They knocked on the door just to see if anyone was home. The plan was to rob the house.
The fountain was just an after thought.
These are those fountains you see at Lowes and HD. You fill them with a garden hose and a little pump circulates the water. The retail my be a couple of hundred, but the street value would be much less.
$20 to maybe $50, if you could get anyone to buy it at all. These guys sold their freedom and almost killed a guy over a few dollars. Something tells me they are going to be put away for life this time.
They are way too stupid and dangerous to live in society with the rest of us.
Hoses. Circulating water. The idiots probably thought they had the hardware for a meth lab.