Dougco school vandals cause $15,000 in damage

"Dougco school vandals cause $15,000 in damage"


This article, posted in the Denver Post, shocked me. I was just scanning through to find an article and I glimpsed at the words, “Mountain Vista High School was vandalized.” Since I know several people from Vista, I quickly opened the article. At 1:45am this morning an employee with District Security patrolling the school parking lot spotted three people just wondering around, before any of the damage was discovered. The Vandals threw several large rocks through the windows near the front of the school. The rocks also damaged several office computers, and caused about $15,000 in damage.
After reading this article, I started thinking about all the people who could have done it. Could it have been Vista’s competitors? Or even a student from Vista? I think that vandalizing property, especially school property has no point. What are the reasons people do it? Is it to get revenge? Or is it to show hatred towards someone or something? I think what those people did to the school was terrible, and why would someone do such a thing? There is nothing that can happen to a person that has hurt them so badly mentally that they have to take revenge on someone else. What also upset me was in the article was that it stated the three vandals were spotted before any damage was even done. I think of this as, its 1:30 in the morning and District Security observed three strange people wondering the school and didn’t think of doing anything about it. It makes me wonder, how much exactly schools are being monitored at night. I just think this whole situation is terrible and could have been prevented.