She screams, smashes furniture, then tears away in the family's Chevrolet station wagon.

On the log there was ample evidence of her rampage: overturned furniture, ruined artwork, smashed glass--her tidy quarters had become a disaster area.

On 21 September 2008, Vadivelu's residence in the Saligramam neighbourhood in Chennai was pelted with stones by a gang, leaving several windows and furniture smashed and damaged.

In sixty houses, she found that doors had been torn from their hinges, mirrors smashed, cupboards emptied, furniture smashed to pieces, bedding and clothing soaked in olive oil.

No sign of Croll, but his rooms had been broken into and all the furniture systematically ripped and smashed.

Apartments above and in neighboring buildings were partly destroyed, their furniture smashed and windows blown out.

Along with many clergy with Episcopalian sympathies Duncan was rabbled from his parish in 1688, struck and abused, his furniture smashed, and he and his family thrust out of doors.

They discovered furniture smashed, and graffiti scrawled across the walls.

In the monastery itself, however, the doors were broken in, the furniture smashed, the library and the dispensary wrecked.

Actually, the noise indicated the furniture was being smashed, as in swung quickly and forcefully until an immovable object was encountered . . . like a head, for example.