Thursday, November 10, 2005

TheStar.com - Tiny tots are suspects in house trashing

"LISTOWEL, Ont. (CP) — Two toddlers who vandalized a southwestern Ontario home this week have been put in the care of children's aid officials, police said Wednesday.
Provincial police said they will not pursue criminal charges against the parents of the 2-year-old boys, who are cousins.
The two boys wandered away from their home Tuesday morning and entered a nearby bungalow through a sliding door, police said.
The boys were discovered there a while later, standing amid a scene of destruction.
A bedroom had been ransacked, the contents of a refrigerator dumped onto the floor, and a large sheet of drywall that had been leaning against a wall was broken.
Homeowners Eileen and Richard Peppler said water was poured into their daughter's electric guitar, plants were knocked over, and one tot's diaper found its way into a basement aquarium.
The barefoot boys — who Clarkson said are both approaching their third birthday — were taken to hospital for a checkup once it was discovered they'd been into plant fertilizer.
One of the boys also cut his feet on broken glass in the kitchen.
The children were discovered missing after police arrived at their home on an unrelated matter and found a door wide open and two adults asleep inside.
Richard Peppler said he's having a hard time believing the boys didn't have an accomplice.
'These must be awfully extraordinary 2-year-olds to do this sort of thing,' Peppler said Wednesday.
'For a pair of two-year-olds to have a steady attention span to continually wreck stuff for two hours ... I think the kids had to have help."

Ok, my favourite part is the diaper in the aquarium in the basement!