Help Sian recover from Vandalism
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Our friend and longtime local Campbell River Resident has had some serious, absolutely senseless and terrifying vandalism happen on her property (details below) where she lives in a small house with her amazing special needs daughter. Sian is on disability and has limited mobility as well. No other neighbours have had any damage done and no one has seen anything. Sian does not have the money to repair all the damage done, let alone buy a security system.
The RCMP are aware, she has claims with ICBC but they are mounting considerably. Coming up with multiple deductibles is almost impossible for Sian. All 4 truck tires slashed with a large knife, gas tank filled with sugar and destroyed.
On her limited pension income, with this senseless act against them they cannot make ends meet. They will absolutely need assistance just for the bare essentials to survive now, and no one should have to live like this at the hands of some disgusting criminal who is targeting innocent victims who cannot defend themselves. Please read Sian's story below. If you can help, even with $5 please do! If you cannot help, please share her story and campaign, it is amazing what the kindness of friends and strangers can build to lift others up! We are hoping to raise money to help with the rising ICBC claims and repairs on the truck as well as essentials to survive for her and her daughter. If you can help with groceries, toiletries, household items or anything at all, please let us know! We can arrange a pick up! Thank you all for reading this, caring and sharing!
"Someone damaging your property makes you feel awful, and it's unnerving when you realize you are not a random victim. It's horrifying when you know you are the target of someone who hates you so much that over the course of 4 nights you have all four tires slashed, as well as sugar put into your gas tank.
Then it registers that you have unwittingly been having your gas siphoned for over a month leading up to the damage. The proof was the gas cap being on the ground, and two days later the gas cap was thrown out into my lawn area. The gas door twisted backward for good measure. And my truck is on empty, again. It all made sense now. Then as if showing off, the culprit left the yellow tube to the plastic gas can on the ground right below my sugar-coated fuel filler pipe.
I live on Perkins Road, a quiet, semi-rural, dead-end where we can enjoy wildlife visitors in our back yard and watch ships go by. I moved in two years ago with my special needs daughter. I have had no run-ins with anyone, and have no idea who is doing this. And doing it with gusto. These are not little puncture holes, these are multiple big knife slashes in the sides of my tires. Somebody is raging. This is an expression of something much deeper and nastier than just messing with me. I have reported these incidents to the RCMP and made an ICBC claim. But I still have to come up with a deductible, assuming this will all be covered, replacement tires, and whatever has to be done with my gas tank. I will need a tow truck, and security work done around my home.
As a senior with a disability, I live on a fixed pension that is below the poverty line. I can make life work for us, creatively, with no extras, but these costs are going to be devastating and we will have to do without basic living requirements for several months. And the vandalism may not stop. It also may accelerate to endangering me and my daughter. I will admit it, we are frightened. Maybe if the vandal reads this, he can take some satisfaction that he has scared the hell out of us and his actions have caused extreme hardship to me and my daughter, financially and emotionally.
As someone who is having ongoing outpatient care for a serious condition, and someone who needs the use of a vehicle every day, you have really screwed me over. I am losing sleep. I am anxious all the time. I am physically ill from stress. My daughter is tearful. Whatever you think I have done to deserve this, well, you have shown me. I am a long-time resident of Campbell River and done a lot to help people in the last 30 years. I consider myself kind, generous, and worked hard to make sure disenfranchised people had better lives and were treated fairly. Nobody deserves this. I don't deserve this. Now, please stop."
The RCMP are aware, she has claims with ICBC but they are mounting considerably. Coming up with multiple deductibles is almost impossible for Sian. All 4 truck tires slashed with a large knife, gas tank filled with sugar and destroyed.
On her limited pension income, with this senseless act against them they cannot make ends meet. They will absolutely need assistance just for the bare essentials to survive now, and no one should have to live like this at the hands of some disgusting criminal who is targeting innocent victims who cannot defend themselves. Please read Sian's story below. If you can help, even with $5 please do! If you cannot help, please share her story and campaign, it is amazing what the kindness of friends and strangers can build to lift others up! We are hoping to raise money to help with the rising ICBC claims and repairs on the truck as well as essentials to survive for her and her daughter. If you can help with groceries, toiletries, household items or anything at all, please let us know! We can arrange a pick up! Thank you all for reading this, caring and sharing!
"Someone damaging your property makes you feel awful, and it's unnerving when you realize you are not a random victim. It's horrifying when you know you are the target of someone who hates you so much that over the course of 4 nights you have all four tires slashed, as well as sugar put into your gas tank.
Then it registers that you have unwittingly been having your gas siphoned for over a month leading up to the damage. The proof was the gas cap being on the ground, and two days later the gas cap was thrown out into my lawn area. The gas door twisted backward for good measure. And my truck is on empty, again. It all made sense now. Then as if showing off, the culprit left the yellow tube to the plastic gas can on the ground right below my sugar-coated fuel filler pipe.
I live on Perkins Road, a quiet, semi-rural, dead-end where we can enjoy wildlife visitors in our back yard and watch ships go by. I moved in two years ago with my special needs daughter. I have had no run-ins with anyone, and have no idea who is doing this. And doing it with gusto. These are not little puncture holes, these are multiple big knife slashes in the sides of my tires. Somebody is raging. This is an expression of something much deeper and nastier than just messing with me. I have reported these incidents to the RCMP and made an ICBC claim. But I still have to come up with a deductible, assuming this will all be covered, replacement tires, and whatever has to be done with my gas tank. I will need a tow truck, and security work done around my home.
As a senior with a disability, I live on a fixed pension that is below the poverty line. I can make life work for us, creatively, with no extras, but these costs are going to be devastating and we will have to do without basic living requirements for several months. And the vandalism may not stop. It also may accelerate to endangering me and my daughter. I will admit it, we are frightened. Maybe if the vandal reads this, he can take some satisfaction that he has scared the hell out of us and his actions have caused extreme hardship to me and my daughter, financially and emotionally.
As someone who is having ongoing outpatient care for a serious condition, and someone who needs the use of a vehicle every day, you have really screwed me over. I am losing sleep. I am anxious all the time. I am physically ill from stress. My daughter is tearful. Whatever you think I have done to deserve this, well, you have shown me. I am a long-time resident of Campbell River and done a lot to help people in the last 30 years. I consider myself kind, generous, and worked hard to make sure disenfranchised people had better lives and were treated fairly. Nobody deserves this. I don't deserve this. Now, please stop."
Organizer
Karin Brendeland-Griffin
Organizer
Campbell River, BC
