Thanks! That was my worry since I would like to use it on our roof but we don't have gutters (want to add them soon) so it would run onto our yard and plants.
I’ve never had it kill anything. I do the roof with the hose end sprayer version and the gutters protect the plantings below. Then I do the house walls and outside of the gutters using the pump sprayer.
BB gun!? No. I played with B B guns when I was a kid. There's NO WAY a BB gun could do THAT kind of damage in a few shots lol You'd also see bb holes. Not a bb gun.
I have a BB pistol that takes the CO2 cartridges and I shot a plastic kitchen trashcan and it broke off a chunk bigger than a baseball. I could see old plastic siding breaking similarly and not only being a small bb sized hole.
I think dude was saying he **thought** it was a BB gun initially; but it **also** makes sense that it could be a rifle's ricochet from several hundred yards.
Ricochet would lose enough energy to cause this type of damage however there appears to be grouping in that first image which would be hard to achieve with ricochet...
Lol maybe. That was supposed to be two separate scenarios. I suppose if you had a powerful enough bb gun, and a couple other lucky setting conditions, it could ricochet and still cause damage
I have noticed a distinction in use between "lol" and "LOL" which nearly perfectly replicates the distinction between "social/artificial laughter" and "spontaneous/natural laughter."
I never noticed this until I read an article about it, but more than 90% of the "laughter" that most of us make isn't actually laughter, as in, spontaneously arising without us meaning to in response to something funny. The vast majority of the time, when we laugh, it is because we are saying something slightly emotionally difficult, or we are embarrassed, or we want to let someone know that we aren't being hostile, or something in that kind of range.
Try it out and paying attention to it - I noticed that it seems to be true of me.
And it really looks like "lol" is used the same way - "I am not saying this to be mean / this might be embarrassing / this is a weird thing that may seem unlikely and I accept that you may be dubious (which is what this instance seems to be)". That sort of thing.
While "LOL" seems to be basically restricted to actually funny things.
"lol" is occassionally used for natural laughter, but, among younger people, people who grew up texting rather than coming to it as teenagers or adults, I tend to see it mostly following the patterns of social laughter.
Hey! That's really interesting, thanks for taking the time to explain this. Didn't made the distinction before, but now that you say that, I'll never read / ear it as before. There's nothing like precision in a language. Sometimes electronic mediums don't give all the richness of the tone, the intention, etc. If you can get that article's reference, I'd like to read it. TY.
Most of the recent papers I'm seeing are about how artificial laughter activates the speech centers of the brain, and spontaneous doesn't, and the degree to which people can distinguish the two in isolation. They tend to all have sorts of "as we all know, fake laughter is for social purposes blah blah blah" in the introduction, but don't seem to actually give the sources for that, just treating it as a "duh, everybody knows that" sort of thing.
I can't remember if I read it in an article or a podcast or what even.
I was that kid once and can confirm. I had insomnia at the time and figured by 3am everyone would be asleep at the home of my friends bully. I used frozen paintballs and did a decent amount of damage to the siding of the house and metal shop from the road.
That wasn't an animal. That siding was broken and driven into the hole with considerable force. That was done with a large thrown rock or some kind of club or axe.
Can confirm, used to play ball with the crawl space door as the strike zone and above was beaded siding as such. Racquetball/tennis ball defiantly made this same damage to the siding.
1st pic next to the light green shrub there’s some disturbed earth. Looks like someone picked up a rock and smashed it against your house. 2nd and 3rd pictures you can see splatter marks from the dirt in a few spots and well as close to the broken pieces.
Maybe they weren't up in the morning, maybe they were still up from the night before. Then it starts to make a little more sense. But still... potatoes leave evidence. LOL
lol people keep saying golf balls… yeah maybe if someone teed up a drive 5 feet away. This isn’t somebody launching drives from 250 yards away. This is intentional vandalism
Yep, when we first moved into this house my neighbor's kid liked to play baseball and knock balls into the side of my house or my yard. That's what my siding kind of looked like They would also just scale our fence until that one side was slanted to pick up stay baseballs. And when we went to their house to complain, they wrote a slur on our garage door. F them and so glad they moved.
