Yep. Went to court in a nice suit with a nice haricut, wearing my hospital ID for good measure. Told the whole story and the when I got to the Cinderella part... they were cooked.
The cops testified too.
They claimed that they went in my yard after a football. No football was found. Just a shoe, from someone fleeing by trying to go through, then over a stockade fence.
Never saw them again. Got paid for a new fence too.