There's really not much better way to summarize this next story, but to say someone drove down a Wilkes road over the weekend with a ball bat hanging out the window of their car. Sheriff deputies took two reports of mailbox vandalism from homes near one another as the sun came up Sunday morning.

The first came from Steven Soots on Elledge Mill Road, the second minutes later from Robert Wagner on Bethany Ford Road. A deputy checking out the situation found eight additional mailboxes had been battered with a bat or a pipe during the night. Damage was noted in the 400 block of Elledge Mill Road, along with two boxes in the 700 block, two in the 800 block, one in the 900 block, one in the 1100 block and one in the 1400 block.

As frequently happens in this type of case, no one reports hearing anything or even noticing until the sun came up Sunday morning.

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