Stolen Christmas Yard Decorations

Stealing Decorations from neighbours at Christmas is bad,but during the week I was reading an article where a family were concerned about items going missing from their Child's GRAVE,and had placed a hidden camera nearby to catch the thief,and apparently had photos of a Woman taking items..it was a name and shame exercise,and I hope She's identified...

Wow! How rude of them! Their spirit of Christmas is obviously inspired by the Grinch lol. I didn't watch the video, but I did read the article at the link you provided. I've never had anybody steal Christmas decorations from outside, but I did have my longhorn steer skull stolen from an old-west style garden decoration. And once I had my large inflatable raft tied to a tree by the pond, and a wind came up untied the knot and it blew into the street. I looked out the window just in time to see some people stuffing it into their station wagon and speeding off. That was a sad fall for the neighbor kids, I'd give them a raft ride on our pond every evening:-)

my mom has had light s stolen (they screwed them right off! other than that, nothing really/ although i dont have a lot of lights out, i do have a vintage sleigh that i really wouldnt want to lose, so i have it firmly attached to the front of the house.

That was just awful! Awful for them to do such a thing! And yes it happened to my mom several years ago but some one stole her Pumpkin at Halloween! And to this day I still here my mom saying I will never get a Pumpkin again! he he he L.O.L. Funny but not!!

I haven't had that experience so far. At least not the decorations, but a steel rack where we use to hang and dry up our clothes was stolen. We never seen it anymore. That was so rude of the neighbor. I remember a news about someone stealing a Santa inflatable last week. But it was given back to the owner and it has an apology letter with money inside. That one was funny.

They must be very stupid to put on display something they stole. Not to imagine that it was so close to the other house. I never had an experience like this because we have a gate, and we have plenty of dogs. even visitors are sometimes afraid to enter because of our dogs.

I don't know why people would want to steal holiday decorations, someone is going to recognize those decorations and say something about it. What would be the point in stealing decorations when someone can just call you out for taking them from the person that you stole them from? No one has ever stolen Christmas Decor from my yard because I don't have much of it, and it wouldn't be worth it because I know my decorations. I have ways of telling what my decorations look like.

I think its sad that people would even consider taking Christmas decorations. What were they thinking to ruin somebodies enjoyment. This is the first year I have put up decorations in my yard.

That is really pathetic. Kind of anti-Christmas all together. But you know what really burns me? My grandmother decorated my late grandpa's grave for Memorial Day, and someone stole the decorations. Then she made a special one for Christmas last year, and someone stole it too. Who does that? A woman at the grave site told my grandma she saw a white van driving around one day throughout the cemetery. She thinks a local shop is stealing them and then selling them again. So far no one has stolen the one she put up for Christmas this year, but it's pathetic. That's horrible.

Yes unfortuately....a friend of mine had his stolen. I wire mine to my steps so if they wanted to steal them they would have to have a wire cutters! LOL

My husband and I had a pretty strange experience this year. One day we noticed that someone had thrown some christmas lights and other kinds of christmas decorations in our driveway and a few days later we read in the newspaper that christmas lights and other decorations had been stolen from a garden in the neighbourhood. The description sounded just like the things that had been thrown in our driveway and we called the woman and told her than we might have her decorations. Ten minutes later we went to front yard, because we wanted to pick up the decorations and put them inside the house so that the woman could pick them up, but they were gone!! It looks like they have been stolen one more time, but unfortuneately we went inside the house to call and we didn't see what happened.

A few years ago, that happened to us. And really, the culprit was never in fact caught. They stole a couple of deer, and some Christmas lights. That was the last year where decorations were put outside. I couldn't prove that it was teenagers, but it was likely teenagers. There seemed to be a few cases and one teenager got caught, although if they had anything to do with the theft, who really is to know. It is a really sad state when people have to resort to theft. Then again, there are just going to be people who are going to be thieves for no real reason. There are just going to be a lot of times where they have no use for what they are stealing. It is just for the thrill. It is sad but ultimately and totally true. Just makes you think twice about putting anything in your yard.

My parents did have that happen to them one year. And again it was only a few blocks away! My dad knocked on their door and told them they wanted their items back. The parents said it was their kids that took them.

Geez, you'd think those women would have the sense to, I don't know, steal decorations from further away so they owners wouldn't be able to track them so close by ... ah well, serves them right. I never decorate my yard during the holidays sans maybe some porch lights to make the place appear a bit more festive, and I don't think people are desperate enough to steal a relatively cheap set of lights. Actually, wait - I had a pinata hanging from a tree in my yard one year for some reason or other outside of any celebration, and someone stole it when I wasn't looking. No big loss since it was free, but man, a pinata?