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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: Zep on December 21, 2006, 10:05:53 am
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I know this isn't about hot tubs,
and may get moved but I just
wanted to tell you guys.....
Well the scum-bags struck.......again.
I place a life size Christmas nativity scene
in my front yard every Christmas season.
About 5 years ago at a different house
vandals drove through my yard and ran over
my entire Christmas nativity scene and badly
damaged it.
I have all the large figures cabled down
locked securely and the smaller ones cabled
but not quite as secure.
Last night some hoodlums ripped out
and stole the baby Jesus from the manger.
Luckily no other damage, just stole Jesus.
They will not "win"...next year the manger
scene will appear either from my roof or
from inside my house.....
Of course maybe now that they have
baby Jesus...maybe he will eventually
come into their hearts and they will
grow up and realize what they are doing.
Here is a picture from this year
before the baby Jesus was stolen.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/Holidays/Xmas2006-1.jpg)
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A few years back, kids (I guess) drove through my sister's yard and took out the holiday decorations. Since then, they added some pretty shiny packages around the Santa Train. The brightly wrapped packages were filled with CMU blocks. They have not been tested.
txwillie
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That's terrible, Zep. :(
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A few years back, kids (I guess) drove through my sister's yard and took out the holiday decorations. Since then, they added some pretty shiny packages around the Santa Train. The brightly wrapped packages were filled with CMU blocks. They have not been tested.
txwillie
For us Dummies CMU Blocks = Cinder blocks. (I had to look it up.)
I like it. ;)
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AKA concrete masonry units
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Zep, thanks for sharing that. Probably kids doing it but IMO the most intolerance in our society comes from those who claim to be the most tolerant. Their favorite target - Christianity or anything having to do with Christ or Christmas. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me. Maybe you should display a Buddha or Mohammed - nothing would probably be taken or destroyed!
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Concrete blocks sound like a good plan. Might be fun to put in some of those things that blow out the tires or perhaps a nice concrete post sunk into the ground disguised as a palm tree. Would serve em right!
Don't know about theft though. I suppose a surveillance camera might help. Or maybe you could put trip wires on the figures connected to a mace or tear gas dispenser and an alarm siren. Or at least some kind of permanent dye so you could ID the a$$holes involved. Of course dye could damage your own figures.
Yes, mace or tear gas is much better!
I suppose high voltage electricity would be out of the question although that could be kinda entertaining...
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You should set up a video camera with motion detection. I'm sure your local police would be very interested in using a video to help prosectute these punks.
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You should set up a video camera with motion detection. I'm sure your local police would be very interested in using a video to help prosectute these punks.
I was watching the Today Show a couple of days ago and they were talking to a homeowner who did just that. He had problems with his XMas decorations getting vandalized and put in a small video camara.
Turned out to be a neighbor and they ended up arresting the guy! Pretty pathetic video....big fat guy destroying a blow up snowman with a bat. Now THAT'S a scumbag!
Marc
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That's really low of them. >:( What kind of person(s) would do such a thing?
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that sucks....people are the reason I don't enjoy going out anymore. I'm pretty middle of the road as far as letting things that annoy me slide...if you saw how decorated my neighbor's house is for EVERY Hallmark holiday, you'd know what I mean.... ::)
Well, hopefully now that someone's "found Jesus", they'll be able to start making GOOD decisions.....If I had a spare, I'd send you one. ;)
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That's really low of them. >:( What kind of person(s) would do such a thing?
Vandals. They're everywhere.
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How bout digging a false front/moat around the perimeter of your decorations? Fill it with whatever you want/grin ;)
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re: "Fill it with whatever you want"
(http://media.wagt.com/images/alligator_nim.jpg)
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We did a live nativity scene -
So far nobody has reported in as stolen...
(http://www.venturafirst.com/images/Staff1.jpg)
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Cut and past from the Columbus Dispatch today:
Reynoldsburg police have received five reports of vandalism or theft of Christmas decorations since November, including one stabbed, inflatable Santa that was salvaged with duct tape. Gahanna police arrested two kids over the weekend for knifing another blow-up Kris Kringle.
Not on my watch baby!!
They had a bag of weed and were killing time killing Chrismas displays.
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It was probably a group a christian fanatics. You see, you had the baby Jesus in the manger BEFORE his birthday, so, to teach you a lesson, they stole the baby Jesus only to return him on Christmas day. ::) Think about it, how can the baby Jesus already be here, if he wasn't born yet. :)
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Maybe you should display a ... Mohammed - nothing would probably be taken or destroyed!
Mohammed showed up in a Danish newspaper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy) and people were killed over it, so I don't recommend putting one on your front lawn.
