Mr. Ballin

You know, and if she didn't step in now, it was clear her son would just continue to push the limits further and further until he got hurt or got somebody else hurt or, you know, wound up in jail or something.

Like, this was the moment she had to put her foot down.

And so, without saying another word to her son or Jason, who were now back to banging on this metal box, she just turned and walked back into the kitchen where her other kids, Brandon and Candace, were now eating their breakfast and looking annoyed by all the chaos being caused by their older brother.

And she walked right past them, picked up the phone, and she called 911.

And when the dispatcher picked up her call, Bonnie said she wanted to report a theft.

and she gave the dispatcher her own address.

And then after she hung up, she told Candace and Brandon to go get their backpacks and go outside so they didn't miss the bus.

A few minutes later, Bonnie heard a knock on the front door and she opened it up to find two sheriff's deputies standing on the doorstep.

She actually recognized the deputies and she knew they also recognized her because this was not the first time they'd been called to the Sanborn house.

They'd been there several times actually recently to deal with domestic issues largely caused by her son.

But Bonnie knew, you know, Bradley, even though he was the obvious main problem, at least in terms of her current issues,

She was already seeing that her 13-year-old child, Candace, had begun acting out a lot lately.

And she was also worried what would happen when her 10-year-old, Brandon, became a teenager himself.

Like, would he begin following the footsteps of his brother and maybe his older sister as well?

She didn't know, but she just couldn't understand why her kids just were misbehaving so much.

Like, what did she do wrong?

And so Bonnie showed the deputies to Bradley's room, where he and Jason were still actively trying to pry open this payphone.

And when Bradley looked up and saw the police, he looked furious.

He screamed at his mother that he couldn't believe she'd called the cops on him.

But Bonnie, she did her best to push down the natural bit of guilt she was feeling because she didn't want to have to call the cops on her son.