So last night, my partner came home from class and called me outside saying that there was something funny looking about the new smoker. The cover was still on it, and it was dark, so we couldn't see very well, but we could tell pretty fast that someone had hit it with a vehicle and pretty much mangled it beyond repair, as far as I can see. It was hit with enough force to drive it INTO our house, punching a hole through the siding. (Granted, this house is pushing 150 years old and the owner doesn't put any money into it, so some of the siding is in really bad shape, but still.)
We have a rental car place across the street that uses the lot next to our house for parking their vehicles, which include a large number of big cargo and passenger vans, and they routinely encroach on what little parking area we have behind the house, and when there are no cars parked there, they use that area to whip around their vehicles and get them arranged in the lot. So I'm like 99% sure it was one of their drivers, but of course, neither the DVR on our security system or our neighbors' are recording right now, so we have no proof.
I also have no smoker. The metal just kind of buckled around the cast iron grates in there, the side tray (expanded metal) is just folded in on itself, and the cooking chamber won't even open... and if it did, it wouldn't close enough to hold in smoke anymore anyway.
We are hoping our landlord will be upset enough about the hole in the house to make a stink with the car rental people, but who knows... and our renters' insurance deductible is almost as much as we paid for the grill and accessories, so that's out. I just don't understand people who would do something like this. I will admit I cried like a little girl last night, and again today at work, and again today when I got home and took off the cover to look at it more closely. People sure can be real jerks. :(
I guess I'll go back to smoking on my grill again for the foreseeable future. Thanks for letting me vent. :(
Sunny
We have a rental car place across the street that uses the lot next to our house for parking their vehicles, which include a large number of big cargo and passenger vans, and they routinely encroach on what little parking area we have behind the house, and when there are no cars parked there, they use that area to whip around their vehicles and get them arranged in the lot. So I'm like 99% sure it was one of their drivers, but of course, neither the DVR on our security system or our neighbors' are recording right now, so we have no proof.
I also have no smoker. The metal just kind of buckled around the cast iron grates in there, the side tray (expanded metal) is just folded in on itself, and the cooking chamber won't even open... and if it did, it wouldn't close enough to hold in smoke anymore anyway.
We are hoping our landlord will be upset enough about the hole in the house to make a stink with the car rental people, but who knows... and our renters' insurance deductible is almost as much as we paid for the grill and accessories, so that's out. I just don't understand people who would do something like this. I will admit I cried like a little girl last night, and again today at work, and again today when I got home and took off the cover to look at it more closely. People sure can be real jerks. :(
I guess I'll go back to smoking on my grill again for the foreseeable future. Thanks for letting me vent. :(
Sunny