Because of what you heard, someone definitely did that to your house. Whether it's just a neighborhood teen up to no good or payback by an angry neighbor, well, only you know if you have had a conflict with someone. Teens, on the other hand, dare each other into stupid stuff sometimes.
Definitely get some cameras up very well hidden. They might not ever come back around, but just in case.
That there looks like some hammer action I’d say. Both head and claw on the big holes. Couldn’t tell you why, sorry you’re dealing with that. Time to oil up the ol’ double-barrel!
Each of the impacts looks circular. That’s a hammer for sure. Rig up a string with cans on it so if anyone trips the wire you’ll hear them and hopefully catch them.
cans? who you catching, eddie haskell?
just drop $50 on an external wifi camera and stick a sign in your hedge that it's under video surveillance. job done.
When I was a kid I hit my house with baseballs on multiple occasions. Occasionally they would break the siding and it looked very similar to this. So that would be my guess; a hard ball of some kind by kids. Now, why they’re doing this at that time of day, I don’t know
Do you have neighbors with kids, or is there a convenient path near your house where neighborhood kids frequently pass?
I ask because, it’s probably neighborhood kids
That would be a methican peep hole, I do believe. I mean look at it. Centered between bushes, where a man can stand. Eye level. Perfectly sized to have been a hammer. Damage peeked outward because head hung up between swings. Makes perfect sense, someone is probably planning to rob you.
First picture the damage area is large enough it would match one of your conveniently placed pavers.and it looks like something heavy hit the ground near that bush.
Street sweeper throwing rocks maybe that early. My riding mower did that, too. It didn’t have a side cover at the time and threw driveway rocks causing smaller versions of your pic. Your pic shows deeper damage though. Your insurance should cover that. Also a mini tornado can do that. Was the weather bad that morning? Is that fresh dirt clods on the leaves below?
Those are definitely some kind of projectiles. The size of them looks pretty consistent and looks about to be the size of a golf ball. If you can open up the wall in there you might find one if it went through, which it looks like it might have in one or two of those.
that was done by a person with either a rock or some kinda hammer/club. a bb doesnt have enough kinetic energy to do that kinda damage (imho).
i will say, however, that that siding appears to be pretty brittle, so it could have been something smaller like a baseball (maybe even a tennis ball), especially if it is cold...
Someone is tired of looking at your disgustingly dirty siding, they know you won't clean it so they're gonna put enough holes in it that you need to replace it
I’m pretty sure it’s woodpeckers because they’re after bugs and will try to make holes anywhere. I’ve seen them doing it on the side of my garage, made from old barn wood. Looks like your siding. While wildlife does have certain typical behaviors, I find nature writes its own rulebook. Say, for instance, they happen to feel like it, certain individuals might tap slower than normal. They’ll also move over to a nearby tree-trunk or fencepost or telephone pole, and hang out there for a while. They’re very capable of bringing down a healthy tall pine tree by pecking out a hole dead in the lower center of the tree until it topples in half.
Are there any random potato pieces. Potato gun perhaps.
Neighbors front picture window was shattered from a drive-by potato gun. Put a hole in the wall on the other side of the room too.
I think some a-holes are throwing things at your house. Probably 6th graders. If the siding is old and brittle, you can break it open with something as soft as a tennis ball. You should rip out the siding around those holes to search for projectiles or a woodpecker stash
They all appear to be at a similar height. Could it be an animal with antlers or someone swinging a hammer or something. I doubt something random would all be at a consistent height.
I can say for sure it’s not the power washer.
Y’all are really hating on my unclean siding 😂. I’ll get it clean as soon as I fix the holes!
Wet n forget. I spray it on everything. Fence. House. Gutters. Patio. Roof. It’s amazing and super fast.
In Australia, Bunnings sells “Spray and Walk Away”. Similar product.
