Partygoers Vandalize Robert Frost's Home

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News/AP

A former home of poet Robert Frost in the U.S. state of Vermont has been vandalized, with intruders destroying dozens of items and setting fire to furniture in what police say was an underage drinking party.

Homer Noble Farm, a former Frost residence that's now a historic landmark, was ransacked late Friday night during a party attended by up to 50 people, Sgt. Lee Hodsden said Monday.

The intruders broke a window to get into the two-story wood frame building - a furnished residence open in the summer - before destroying tables and chairs, pictures, windows, light fixtures and dishes. Wicker furniture and dressers were smashed and thrown into a fireplace and burned, apparently to provide heat in the unheated building, he said.

Empty beer bottles and cans, plastic cups and cellophane apparently used to hold marijuana were also found, according to Hodsden. The vandals vomited in the living room and discharged two fire extinguishers inside the building.

Police found empty alcohol containers and vomit on the floor, reports CBS News affiliate WCAX-TV.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/31/national/main3658501.shtml

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My sentence would be to clean up their mess, pay for the damages and to read Robert Frost! These clowns are my definition of punks!

[Fenris]

1. Not fire, nor ice, but vandalism.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Perhaps it was an act of literary criticism?

:popcorn:

[wtmusic]

14. Mm. Free speech.

We need an amendment forbidding the burning of wicker furniture. Or vomiting. Or both.

:popcorn:

[EFerrari]

24. Aggressive deconstruction? Maybe they were a bunch of Lacanians.

[JVS]

30. I consider it both a political and aesthetic statement!

[Cassandra]

3. They can read Robert Frost on their way...

to basic training.

[BlueIris]

6. Nice.

Holy shit.

[XemaSab]

4. Frost:

"Next time get a better fence."

[KansDem]

5. Frost would have wished these goons take the other road...

...the one leading away from his house.

[gauguin57]

7. Whose house this is I think I know

He's been dead for decades, though.
He will not see us trash his place
And burn his furniture, high on blow ...

[NorthernSpy]

12. good one...

:D

[GMFORD]

35. That is the funniest comment I have ever read.

Anywhere! I laughed so hard tears were running down my face. I walked away, walked back, read it again and started laughing again. Brilliant!

[CornField]

36. Mr. CornField summed this up pretty well when I read it to him

"What assholes!"

On edit, not your poem, which we adored
This comment was meant for the afore.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Bastards. nt

[Window]

9. The house should have been equipped with hidden cameras.

Hopefully, they can lift and match fingerprints. Just disgusting.




Peace:thumbsup:

[Marrah_G]

10. I really do not understand people

If my child was there they would no longer have a life because they would be too busy working for the historical society and local library.....for free.

[Blue_Tires]

11. i bet their parents are proud....

[theHandpuppet]

15. Actually their parents probably don't give a shit

Or they would have known where their kids were, what they were doing and what kind of friends they had.

[EFerrari]

23. My friends and I used to go party in an abandoned house

in an orchard after football games. We never wrecked anything and never got stupid enough with our little beer and tiny roach to put ourselves in danger but, none of our parents ever found out. I don't think it was because they didn't care but more, they never imagined that we'd do such a thing.

[NashVegas]

13. If This Was Done By 18-20 Year Old College Students

In addition to the idiots who did this, I'll point the finger straight at MADD and Elizabeth Dole.

[bitchkitty]

16. Interesting - how so?

How is it MADD's fault, or Elizabeth Dole's fault?

[JVS]

31. I'm really curious too!

:popcorn:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. This happened to a historic house outside Minneapolis, too

Too many kids these days are brought up without any appreciation for beauty or history or literature.

[Fierce]

18. I must have missed the story...

...which house?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. One that is located in the suburbs near Shady Oak Road

It was the first house in the area, and it had been restored with period furniture as kind of community history museum. Some vandals got in, trashed it, and set it on fire.

[superconnected]

20. creeps.

[kikiek]

21. Their country bombs ancient artifact sites for no reason. They learned from the worst.

[Vinca]

22. There was a picture of the mess in our local (Vermont) paper.

How sad and what a total waste. If they can get a few good fingerprints off the bottles, maybe they can identify the idiots.

[Oak2004]

27. For Vermont, this is a big crime

They'll be found. And they'll forever regret December 31st, 2007.

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. It is so sad

They have no sense of history, no appreciation for beauty.

so damn sad.

[Xenotime]

26. Perhaps they just took the road not taken.

[Javaman]

28. Huh, I guess he should have mended that fence...nt

[Lisa]

33. sometimes, there's no keeping out bad neighbors! (n/t)

[Withywindle]

29. I don't get kids today.

I was kind of a bad seed. When I was a teenager I drank, smoked, did drugs, had sex, cut school, drove terrifyingly, shoplifted, wrote graffiti, set off pipe bombs....


But vandalizing a historic site? A POET'S house?

Nuh uh.

:scared:

VERY bad karma.

[JVS]

32. zOMG! Oh noes! Heavy metal vomit party!

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. How sad...I wonder if they even knew his poetry.

And if they did, would it have made a difference?