Imagine what your mom’s reaction would be if your house was toilet papered. She’d probably be pretty upset. After all, that’s a huge mess that she (or more likely, you) will have to clean up. But one woman has the internet laughing due to her tongue-in-cheek reaction to the vandals that TP’d her home in California.
Aubrey Dupree Seymour lives in San Clemente.
She and her family woke up one morning early in June to find toilet paper all over their house and yard. It was even in the trees, some of it unreachable.
So, she took to the San Clemente Facebook page to make a post…of congratulations.
“To the kids that TP’d our house last night, I have a few choice words for you…AMAZING job, you have given me faith that there are still youths that choose to go ABOVE and BEYOND,” said Seymour. “One day I believe you will change the world with your DETERMINATION to be the best.”
Seymour says that her response is all about remembering what it was like to be young and reminding herself that it’s harmless fun, something of a rite of the teenage years.
If you think she doesn’t know who the culprits are, they were caught on the security cameras around Seymour’s home.
They’re friends of her son — and Seymour says that it’s now “game on.”
“Game on my friend, we too have a Costco size supply of TP,” she said. “They are wonderful boys who’ve known my son since elementary school, but don’t think we won’t be getting them back.”
The culprits used an impressive 72 rolls of toilet paper to cover her home and lawn.
Seymour had her kids clean it up, with a quip about “child labor.”
“It was all just good fun,” said Seymour. “I just feel like nowadays we’re so quick to condemn the kids. You gotta be able to laugh at life. To the four of you — we know who you are. We’re coming for you. Game on.”
People all over the internet are applauding Seymour’s good-natured reaction.
Her post in the San Clemente Facebook group quickly amassed more than 341,000 reactions and has been shared more than 125,000 times.
It’s a refreshing response to a silly prank that ultimately doesn’t harm anyone. But that’s not always the case. Back in 2013, a Tennessee teen was shot five times while toilet papering his principal’s house in anticipation of Halloween.
The 15-year-old recovered from his wounds and the neighbor who shot him, 65-year-old Dale Bryant Farris, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
Although toilet papering a home technically falls under the legal category of vandalism, the principal chose not to press charges against the teens — a good move, considering they had been sprayed with bullets for their prank.
Thankfully, Seymour had a drastically different reaction to the prank. But the boys had better watch out. They may find their own homes wearing white soon, too.
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