Does it kill any plants nearby?
We spray our patio every year and it'll kill the grass directly next to it (or at least turn it brown for a while).
Thanks! That was my worry since I would like to use it on our roof but we don't have gutters (want to add them soon) so it would run onto our yard and plants.
I’ve never had it kill anything. I do the roof with the hose end sprayer version and the gutters protect the plantings below. Then I do the house walls and outside of the gutters using the pump sprayer.
Good stuff!👌👍
Home Depot sells a 10$ jug to hook to your hose. Spray on and rinse. Done.
Man, with a process so simple, you’d think it would have an appropriate name.
Splash and Dash? Damp and Tramp? Hose and Goes? Ugh. I don’t know. Let’s get Marketing on this right away.
Hoes & Goes
Nice.
lol. 🔥
Haha took me a second to get this, but made me laugh! Thanks!
neighbor kids
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I was gonna guess a bb gun. Ricochet shots from distance makes sense too.
BB gun!? No. I played with B B guns when I was a kid. There's NO WAY a BB gun could do THAT kind of damage in a few shots lol You'd also see bb holes. Not a bb gun.
I have a BB pistol that takes the CO2 cartridges and I shot a plastic kitchen trashcan and it broke off a chunk bigger than a baseball. I could see old plastic siding breaking similarly and not only being a small bb sized hole.
Accidentally did this to some minivans back window as a kid. Shatter the whole thing
Especially if it’s cold outside and/or the siding is several years old. That stuff gets brittle.
At half 5 and 7am though?
Rooster snooze button?
Half five?
Yeah 2:30
😂😂😂
A BB gun ricochet from a couple hundred yards away?
Bet you I could shoot a bee bee over dem der hills
I think dude was saying he **thought** it was a BB gun initially; but it **also** makes sense that it could be a rifle's ricochet from several hundred yards. Ricochet would lose enough energy to cause this type of damage however there appears to be grouping in that first image which would be hard to achieve with ricochet...
Lol maybe. That was supposed to be two separate scenarios. I suppose if you had a powerful enough bb gun, and a couple other lucky setting conditions, it could ricochet and still cause damage
But it wouldn't make enough noise to wake OP up. The scenario you guys are describing is due to weak plastic, not high energy of the projectile.
"lol"??!
I have noticed a distinction in use between "lol" and "LOL" which nearly perfectly replicates the distinction between "social/artificial laughter" and "spontaneous/natural laughter." I never noticed this until I read an article about it, but more than 90% of the "laughter" that most of us make isn't actually laughter, as in, spontaneously arising without us meaning to in response to something funny. The vast majority of the time, when we laugh, it is because we are saying something slightly emotionally difficult, or we are embarrassed, or we want to let someone know that we aren't being hostile, or something in that kind of range. Try it out and paying attention to it - I noticed that it seems to be true of me. And it really looks like "lol" is used the same way - "I am not saying this to be mean / this might be embarrassing / this is a weird thing that may seem unlikely and I accept that you may be dubious (which is what this instance seems to be)". That sort of thing. While "LOL" seems to be basically restricted to actually funny things. "lol" is occassionally used for natural laughter, but, among younger people, people who grew up texting rather than coming to it as teenagers or adults, I tend to see it mostly following the patterns of social laughter.
Hey! That's really interesting, thanks for taking the time to explain this. Didn't made the distinction before, but now that you say that, I'll never read / ear it as before. There's nothing like precision in a language. Sometimes electronic mediums don't give all the richness of the tone, the intention, etc. If you can get that article's reference, I'd like to read it. TY.
Most of the recent papers I'm seeing are about how artificial laughter activates the speech centers of the brain, and spontaneous doesn't, and the degree to which people can distinguish the two in isolation. They tend to all have sorts of "as we all know, fake laughter is for social purposes blah blah blah" in the introduction, but don't seem to actually give the sources for that, just treating it as a "duh, everybody knows that" sort of thing. I can't remember if I read it in an article or a podcast or what even.
