CITYWIDE VANDALISM REPORTED IN PALMDALE.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. -- Teenagers broke car and house windows, smashed vehicle headlights and spray-painted graffiti graffiti Form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Technically the term applies to designs scratched through a layer of paint or plaster, but its meaning has been extended to other markings. in Halloween-night vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and , deputies said. Reports of vandalism came in Tuesday night from all around the city, said Deputy Daryl Bonsall at the Palmdale sheriff's station. One report was that a group of five or six boys and one girl used a baseball bat to smash headlights on cars at homes where they weren't given any candy candy: see confectionery. candy Sweet sugar- or chocolate-based confection. The Egyptians made candy from honey (combined with figs, dates, nuts, and spices), sugar being unknown. in the neighborhood near 53rd Street East and Avenue R-4, he said. The teens were gone when deputies arrived, Bonsall said. Lancaster sheriff's station officials said they had no reports of Halloween trouble. |
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