STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Marty and Rita Eisenberg returned to their Eltingville home from a trip to Europe to find a rectangular section of their fence knocked out and loose boards strewn throughout their yard.
In what’s become a frustrating situation on Staten Island, the Eisenbergs, who’ve lived at the residence in the vicinity of Lyndale Avenue and King Street for two years, are the latest victims of what could be considered another case of the Kool-Aid Man challenge.
“It was upsetting, because we don’t know who did it,” Marty Eisenberg said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to fix it and they won’t come back.”
It was only after a photo of the couple’s property appeared as part a story published by the Advance/SILive.com on the trend that Eisenberg became familiarized with the social media-based prank that’s inspired young people to hurl themselves into the backyards of residents across the borough…