Donald R. Martin said he wants the culprits castrated.

It all started about 5 p.m. Thursday when Martin was sitting inside his home at 5414 N. Huetter Road and heard what he thought were gunshots being fired in his wooded backyard.

Martin left his home to see exactly what was happening and saw two young men smashing the windows of his fleet of classic cars. It looked to him like they were using a metal rod.

He approached the men and said, "What are you doing?" according to an incident report released by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday.

The men bolted north on foot through his backyard into a heavily treed area and Martin lost sight of them.

He jumped into a vehicle and drove around to the back of his yard but couldn't find the men.

Martin wasn't able to provide authorities with a clothing description or other characteristics of the men, the report said.

A responding deputy determined that 26 of Martin's classic cars had windows broken out - some of them irreplaceable. On some of the cars, the culprits damaged all the windows. Many had tail lights and headlights smashed as well.

The deputy determined the windows had been broken with different objects.

"On one vehicle I located a metal tire iron penetrated through a passenger window," the deputy wrote in his report. "I also located what appeared to be a rear-end differential thrown through the windshield of another vehicle."

The vehicles ranged from a 1966 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to a 1937 Packard One-Twenty. A dozen of the vehicles are Cadillacs from the 1950s and early 1960s.

Martin said he had some of the vehicles for decades. One, a 1955 Ford Crestline, he bought brand new.

The deputy said the rough estimate to repair all of the windows is about $54,000.

Martin told the deputy he wanted to "castrate" the individuals responsible.

"Martin went on to tell me that he knew it was unlikely that the suspects would be caught and stated, 'It appeared they were just dumb kids.'"