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Title: Real-life Grinch: Man caught on camera stealing Christmas lights
Source: WISH-TV8 / WAVY
URL Source: http://wishtv.com/2015/12/06/real-l ... era-stealing-christmas-lights/
Published: Dec 6, 2015
Author: Jason Marks
Post Date: 2015-12-06 20:24:24 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 124
Comments: 13

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – A real life Grinch made his presence known in Portsmouth over the weekend. The suspect stole Christmas lights from a home, but what he didn’t know was that it was all caught on camera.

“It just makes you angry,” said victim Jason Ward. “You feel violated.”

Over the weekend Ward began putting out his lights at his home on Greeneland Boulevard. “It makes the neighborhood look better when everybody is decorating,” he said.

But when he went bed, under the cover of darkness, the suspect showed up at his doorstep.

“The guy walked up my sidewalk, cut across the yard, bent down and grabbed a light,” Ward said. “He unplugged it and walked off like he was supposed to be there.”

The suspect didn’t know it was all caught on camera. Ward installed the cameras a couple of months ago not knowing he’d need them so quickly.

“It just helps to see who did it so you’re not just wondering,” Ward said.

He has a face, but not a name. Ward says what he stole wasn’t very expensive, but that’s not the point.

“The point is that the guy walked up like he owned it, just helped himself and walked right off.”

Not deterred by the thief, Ward already put another light out to replace the one was taken. He says he looks forward to finding the person who stole a piece of his spirit.

“I’d love to see him get caught,” Ward said. “Chances are if he is just helping himself to my stuff he is helping himself to other people’s stuff too. I’d like to see him get caught and prosecuted.”


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#1. To: Dakmar (#0) (Edited)

Race of per unspecified and undiscernable..... "The racial makeup of the city was 53.3% African American" in the last census.

My cat is as thick with Pharaoh Semerkhet as Hillary used to be with Eleanor Roosevelt. I don't actually have a cat, but this is the sense of the meowings coming out of midair above my kitchen sink.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-12-06   20:38:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Dakmar (#0)

Who in hell would steal a light bulb?

Are you kidding me?

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2015-12-06   20:48:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Lod (#2)

Needs it for his DJing.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-12-06   20:51:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)

What is a DJing and why does it need a bulb?

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2015-12-06   20:56:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Lod (#2)

Who in hell would steal a light bulb?

Al Gore? :)

"Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow

Dakmar  posted on  2015-12-06   21:05:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

I don't actually have a cat, but this is the sense of the meowings coming out of midair above my kitchen sink.

Determine which before calling either the plumber or the History Channel.

"Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow

Dakmar  posted on  2015-12-06   21:08:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Lod (#4)

At a party or wedding reception, a guy plays records at an ear-splitting volume and people try to talk to each other over it. Sometimes involves psychedelic lights...... mebbe the perp just wanted it to light his own Xmas display?

I knew I'd arrived in S. Carolina when a bunch of rich people took me on a tour of the most extreme Xmas lights, which happened to be in a crummy redneck naberhood. I asked the guy driving the Cadillac to pull over so I could get a better look at one house front. "Don't do that!" they said. "They'll come out and shoot us." :-}

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-12-06   21:11:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#7)

OK - a DJ thing, finally I get it.

I'm happy to report that we've never had need of such.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2015-12-06   21:20:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#7) (Edited)

"Don't do that!" they said. "They'll come out and shoot us."

Reminds me of the time we were getting ready for this block party for a girl in the old neighborhood in Chicago. The night before, myself and a few of the guys got a case of beer and figured to get a head start on it. The cops were down the street talking to the father of the girl that the party was for.

A car went by with a couple of black guys in it. One of my buddies said, "Niggers! What are niggers doing around here?" They heard it and backed up. They said, "Ain't no niggers here. We all gonna get busted together and go to 26th and California where the brotha's is at." (County jail) I said, "Later, man." They said, "Ain't gonna be later, gonna be now. We got somethin' here gonna blow your shit away." The cops had backed up and left.

I called their bluff and went in the house and got the Mini-14. I chambered a round when I came out the door. When they saw that, they floored it and blew the stop sign at the corner getting out of there.

I knew a cop that was married to my sister and he told me they probably had a gun. I didn't care. I wasn't going to take that crap from them. ROTFLMAO!

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2015-12-06   21:29:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: BTP Holdings (#9)

Quite a story. "We all gonna get busted together" -- what do you spose that means?

"Later, man." Nice try! Ebonglish includes a lot of reducing words or phrases to a fragment.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-12-06   21:34:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: NeoconsNailed (#10)

"We all gonna get busted together" -- what do you spose that means?

They figured we would all get busted and none of us would make bail. From the local cop shop, they ship you to County Jail. Been there once and it was no picnic. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2015-12-06   21:37:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: BTP Holdings (#11) (Edited)

You mean because they were going to rumble you all right then and there?

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-12-06   21:39:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: NeoconsNailed (#12)

You mean because they were going to rumble you all right then and there?

Right. They were brave because the cops were right up the street. When the cops left, they figured to bluff us out. I called them on it and they cut out FAST. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2015-12-07   6:33:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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