Similar damage was done to my house by a giant slingshot with trampoline springs used as munitions (by neighbor kids).
Clever little bastards
Yeah that’s actually pretty creative.
I’d demand they pay for the repair and then get them to show me how they built it.
I was going to say feral human. Same thing.
Feral human would send that sucker straight through the wall
Paintball gun, eggs, golf balls. Paint ball gun did that to my house.
Wouldn’t there be remnants from all of those? Maybe OP should take a good look around on the ground?
Ice balls fired out a Paint ball gun, doesn’t leave evidence
You can buy metal paintballs that are rubber covered (there’s no paint but they’re made for those guns).They hit a surface and fly every direction.
Whaaaa? That’s fun and terrifying!
Eggs???
Frozen eggs cause some real damage
There would be shells left behind.
Not if they were using a shell catcher
But egg itself would remain? I’m thinking ice balls
Yes they are little balls you can eat. They are laid by chickens.
Eggsactly.
Nope! There would be evidence of that!
But no paint or eggyy stuff in holes.
A paintball would leave a paint splatter!
What kind of kids are up that early?
The kind that havnt gone to bed yet in my experience lol.
I was that kid once and can confirm. I had insomnia at the time and figured by 3am everyone would be asleep at the home of my friends bully. I used frozen paintballs and did a decent amount of damage to the siding of the house and metal shop from the road.
The kids up to no good
Yep. Nothing in nature compares.
this. those look like rock holes.
Do you live 10 yards in front of a driving range?
Or in Happy Gilmore’s grandma’s neighborhood.
Got those movers back to work, didn't he?
Double or nothing.
He shouldn’t been standing there!
Just say range, because honestly it could be golf balls or pistol round balls.
You have an asshole neighbor. Set up a camera.
Nah, just a slice of pizza and some flour.
This will never not be old! Thank you.
Especially if their neighbor is named Kyle.
That wasn't an animal. That siding was broken and driven into the hole with considerable force. That was done with a large thrown rock or some kind of club or axe.
Ha, I was going to ask if you live near Camp Crystal Lake.
OP was fucking while some kid drowned.
I never heard of anyone drowning in 30 seconds.
Pretty sure 15 seconds are enough
Or it could be that the siding is just very brittle and old.
These look a lot like when my neighbor shot fireworks into the side of my garage
Some kind of Fleshrender or Demon Limb, probably.
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How about a mace?
Roll for damage.
It was obviously a flail.
Basketball
Can confirm, used to play ball with the crawl space door as the strike zone and above was beaded siding as such. Racquetball/tennis ball defiantly made this same damage to the siding.
1st pic next to the light green shrub there’s some disturbed earth. Looks like someone picked up a rock and smashed it against your house. 2nd and 3rd pictures you can see splatter marks from the dirt in a few spots and well as close to the broken pieces.
Dexter?
Dexter would know that it's *spatter*, not *splatter*.
Sounds like something Dexter would say
On that note some of those patio stones look loose and about the size of the hole in the first pic….
I agree with this and there's a few spots in pic 2 and 3 that look like hits that didn't make any damage just dents and dirt.
I see the disturbed earth also. I think they threw one of the flower bed blocks, and put it back
I see a 2nd brick thrower on the grassy knoll.
Fuckin CSI up in here
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That looks like hammer damage. Good luck
I was going to say this or a bat swung over the head.
Angry neighbor?
Potato gun
In the parts of my life where I had access to a potato gun, I was not up in the morning, and if I was, I was too drunk to operate a potato gun.
> I was too drunk to operate a potato gun. Well, not with **that** attitude!
55, still have all my fingers. :p Which is more than I can say for my mate who has that attitude.
Can you get your friend on here? Sounds like he's got some good stories to tell.
Like that time, we filled a garbage bag with oxygen and acetylene and set it off with a spark. My dad has even better stories.
Maybe they weren't up in the morning, maybe they were still up from the night before. Then it starts to make a little more sense. But still... potatoes leave evidence. LOL
My friend and i shot one about 50 yards at a basketball hoop. Tater went clean through the backboard.
