THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, August 31, 1994             TAG: 9408310491
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY PATRICIA HUANG, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Medium:   53 lines

VANDALS LEAVE THEIR MARKS ON HOMES IN BAYVIEW IN ADDITION TO THE HOUSES, THREE CARS, A TRUCK AND A BOAT WERE VANDALIZED IN NORFOLK.

Ann Copeland had taken no stand on how an American teenager was punished in Singapore recently for spray painting cars.

Now she would gladly wield the cane on someone who vandalized her daughter's car and house.

Copeland's daughter, Myron Copeland, and about 14 other residents of the Bayview neighborhood awoke Tuesday to find ugly graffiti on their houses, fences and cars.

Standing in the neatly manicured yard of her daughter's home in the 1600 block of Broadfield Road, Ann Copeland winced at the obscenities, squiggled lines and ``X''s that covered the front of her daughter's house and her 1994 turquoise Ford hatchback.

``It just blows me away. I just can't imagine such meanness and ugliness,'' Copeland said. ``I could cane whoever did this.''

Rick Schoof of the 9400 block of Willow Court estimated the spray paint cost him more than $700 in damage. ``I had the Harley-Davidson insignia on the back window of my van, and they even painted all over that,'' Schoof said as he touched up his garage door.

Schoof glanced over at words painted in big, black letters that were being power washed off his new picket fence. ``Oh, I'm madder than hell,'' he said. ``You know, I mean, I work hard. . . we just put up that fence.''

In addition to the houses, three cars, a truck and a boat were vandalized. Police said they had no leads or damage estimate.

A 49-year resident of the neighborhood asked that her name not be used. But she and a friend said they could not remember obscenities ever being scrawled on property in Bayview.

``I have always felt that we lived in kind of a sheltered area, but now it's coming in on us,'' her friend said. ``We used to visit each other and walk around at night and not even lock our doors. . . But I think it's going to get worse now because kids these days don't have respect. They don't respect even their parents. They have rights now, don't you know?'' ILLUSTRATION: Photo by L. TODD SPENCER

Eric Markowski was hired to power wash a fence Tuesday on Alfred

Lane in the Bayview section of Norfolk. Vandals spray painted the

neighborhood Monday night.

KEYWORDS: VANDALISM by CNB