Man’s father offers to pay for slashed tires

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

The father of an Ohio man accused of slashing tires on at least five vehicles has left notes for the owners offering to pay for the vandalism.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the tires were slashed Tuesday night at a Columbus apartment complex. Handwritten notes left on windshields explained that the son had been suffering depression and drank alcohol on top of medication before damaging the vehicles.

The father tells the newspaper his 23-year-old son is a college graduate with a good job. He says, “People have been extraordinarily kind. I think it has touched people’s lives.”

Ohio State University graduate student Jamie Jackel says her car had two slashed tires along with a note. She says the experience has convinced her that the world isn’t such a bad place.