Jewish cemetery. Your first point is MOOT.

Dawg Pound, they were in a Jewish cemetery. Your first point is MOOT.

Yeah, a Jewish cemetery in their neighborhood! 14 and 15 year old boys! Need I say more or are you that racist yourself that you are so eager to play the race card on a bunch of young boys.

Being STUPID isn't racist!

If this occurred in a "white" cemetery with a bunch of black or Latino teenagers I'd bet you'd sing a different tune.

They are young boys who vandalized and should have to make restitution... Not go to jail for a Hate Crime!

You're a couple cards short of a full deck!

Dawg Pound - First of all, Jewish is not a race; it's a religion, so your first point is moot. There was some sort of indication, be it a sign, a Jewish star, something at the entrance which would make any reasonably intelligent person realize that it was a Jewish facility of some sort. Upon seeing the gravestones with Jewish stars or Hebrew or Yiddish characters on them, they probably more than realize they were in a Jewish cemetery.

I did not say theirs was a hate crime, but I am saying that they knew what they were doing - desecrating a Jewish cemetery.

i agree with resetting of stones and paying for the ones too badly damaged.I would like to include another thought..since they are minors,how about having them apologise to the families of the deceased?

They're minors. You can't.

So tired of teens hiding behind the status of minors when they cause so much trouble. If they are old enough to commit the crime they should be old enough to serve the time.

So tired of people hiding behind the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing- they should just be lynched in order to put these accusations to rest. (SARCASM)

Public disemboweling. That'll teach em.

The practice of withholding the names of youthful criminals only serves to encourage the behavior, as well as to create a window of opportunity for them to offend. It is high time to draw the lines between what truly is a crime and what isn't, instead of who gets punished and who gets off scot free. Why do 18 year olds get locked up for five years for selling a friend a joint, while seventeen year olds get a slap on the wrist for violent and property crimes?

Put them in stocks in front of the cemetary, and let the Jewish families throw rotten eggs, and other stuff at them for 2 days; I'm betting the boys get a lesson they'll never forget. Yeah, I agree release their names in the local paper, also but after they've been splattered.

Withholding the names of "minors" and sealing their records just sets up new and maybe bigger crimes Okay, 10 year olds are truly still children. But,these kids KNOW what they did was wrong and highly insensitive. People in their area should know who they and their parents are.

Newsflash!! Teenagers in groups do stupid things, been that way since teens came into existence. Working their rowdy butts repairing the damage will repay the damage and help develop that part of the brain which controls stupid behavior

Make them stand in for the headstones until new ones are made. Whenever somebody visits those graves ones of these kids will have to stand there, read what was written on the gravestone to the visitors, and apologize for what they did,

they should also have to apologise to the families.

What a sad commentary on some of today's youth

Actually I have an old grave stone on the property I live on from 40+ yrs ago when my husbands uncle stole it with his friends b/c they thought it would be funny. I just think that some boys do stupid things b/c they're young and think things are funny when in reality they aren't.

Zapper, ... its not just todays youth ... I am 68 years old ... and this happens quite frequently in towns across America ... and it's always teenagers .... it's something i could never understand.

Annon-280171: If you know where it came from, and has info on it, it should be returned. If it has already been replaced (surely it has) the family may want it on their property. Just my opinion here.

I can understand that, will have to give it a try.

Media cannot release names because they are minors.

They're still teens, they will learn to be adults eventually, just give them 10 years or so. Though I do agree that it was very disrespectful.

Annon- if my brothers and I had done something like that when we were teens we'd not only be out in the cemetary setting the stones back up; we'd also pay for it on our hind ends if you know what I mean. The problem is, spanking is now forbidden so kids don't really get punished for acts like this. See my previous comments on what a proper punishment should be.

Ed, that just means that your parents raised you properly and taught you personal responsibility, thank your parents! I can appreciate parents that raise children with respect.

Annon, if they're teenagers they don't get ten years to learn to be an adult. At 18, you're legally an adult and you have adult consequences. In today's society we treat 24 year-olds like children, but they're not. They've got to learn sooner rather than later that behaving like ignorant brats will lead to harsh consequences. Otherwise, I agree with everything you're saying. :-)

Darlin, you are preaching to the choir, but it doesn't change anything about it taking some longer than others to grow up and take responsibility for oneself.

growing up on the farm us kids never thought of doing things like kids today.i wish my parents had done more spanking and grounding..lol it was alot better than their WORK-RELEASE program,i guarentee that.

Again, names not released because they are minors.

Anyone who is different from you is targeted. On the African continent where Christianity is taking hold, practitioners of the old tradtions are targeted as witches and killed. Some fundamentalist Christians send hate messages toward everyone whose views they don't belive. Fundamentalist Muslims kill Christians. Skinheads target everyone they don't like. There was an article on NBC yesterday about the Buddhist majority in Burma persecuting the Muslim minority living there, incited by Buddhist monks.

