rowdy and destructive, yet responsible.

I want to know how the windsheild became broken in the first place. Maybe some drunken spring breakers decided to smash it and then felt remoreseful afterwards? The world may never know. Somewheres there's a group of college kids snickering over this and lamenting the loss of their $200.

Vandal Leaves $200 to Fix Car Windshield

By The Associated Press Tue Mar 14, 10:35 PM ET

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - Whoever broke retiree Charlotte Papenbrock's windshield has made her believe that Spring Breakers can be rowdy, but also genteel.

Papenbrock, a "Winter Texan" from Blue Springs, Mo., was dismayed to find that the rear windshield of her 2004 Buick was busted. "Initially, I was upset," she said in Tuesday's online edition of the Island Breeze. "It was really smashed in. There was glass everywhere."

She called police to report the crime, but in the end didn't need uniformed help. The mysterious perpetrator, presumed to be a Spring Breaker, left $200 worth of 20-dollar bills on the car's back seat, along with a note reading "Here you go. I'm sorry."

Papenbrock used the money to repair the windshield. "Tell those kids I'm very proud and their mothers would be too," Papenbrock said.