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He Said, He Said. Vandalism at the Safehouse

Reporter: Stefanie Silvey

Web Producer: Kerry Corum

Evansville's Safehouse is damaged by water from a broken pipe.

How did all this happen in the first place, and who's to blame?

The two inmates charged in the incident, tell two different stories.

Chris Fischer says, "I started telling them, man this place is haunted, so I'm starting this off as a joke."

Chris admits to rattling the pipes and says, "No sooner than they turned around, I'd put my foot back up there and start shaking it again, and I'd be like well, and they'd turn around again real quick and be like 'whoa', and then they started believing me because the pipe was all of a sudden moving and nobody could figure out why it was moving."

But he says the damage didn't come from him. He says, "Old boy, he uh, decided he was going to jump up and smack the pipe, so he jumped up and smacked it. Well, evidently he wasn't content with that. It shook for a second and he stopped and then it stopped so he jumped up and grabbed it with both hands, and he started swinging from it, and when he swung from it, the pipe broke."

Jeffrey Young tells a different story, "The boy, man, he need to tell, when we go to court or whatever, he need to tell them that he did it, because I don't mean to be taking no blame for something I didn't do. "

Jeffrey says he was trying to help. He explains, "I climbed up on my box and tried to put my shirt around it and about that time it explode, and it put a hole in the wall like way big, and I like jumped back and when I did, it started flooding everywheres."

But Fischer says, "He's trying to act like a hero or whatever, and make everything look and sound good. I ain't trying to sound like a hero, I'm just telling the truth on what happened."

Both quick to point the finger at one another, and take none of the blame.

Both of them are in jail, charged with felony criminal mischief.