Thursday was a bad day for mailboxes

A scan of the police logs from the Naperville Sun reveals mailboxes have been the chosen target of ne'er-do-wells and roving bands of rabid mailbox haters:

2 Property damage: About 9:30 p.m., blunt object used to damage plastic mailbox valued at $40 outside home at 716 Colorado Court.

8 Property damage: Between midnight and 7 a.m., metal mailboxes damaged outside homes at 2628, 2632 and 2640 Hoddam Road; total damage estimated at $310.

9 Property damage: Between 11 p.m. Feb. 25 and 7 a.m., mailboxes and mounting posts damaged outside homes at 4516 and 4519 Pipestone Court; combined damage estimated at $40.

In other police news, a homeowner was the unhappy recipient of 8-inch-deep tire tracks left in 25-foot-long section of front lawn of a home at 1120 Langley Court, after a motorist drove over sod to avoid water in street; damage estimated at $200. Would it have been so hard to turn around and go another way?

And lastly, Theft: Between 2:30 and 3 p.m., state of Illinois vehicle registration sticker valued at $8 stolen from rear license plate of car parked in lot outside Marshalls, 240 S. Route 59.