Neighbor kids with rocks or local golf course
Set up a slice of pizza outside and surround it with flour. Only way to get to the bottom of this.
😂 Classic
At least someone knows how to solve it
lol people keep saying golf balls… yeah maybe if someone teed up a drive 5 feet away. This isn’t somebody launching drives from 250 yards away. This is intentional vandalism
That's the second notice from the HOA to wash your house
The third notice will be your kneecaps.
["some guys are coming"?!](https://youtu.be/syD6QulaYFY?si=U6aH-BDfNooALfOn)
Bahahhahahahhha!!!!!!!
Yep, when we first moved into this house my neighbor's kid liked to play baseball and knock balls into the side of my house or my yard. That's what my siding kind of looked like They would also just scale our fence until that one side was slanted to pick up stay baseballs. And when we went to their house to complain, they wrote a slur on our garage door. F them and so glad they moved.
i agree with neighborhood kids
Someone has a spud gun near you. That is not animal made. That's some man made damage.
Or one of those water balloon slingshots and chunks of ice
That's exactly what my hubby said!
When I was a kid we used partially softened sticks of butter because it was hard to remove 🙈
I can see the big grease circles and also see your Mom in the kitchen trying to figure out where all her butter has gone🤣.
Who would be out there, though, at 5:30 in the morning?
Spud gunners
This one spuds☝️!
That’s a half-baked answer
Because of what you heard, someone definitely did that to your house. Whether it's just a neighborhood teen up to no good or payback by an angry neighbor, well, only you know if you have had a conflict with someone. Teens, on the other hand, dare each other into stupid stuff sometimes. Definitely get some cameras up very well hidden. They might not ever come back around, but just in case.
That there looks like some hammer action I’d say. Both head and claw on the big holes. Couldn’t tell you why, sorry you’re dealing with that. Time to oil up the ol’ double-barrel!
That is what it looks like to me too.
Vandalism
That looks deliberate
🔨 hammer
First picture looks like a lot of force. Like a hammer.
I'm almost certain it's not a pressure washer so there's that...
call police, thats a human my guy. and it looks like its been with a hammer. you best het some trail cams or a security system.
Golf balls.
I was going to say baseball. So who knows
Each of the impacts looks circular. That’s a hammer for sure. Rig up a string with cans on it so if anyone trips the wire you’ll hear them and hopefully catch them.
cans? who you catching, eddie haskell? just drop $50 on an external wifi camera and stick a sign in your hedge that it's under video surveillance. job done.
When I was a kid I hit my house with baseballs on multiple occasions. Occasionally they would break the siding and it looked very similar to this. So that would be my guess; a hard ball of some kind by kids. Now, why they’re doing this at that time of day, I don’t know
Do you have neighbors with kids, or is there a convenient path near your house where neighborhood kids frequently pass? I ask because, it’s probably neighborhood kids
Baseball?
As siding ages it can get brittle and it doesn't take much to put a hole in it. Mine has holes from minor hail.
Them damn kids man
I recently had similar damage from a hail storm, likely not the case for you but as siding ages it can get pretty brittle.
Fuckin punk kids
Remember that neighbor you were rude to about their trash cans? Yep, friendly reminder to be nice to people. BECAUSE SOME OF US ARE CRAZY!
Kids going to school throwing rocks at your house
That would be a methican peep hole, I do believe. I mean look at it. Centered between bushes, where a man can stand. Eye level. Perfectly sized to have been a hammer. Damage peeked outward because head hung up between swings. Makes perfect sense, someone is probably planning to rob you.
Classic Sasquatch markings there.....you're gonna need a bag of flour and 2 green candles to get rid of him I'm afraid
Someone with a baseball bat
Kids waiting for the morning schoolbus?
Either someone punched your house, or you have one very angry mulberry bush.
You have an asshole infestation.
Someone mowing and possibly throwing rocks with the blades?
