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TWO-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. I-TEAM REPORTER BARRY SIMMS HAS THE MAN’S STOR FAIRY: NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THIS INCIDENT AND THIS IS AN AREA SOME SQUEEGEE KIDS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO WORK TO MAKE A FEW DOLLARS. THE MAN SAYS AS HE PASSE THROUGH HE GAVE A SIGNAL HE DID NOT WANT HIS WINDOWS WASHED AND ONE OF THE WINDOWS SHATTERED. THEY HAD TO REPLACE A SHATTERED CAR WINDOW. BEFORE RETURNING HOME. THE OWNER OF THIS SUV ASKED US TO REFER TO HIM ONLY BY HIS FIRST NAME STEVE. HE CLAIMS A TEENAGE SQUEEGEE KID TAPPED THE LEFT PASSENGER WINDOW AND BROKE IT >> I HEARD THE BANG AND THERE WAS A RED LIGHT SO WE WERE HARD MOVING AND THEN STARTED MOVING AGAIN. BARRY HE SAYS THE GLASS FELL ON : HIS TWO-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WHO WAS SLEEPING IN HER CAR SEAT. >> MY WIFE WAS SCREAMING, TERRIFIED, GLASS ALL OVER AND CHARGE OLIVER AND ALL AROUND H . LUCKILY, SHE WAS SLEEPING SO SHE DID NOT SEE THE INCIDENT OCCUR. BARRY THE FAMILY CANCELED THEIR : PLANNED ADVENTURE, A TOUR ON THE URBAN PIRATES SHIP. STEVE SAYS AFTER THE WINDOW SHATTERED ON PRESIDENT AT LOMBARD STREETS, HE DROVE THREE BLOCKS AWA >> I WAS NOT SURE HOW TO RESPOND BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO ESCALATE THE ISSUE FURTHER. IF I WOULD HAVE REACTED I DON’T KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. BARRY: HE SAYS HE CALLED POLICE SEVERAL TIMES, WAITED ABOUT 45 MINUTES, THEN DROVE TO CENTRAL DISTRICT WHERE AN OFFICER MET HIM. HE SAYS HE WAS SURPRISED BY THE RESPONSE HE RECEIVED FROM OTHER OFFICERS WHO CLAIMED WHAT HAPPENED WAS NORMA >> OTHER COPS WERE PASSING BY AN SAID, THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME AND ONE OFFICER PASSED BY AND SAID DO ME A FAVOR, LET THE MAYOR KNOW ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS. TERRY IN RESPONSE TO THE : INCIDENT MAYOR JACK YOUNG SAYS -- >> I THINK THE POLICE NEED TO DO THEIR JOB. BARRY CITY POLICE SAY THEY ARE : INVESTIGATING THE ALLEGED CRIMINAL ACT. A SPOKESMAN FOR MAYOR YOUNG SAYS THE MAYOR’S OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SUCCESS IS FOCUSED ON WORKING WITH SQUEEGEE KIDS, THE HOMELESS, AND PANHANDLERS, AND IS TRYING TO TAKE YOUNG AND GET THEM TO WORK IN A MORE PRODUCTIVE WAY. REPORTING LIVE FROM DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE, BARRY SIMMS, WBAL TV 11

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A New Jersey man contacted the 11 News I-Team after a scary incident during a trip to Baltimore.Steve, who asked only to be identified by his first name, said his family reached President and Lombard streets in downtown Baltimore, where a squeegee kid, upset the family wouldn't pay him, broke a car window, sending pieces of glass all over his 2-year-old daughter.Squeegee kids have been known to work around that intersection to make a few dollars.Steve said as he passed through the signal, he didn't want his windows washed. Seconds later, a teenage squeegee kid tapped the left passenger window, shattering it."It was a red light. We weren't moving. Once it turned green, we started moving. That's when the window came in," Steve told the I-Team on Friday.He said the glass fell on his 2-year-old daughter, who was sleeping in her car seat."My wife was screaming, terrified, glass all over her. Luckily, she was sleeping and didn't see the incident occur," Steve said. "I'm really glad no one was hurt, that's the main thing."The family canceled their planned adventure, a tour on the Urban Pirates ship. Steve said after the teen broke the window, he drove three blocks away."I wasn't sure how to respond. I didn't want to escalate the situation further. If I would react, I didn't know what was going to happen," Steve said.He said he called police several times, waited about 45 minutes, then drove to the Central District police station, where an officer met him. He said he was surprised by the response he received from other officers, who claimed what happened was "normal.""Other cops were passing by and said, 'This happens all the time.' And one officer passed by and said, 'Please, do me a favor, and let the mayor know about it because we don't know what to do about it,'" Steve said.In response to the incident, Mayor Jack Young said, "I really think the police need to do their job."City police said they are investigating the alleged criminal act.A spokesman for Young said the Mayor's Office of Children and Family Success is focused on working with squeegee kids, the homeless and panhandlers and is trying to take young people off the street and offer them a more productive way to make money.