I’m not sure i agree with many of the comments on this thread. The article states the neighbors have been feuding for a while, and it could well be that the parent of one family thought it might be funny (out of spite) to have his kid go over to the neighbor’s car and mark it up a bit. So what do you do if that happens to you? What do you do if a neighbor who doesn’t like you sends his kid over to mess up your vehicle?
To clarify, i’m not saying of course that the kid should be charged with anything. I don’t think that was the point. It was to hold the parents responsible for the actions of their child, which they very well may have encouraged. At the very least the parents should be made to pay for the damage done, i would think.
Like calex59 said in his/her post, you need to take the parents to court. I agree, it’s hard to tell just what was really going on there.