It's what you do that matters, not whose Name you do it in!

Amanda - wish I could +1 your post more than once. Well said.

Me too. I agree with Amanda whole-heartedly. It's time for people to stop being cruel to each other in the name of the God they profess to serve.

PA Observer, Sensei:

You're welcome--that's one of the guiding tenets of my belief system, that the only thing that matters is what you do. If a stroller with a baby in it rolls out into traffic and is saved by a Satanist, does that make the life saved worth any less? If someone visits the sick in a nursing home, is that deed worth more if a Christian does it than a Muslim?

I'm a practicing pagan, and I wear a pentagram right next to my dog tags. A couple weeks ago I saw a lady running to catch the bus about to pull away from the curb--I knocked on the bus door and stopped the bus so she could get on. She looked at me as she was about to get on and saw the pentagram (and I saw the cross hanging around her neck)and told me I was going to hell before she got on and the bus pulled away. But she caught her bus.

Names not released because they are minors. Basic rule in the US.

Three teenagers They aren't allowed to release the names of minors, and the police may have realized that it wasn't a hate crime b/c the teens were just being stupid teens, not actually desecrating Jewish headstones for the sole fact that they were Jewish. That and it was on the way to the park that they went to, convenient fun, in their opinion.

OMG, Arian and others, how many friggin' times do you have to be reminded that it is ILLEGAL to release names of minors?

What everyone seems to have missed, (unless they have amended the story sometime between the time previous comments were posted and my reading the article) is that the story repeatedly refers to them as teenagers, but never disclosed their ages and never referred to them as minors. They said the names of the suspects were NOT RELEASED, but never once said that their names were BEING WITHHELD because of their ages. There is a big difference. My daughter is a teenager and guess what? She voted last week because in the eyes of the law, she is considered to be an adult. People seem to forget that 18 & 19 year olds are STILL TEENAGERS but are NOT underage. Again, unless there is a previous version of this article of which I am not aware, we therefore do not know why they are withholding their names. I figure it's because the parents know THEIR properties will likely be vandalized for what their kids have done, and I almost think they deserve it. They should've raised them to be respectful of the dead.

Sensei said:

What everyone seems to have missed, (unless they have amended the story sometime between the time previous comments were posted and my reading the article) is that the story repeatedly refers to them as teenagers, but never disclosed their ages and never referred to them as minors.

They're 14 and 15.

Per the Harford Courant, who first broke the news;

HARTFORD — Police have arrested three teenagers suspected of knocking over several dozen headstones at the Congregation Ados Israel Cemetery at Tower Avenue and Waverly Street last month.

The teens, who are between 14 and 15 years of age, are each charged with interfering with a cemetery or burial ground and criminal mischief. Neither charge is a serious juvenile offense, said Lt. Brian Foley.

Each teen was issued a summons and referred to juvenile court.

"It is important to remember that this is a bittersweet day for the Jewish community; the emotional damage that this senseless act has put on these families will last a lifetime," Lisa Vaeth, director of the Association of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Hartford, said in a statement.

"We will now have to consider investing in security measures that we cannot readily afford," Vaeth said.

Foley said the boys live in the neighborhood and would cross through the cemetery every day on their way to the park.

The toppled headstones were discovered and reported Oct. 19, but police suspect the damage occurred over an extended period of time, Foley said.

It was initially investigated as a hate crime. "However, after identifying the suspects, we do not feel that there is any anti-Semitic bias involved in this incident," Foley said.

The teens were identified as suspects from tips that neighborhood residents gave to Officer Teresa Velez, the community service officer.

Note also that the Courant says several dozen headstones; I don't understand how 'several dozen' turned into 'nearly a hundred' the NBC news article describes.

Really.

Cause "nice" kids from money and two-parent homes would NEVER think of disrespecting others or vandalism, especially if they think they can get away with it.

Um, yeah.

Hey, hey, hey! White trash has a right to keep up with black trash and brown trash! And, don't you forget it.

You must live in a white trash neighborhood to even think like that. You probably have been out in the sun and have a sunburn on your ignorant neck and skinhead. Not all low income families and neighborhoods breed low life bigots which it seems that you appear to be. If you think something needs to be done , get involved with the local school district and schools. There and numerous charities out there that need help and if you can get children involved in community service that would be great. Our local High School requires Seniors to do some type of community service to graduate. Most do car washes for charity. One group planted a big garden and gave the produce to the food bank. Others collected food for the food bank. Some even visit elders in assisted living and listen to how things were back in the day and it makes them realize how much easier they have it now. I live in low income community and most of the young adults come from your so called "toothless" parents and have the support of their parents. Maybe you should wake up and look around and get involved in making your little part of the world a better, friendlier place to live. When was the last time you went to or had a neighborhood potluck picnic or block party? That would be a good place to start.

