>John A. Craft wrote:
>
>> Good for you!
>
>  Are we all rednecks on this list?  OK, so be it.
>
>  (A couple of weeks back our home was egged on two separate nights,
>late at night and in one case, during rain!  There's been a lot of rain
>lately mind you.  I'm not overly worried about that; it's negligible
>damage, bio-degradable and my son and I had a fairly entertaining time
>removing *most* of it with the water lance.  The perps were I think
>responsible on the second occasion, for a "bang" of moderate loudness
>which has me puzzled, and may have broken off a shrub or it may have
>been borers.  It's just not nice to be nervous.)
>--
>  Cheers,
>        Paul B.
Paul,

Mutually assured distruction is a valid an proven technique.  If you
display your force, maybe by taking out one of your eggers - you can be
sure that they won't be back. :)

Jc.