Feb 2, 2007 6:56 pm US/Eastern
'Fence Plowing' Is Latest Teen Craze
Teens Diving Head First Into Long Island Fence Caught On Video
by Hazel Sanchez
DEER PARK, N.Y. (CBS) ―
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Fence plowing is an apparently new extreme sport, but is also destroying private property.
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Whatever happened to old-fashioned egg tossing or mailbox bashing? Turns out teens in Long Island have come up with a new way to vandalize their neighbors, and it can be pretty painful for both the vandals and those vandalized.
It's called "fence plowing" or "fence popping" and it's the latest craze for teens looking for a laugh at someone else's expense. Simply put, the "fence plower" barrels head-first through someone's wooden fence for the sake of knocking it over or breaking through it.
Deer Park resident Todd Kesselman has spent nearly $1,000 fixing his fence that he says teenagers have plowed through five times. "They start out across the street and run and they just run right through the fence and then keep going," he told CBS 2.
But Kesselman is not just a victim, he's a security expert who got fed up and installed cameras, catching the vandals on tape. "I'm realizing now it's more important to see what's going on on the outside of the house than the inside," he said.
That tape helped Suffolk County police arrest five teens, all of whom are current or former students at Deer Park High School. Students there say the act is funny, but not exactly a bright idea.
"I think it's stupid. I mean there's better things to do than run through expensive fences," Deer Park senior Dominic Albanese said.
Like the North Babylon schoolyard brawl that saw several girls fighting viciously on a video captured on a cell phone, the fence plowing videos were posted on the Internet, which is rapidly becoming a world stage for teenage pranks.
"Kids now have another outlet to post their activities and show off to their peers," Suffolk County Police Lieutenant Robert Edwards said.
Unfortunately for the teens who post the videos however, the video prank becomes video evidence for police when the jokes go too far.
Police say at least 10 other fence plowing incidents in the area are under investigation.
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