A string of incidents leaving downtown Frederick business windows damaged has city police looking for witnesses.
Between the early morning of Dec. 15 through Dec. 20, police have taken about a dozen reports of damage to windows caused by projectiles that are not bullets from firearms, according to a release Monday from the Frederick Police Department.
Joan Berkowitz, who with her husband owns Great Stuff by Paul on 6th Street and a vacant location on North Carroll Street, said the Carroll Street store was damaged on Dec.15 and the 6th Street store was damaged Saturday evening. On Sunday, they found two more holes in a window at the Carroll Street location, Berkowitz said.
Berkowitz said she's also heard about several other businesses, including a laundromat on North Market Street, that also had damage.
Mike Tauraso, the owner of Black Hog BBQ on South Market Street, said he'll have to replace one of the store's windows. While he hadn't gotten an estimate Monday, he expected the repairs to cost about $1,500.
With Christmas on Friday, the damage comes at a critical shopping time for downtown businesses, Berkowitz said.
Kara Norman, executive director of the Downtown Frederick Partnership, said it's an important time of year for downtown businesses, but there's never a good time to have vandalism.
“We don't want vandalism any time. And certainly not now,” Norman said.
Frederick police are asking anyone who may have witnessed any of the damage or have further information about the people responsible to contact Officer Douglas Kemp at 240-549-4782 or dkemp@frederickmdpolice.org.
Tips can also be left anonymously on the department's tips line at 301-600-8477, emailed to fpdcrimetip@frederickmdpolice.org, or sent via text to 240-674-8477.
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A couple people on this forum with no one to do Christmas with so sad.
But that’s no justification for the FNP to allow them to troll us and harass us.
FNP - please ban CD Reid. And please stop deleting my requests. And thanks!
Ummm, Plumbum, ever wonder why the FNP pays you no attention other than to delete your repetitive requests? C'mon hon, think about it...
Come on, man. Lead is just another "one horse pony" like Quid Pro Joe called a reporter yesterday who was trying to get the Big Guy to answer a question about Hunter and the Beijing money laundering operation.
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What a hypocrite! Please FNP staff, Ban the Plumbum!
"It’s obvious cd doesn’t get any you know what anymore from anyone" Plumbun?????
On a more constructive note, how about working out what caused the damage? Is the hole symmetrical (impact from a spherical object like a BB from a slingshot) or jagged (rock in a snowball)? What is the relative depth of the hole as one can work backwards to the speed of impact and potential hardness of the object? Is the angle of the impact crater such that the point of release is the sidewalk or a passing car? Any footprints in the snowbanks?
And if you were wondering, we had a lab on impact craters back in my High School Physics class. We shot BBs into sand at different speeds and angles and had to predict the size, minor and major axis of the resultant crater.
It's like crop circles. No ones knows how or why they got there.
We were told it's kids in cars driving by shooting marbles with slingshots.
Ah, my junior year High School physics lab comes thru. Low velocity, spherical objects.
So, no to cameras downtown and yes to cameras checking for masks. Got it.
As for the FNP, it would be instructive to describe the type of damage. Holes, cracks, scrapes? A pellet from a slingshot would create a hole, but without the high impact of a bullet. And random stores up and down Market or more specific ones?
No problem with downtown cameras monitoring public spaces Tom. We have no expectation of privacy while out in public, so no civil liberties violated. In this instance, a camera lens is the same as an eyeball. It also helps with the "I didn't see nuthin'" syndrome. If people won't see what happened, cameras sure will, and remember it. The video is looped over after a given time if there is nothing to report.
BTW, I remember that physics lab well, even the follow up question of "a lead projectile (of a given mass) is fired at a concrete wall and melts. What was the initial velocity?"
We used sand or wax. If we fired the BB at something solid, it would rebound and shoot your eye out, kid.
Same here. They didn't trust us (a bunch of high school seniors) with the real deal. A group of Sheldon Coopers we were not. These were paper follow-up questions after the sand/wax or pendulum exercises that, if you knew the mass of the projectile, and its melting point, you could calculate the amount of energy necessary to melt it, and from there, its velocity (which went from X m/s to zero instantaneously).
The movie Minority Report had those public cameras doing face recognition and retinal scans. Both to send you ads as you walked thru the public space and to keep track of every citizen.
But at the least, we are nominally on topic as opposed to the slugfest going on elsewhere. I am thinking snowballs that had some rock or other solid item in them. Really need to see the holes to determine what projectile was used.
No problem just some misguided citizens out venting off some steam, right? Whats the big deal? We were told these businesses have insurance by the mob when months after Floyd’s death they were still protesting and doing this same stuff.
As long as it was peaceful projectile throwing, it can be excused. It'll be interesting to see the mug shots of the perp(s) when they are caught.
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Another liberal spouting off at the mouth (as is your right) judging others without any proof of anything. We all know liberal mobs never cause any damage with their "peaceful" protests!! Minneapolis anyone?? Nice work Matty!! Just when I thought my expectations of liberals couldn't go lower.
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Here's a new low, jloo. BLM protestors marched through Candy Cane Lane, a neighborhood display that raises money to fight childhood cancer. Way to endear the cause to America.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2020/12/19/black-lives-matter-supporters-marched-candy-cane-lane-friday-night/3972673001/
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How about the conservatives killing people by running them over at protests. Forgetful or ignorant. You’re one or both.
The usual what about from Doctor Fed Up GregF the miserable Troll King who has yet to find anything that he likes - other than to sling hate at every opportunity.
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The shootings were in protest? Of what?... BBQ 🤷♂️?
What an inane comment, Pdl
my my, cd; are we especially angry today?
That's precious coming from the Troll King on FNP who never has anything nice to say about anyone.
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As a matter of fact, wheelone, No, I am not in the least bit angry. I'm merely giving back to Greg F what he gives to others, in this case, pdl. Question; why don't you ever ask Greg why he's always so angry, wouldn't you say it's obvious from his constant attacks?
You must watch a lot of Fox News to be so knowledgeable about their programmt Doctor Fed Up GregF. They must appreciate the ratings boost you give them.
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Street cameras would be useful downtown. If you aren't doing anything illegal, you shouldn't mind having your picture taken.
Sure, why not erode our civil liberties even further. Your comment is timed well because the illegitimate crew soon to be taking over power will trample all over our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Um....this isn’t China or Soviet Union or UK. Cameras are a serious threat. Go read Fahrenheit 451. Big brother is not our friend and once there, all manner of abuses of them will occur.
1984 as well as a host of other novels and movies. Minority Report is rather chilling in its' depiction of total invasion of privacy and the citizens acceptance of it 'for the greater good'
Like the Big Brother proposal Andrew Yang put forth? Bar code tattoos for everyone so the government can track who has and who has not had the vaccine.
Where do the lefty liberal Socialist Democrats find these people?
Got your tattoo yet, Doctor Fed Up GregF? I'm sure you won't mind.
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Doctor Fed Up GregF sez "You want everything free without income to pay for it...."
Geeze, now you sound like you are accusing CD of being a Socialist Democrat. That's a low blow.
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Doctor Fed Up GregF sez to CD......"You want everything free without income to pay for it"
Doctor Fed Up GregF,, you just accused CD of being a socialist. Are you self prescribing your meds again? You may want to dial it back a bit since you are more delusional than ever.
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I AM NOT A SOCIALIST!!! ([lol][lol][lol])
That’s what Fox wants you to think. You want everything free without income to pay for it or anyone to oversee things. Except the corrupt CEOs.
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