Pops said:

Our local High School requires Seniors to do some type of community service to graduate.

My municipality makes it a requirement for all high schoolers to perform community service in order to receive their diploma. They get a list of nonprofits in their area with underage volunteer programs and the students pick. I volunteer at our local animal shelter, and you'd be surprised how many kids want to come work with the animals.

Procrustes said:

This is what happens when toothless parents bring up illegitimate kids to become the next generation of white trash.

At our animal shelter we have a program where kids from the local juvenile detention center who are in for nonviolent crimes--shoplifting, petty vandalism, etc.--can come and work at the shelter during the day. A lot of these kids come in with hostile attitudes--many of them have never been taught what love is, what empathy is, how to care for another living thing because they haven't had anyone care about them.

I remember one kid who came in with a serious attitude and a chip on his shoulder. Nobody could get through to him, no one wanted to work with him (kids are paired with an adult volunteer while doing any sort of animal work) and although he was great with the animals he didn't get along with any of the people, and there was some talk of kicking him out of the program and sending him back to juvie. Our shelter director said no, give him just a little more time--to wash him out of the program would reinforce his idea that people viewed him as worthless and a failure--something his mother and father both screamed at him on a regular basis when they came to visit him in juvie, according to his records.

Then one day he came in, took a wrong turn and walked into the newly constructed Rainbow Room--the euthanasia room--and saw this metal safe that a sanitation worker had picked up by the side of the road, heard whimpering, and brought it into us. When we broke into it we found a litter of five pitbull puppies, all dead except one (it had to be about a hundred degrees in that safe, since outside temps were 90 degrees in the shade). The sanitation worker begged us to save that last puppy,and the kid begged us just as hard--we think he saw himself in that puppy, deemed worthless, unwanted, locked away and discarded.

His attitude changed completely. I've never seen someone change that fast. That puppy was the first thing he saw in the morning, the last thing he saw before he left in the afternoon. In between there was nothing he wouldn't do to help around the shelter--he knew that we're on a shoestring budget and the more hands that helped, the more money could be sent toward helping the animals. The sanitation worker was in almost everyday keeping an eye on the puppy's progress, and the two of them struck up a friendship; the worker respected that the kid was willing to put in this much time for a sick puppy he would never own, and the kid, for the first time in his life, had met an adult who respected him and thought he was worth something, and didn't automatically judge him for being in juvie.

Puppy survived, the sanitation worker adopted it, and both the worker and the kid volunteered around the shelter to help pay the puppy's medical bulls. They struck up a very close friendship--the sanitation worker became a better role model for the kid than the kid's own parents.When the kid got out of juvie a year later, he took the lessons he'd learned in compassion and self-worth and all three of them show up at our dog festivals and fundraisers, and the kid is now getting student loans to become a veterinarian (our shelter director wrote him a recommendation letter to college with this story in it.)

Love, care, consideration, patience, compassion and empathy can work miracles on someone's life, whether it be an animal or a child. Don't be so quick to judge--kids still have a lot of time to mature and grow.

Gee, thanks Amanda. Now I need a box of Kleenex.... +1,000,000 likes

I thought the $20K for 100 headstones was quite a bit off too. Unless many weren't damaged, just knocked over and can be easily reset.

I think the teens should all work at resetting the stones and making the proper restitution by working it off at the homes of the families whose graves they desecrated. Winter is coming. Think of all the driveways and walks they can shovel. Think of all the grocery runs to the store these kids can make. Each should spend at least one week in servitude to each family member.

The Hartford Courant, who originally ran this story, says that 'several dozen' headstones were toppled, there was no graffiti or other damage. However, as other news sources picked it up, the number of headstones damaged has grown.

I will go with the Hartford newspaper on this one since their reporters covered the story when it first broke and their pictures, taken the day after the discovery on Oct 19, would be the most accurate. $20,000 for 'several dozen' headstones toppled would make sense. $20,000 for 'nearly 100' doesn't.

Try, Try, Try, silly person, where have you been? This is the 21st century! Children have no responsibility or accountability for ANYTHING. They don't have to do ANYTHING. They take NO criticism. They NEVER lose. They don't have to KNOW anything. Children don't live in fear and respect for their parents, their parents live in fear and respect for THEM and if you don't believe that they'll find an attorney to sue you. They don't study because they already know everything. Just make sure they have their expensive vehicles, their HD TV's, their iPods, iPads, iPhones and concert tickets. And we all lived happily never after.

JPR, are you kidding? They have RIGHTS! We don't. And, if you don't believe me, ask them!