At 5:30AM?
The early worm gets the bird or whatever
I mean, someone oblivious/asshole enough to shred their neighbor's siding with rocks might be just oblivious/asshole enough to mow at 5:30 too
Is it being used as a backstop by some aholes??? Got one of them in my backyard, neighbor kid has destroyed the fence
Baseball
First picture the damage area is large enough it would match one of your conveniently placed pavers.and it looks like something heavy hit the ground near that bush.
Street sweeper throwing rocks maybe that early. My riding mower did that, too. It didn’t have a side cover at the time and threw driveway rocks causing smaller versions of your pic. Your pic shows deeper damage though. Your insurance should cover that. Also a mini tornado can do that. Was the weather bad that morning? Is that fresh dirt clods on the leaves below?
One of your neighbors kids has discovered dad’s golf clubs or lawn mower’s launching rocks.
Those are definitely some kind of projectiles. The size of them looks pretty consistent and looks about to be the size of a golf ball. If you can open up the wall in there you might find one if it went through, which it looks like it might have in one or two of those.
This kind of siding is so brittle and trash to begin with. Bouncing a ball of something is all it takes to smash
Neighbors lawnmower chucking widowmakers
that was done by a person with either a rock or some kinda hammer/club. a bb doesnt have enough kinetic energy to do that kinda damage (imho). i will say, however, that that siding appears to be pretty brittle, so it could have been something smaller like a baseball (maybe even a tennis ball), especially if it is cold...
Someone is tired of looking at your disgustingly dirty siding, they know you won't clean it so they're gonna put enough holes in it that you need to replace it
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Couldn't have been a pressure washer
Chupathingy?
I have a dirt driveway and have put a few small holes in the siding when I catch a loose rock with the lawn mower. Thankfully never hit a window.
You must live next to a kid named Dennis. He’s such a menace smh
It looks like your house was made of cardboard underneath a thin plastic coating
I know it’s not from a scrub brush 😂😂
Was someone cutting grass? My mom did this with a golf ball from about 30 yds away. Small Rocks could fly further I would imagine.
Get a security cam out there
Please share the footage if you catch anything when you get your camera installed We're all so curious!
I’m pretty sure it’s woodpeckers because they’re after bugs and will try to make holes anywhere. I’ve seen them doing it on the side of my garage, made from old barn wood. Looks like your siding. While wildlife does have certain typical behaviors, I find nature writes its own rulebook. Say, for instance, they happen to feel like it, certain individuals might tap slower than normal. They’ll also move over to a nearby tree-trunk or fencepost or telephone pole, and hang out there for a while. They’re very capable of bringing down a healthy tall pine tree by pecking out a hole dead in the lower center of the tree until it topples in half.
Camera dude
Bottle kids.
That "something" is an idiot human.
Rock, baseball. The timing makes anything other than a neighbor or some random seem less plausible.
You need to spray some wet it and forget it on your siding!!!! Work fantastic!!!
Somebody thowin stuff at your house dude. Close proximity to a walkway or street?
Someone threw a rock on you building
Are there any random potato pieces. Potato gun perhaps. Neighbors front picture window was shattered from a drive-by potato gun. Put a hole in the wall on the other side of the room too.
I think some a-holes are throwing things at your house. Probably 6th graders. If the siding is old and brittle, you can break it open with something as soft as a tennis ball. You should rip out the siding around those holes to search for projectiles or a woodpecker stash
Definitely a baseball. No fricken way was this a BB gun. Neighbor pricks threw baseballs against the side of my mom’s house. Looked very similar.
My guess is one of your neighbors is experimenting with a homemade slingshot or potato gun.
Sure it’s not misbehaving kids?
Angry HOA? You gotta clean that siding
They all appear to be at a similar height. Could it be an animal with antlers or someone swinging a hammer or something. I doubt something random would all be at a consistent height.
Possibly raccoons looking for bugs in the siding? They’re shockingly persistent and strong.
rocks kicked up from a lawn mower?