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Mother goes after toilet-papering teens

(8/01/06 - NORCO, CA) - The teenagers who toilet-papered Katja Base's home may now be regretting it.
Base, a mother of six, was unwilling to let the teens get away with it, saying she began trying to track them down to teach her kids about accountability.

Base awoke one February morning to find her front lawn strewn with toilet paper, damaged landscaping, broken light fixtures and ruined finishes on two cars. Dog food and flour covered the lawn.

Realizing the sheriff's department has better things to do than track down teen pranksters, Base decided to do some detective work.

Base persuaded supermarket managers to tally daily toilet-paper buys for the week and discovered there was a run on bathroom tissue two days before her home was vandalized.

At 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17, someone bought 144 rolls of toilet paper, cheese, dog food, flour and plastic forks -- the same items found on her lawn and house. It was a cash transaction, making it difficult to trace the purchaser, but the store had video surveillance.

The video showed four teens making the purchase, one of them wearing a Norco High School letterman's jacket with a name stitched across the back. Base then borrowed a Norco High yearbook and went online to get the name and addresses of the teens on the tape.

Six youths are now facing vandalism charges.

"Her work was instrumental in helping us to identify the suspects," said Lt. Ross Cooper of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)