A school vacation shenanigan is no laughing matter for the Franklin residents who found smashed eggs on (and in) their cars Wednesday night.
Elkins Street resident Becky Hazen left her house at 10:30 p.m. to work third shift at Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies when she noticed something wrong with her fiance’s truck.
At least four broken eggs dripped on the outside, and one was on the inside, too, near where a window was rolled down.
“I mean, seriously?” she said.
They weren’t the only ones. Neighbor Corey Nelson said he found his stepfather’s truck unlocked and egged, inside and outside, around 11 p.m. Wednesday.
“There was a bunch of eggs all over the driver’s side,” Nelson said.
Hazen said she saw eggshells along the entire road, clear to School Street. “They even went from this side of town to West Franklin.”
Social media posts about the egging spree showed cars hit on Victory Drive and at Franklin Falls Apartments on River Street. Brice Malloch, who lives in that apartment building, said he got home at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday night, but he didn’t see anything until Thursday morning.
He did mention that a surveillance camera was above where his car was parked, and that he planned to go over the camera footage with building manager Lynn Noyes.
“I guess two more residents got hit at my building (too),” he said.
Both Malloch and Nelson didn’t immediately report anything to Franklin police, but Hazen said she did stop by the department Wednesday night. On Thursday, however, Chief David Goldstein said he couldn’t find any official ‘egging’ reports.
In the meantime, Hazen’s fiance, Nelson’s stepdad and Malloch all paid a visit to the local carwash. While the egg came off easy for some, Malloch said some of the residue was still visible on his black car’s exterior.
“I think I’ll be able to take it out,” he said. “If I can’t then I think I’ll have to have it professionally repainted.”
All three expressed frustration online and in interviews Thursday. Hazen said she thought the egging was from teenagers on vacation from school, and that she wished Franklin’s curfew was still in place. She’s now looking into surveillance cameras for her property.
“It drives me crazy,” she said. “Something’s gotta be done.”
Nelson, a Franklin High School senior who has spent his vacation playing basketball, called the whole thing “ridiculous.”
“You can do other things with your lives other than egging people’s cars and damaging property,” he said.
(Elodie Reed can be reached at 369-3306, ereed@cmonitor.com or on Twitter @elodie_reed.)