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We did a live nativity scene -
So far nobody has reported in as stolen...
Is the one with the bugle single? ;)
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Cut and past from the Columbus Dispatch today:
Reynoldsburg police have received five reports of vandalism or theft of Christmas decorations since November, including one stabbed, inflatable Santa that was salvaged with duct tape. Gahanna police arrested two kids over the weekend for knifing another blow-up Kris Kringle.
Not on my watch baby!!
They had a bag of weed and were killing time killing Chrismas displays.
Ahhh- Rocket scientists.
Thankfully this type of crap isn't as common this year as around here as it was last year. Possibly due to several highly publicized self defense incidents, where in about a 2 week span of time several scumbags found themselves either dead or seriously wounded by homeowners who don't like creeps breaking into their homes.
In all cases the ruling was justified use of force. Thankfully.
Maybe these news stories are keeping the slime under the rocks where they belong for a least a little while.
One can only hope.......
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I think I'd feel really safe and not have to worry about these type of scumbags if I lived next door to Terminator. ;D ;D ;D
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re: think I'd feel really safe and not have to worry about
these type of scumbags if I lived next door to Terminator
Is this one of Terminator's elderly relatives?
(http://img328.imageshack.us/img328/4036/machinegungranny5yo.jpg)
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If it's after dark in Texas and they set foot on your property, shoot them. You can, legally.
When the sun goes down in my hood, all the good little children scamper home. The rest take their chances.
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/EastTexasSpa/oldtimerterm.jpg)
Terminator
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:)Not to be too technical......but the Baby Jesus should not be in the manager until Christmas day.
Maybe there was a real right wing christian that took the baby....and will return it on Chrismas day!
God Bless :)
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Concrete blocks sound like a good plan. Might be fun to put in some of those things that blow out the tires or perhaps a nice concrete post sunk into the ground disguised as a palm tree. Would serve em right!
Don't know about theft though. I suppose a surveillance camera might help. Or maybe you could put trip wires on the figures connected to a mace or tear gas dispenser and an alarm siren. Or at least some kind of permanent dye so you could ID the a$$holes involved. Of course dye could damage your own figures.
Yes, mace or tear gas is much better!
I suppose high voltage electricity would be out of the question although that could be kinda entertaining...
I like the way you think, especially the electricity part! SIZZLE-SIZZLE !!!
Here in Alabama, a law was just passed that if someone threatens you or your property you can shoot them as long as they are ON your property. Use to...you had to drag them into the house if you shot them, now you don't have to hurt your back, you can leave them where they lay! ;D ;D
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Is the one with the bugle single? ;)
She has a boyfriend.
And two degrees, speaks a couple of languages fluently, and wants to be a doctor!
8-)
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There was one more chapter to this story......
On New Year's Eve the vandals returned
the stolen "Baby Jesus" disfigured/destroyed.
Not sure if they felt bad about stealing it and
returned it or if they brought it back destroyed
after Christmas was over just to "F" with me.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/NewYearsEve06/Dec06Jan07251113.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/ItsZep/NewYearsEve06/Dec06Jan07251112.jpg)
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On the bright side, it appears he is now eligible for government disability assistance.
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:)Not to be too technical......but the Baby Jesus should not be in the manager until Christmas day.
Maybe there was a real right wing christian that took the baby....and will return it on Chrismas day!
God Bless :)
That being Dec 25th, right? ::)
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You have no idea how much that pi$$es me off. >:( Ok you probably do since it happened to you but you're not alone. I would have it checked for prints and see if any of them are a match in your local PD's system.
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Someone's going to get smote.
Terminator
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re: get smote.
Term SPEAK ENGLISH!????
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
smite
PRONUNCIATION: smt
VERB: Inflected forms: smote ( smt), smit·ten ( smtn) or smote, smit·ing, smites
TRANSITIVE VERB: 1a. To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon. b. To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else. 2. To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows. 3a. To afflict: The population was smitten by the plague. b. To afflict retributively; chasten or chastise. 4. To affect sharply with great feeling: He was smitten by deep remorse.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To deal a blow with or as if with the hand or a hand-held weapon.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English smiten, from Old English smtan, to smear.
OTHER FORMS: smiter —NOU
"The Lord hath surely smote their behinds."
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You have no idea how much that pi$$es me off. >:( Ok you probably do since it happened to you but you're not alone. I would have it checked for prints and see if any of them are a match in your local PD's system.
A damaged plastic replica of the Christ child would only get fumed for prints if it was used to bludgeon someone to death.
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A damaged plastic replica of the Christ child would only get fumed for prints if it was used to bludgeon someone to death.
Maybe throw some ketchup on it. ;) :)