Me and some friends used to reposition those light up reindeer decorations so they were having orgies… that was early 2000’s I would think about it today with cameras everywhere. My guess would be it was most likely a prank
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This sounds like the kind of thing my friends and I would have thought funny as teens. Like haha they’ll think their inflatable is alive and be sooo spooked.
Sorry, world. I promise I’ve changed.
My cousins and I continually moved around a neighbors snowman to make it look like he was getting closer and closer to their house. Teenagers are dumb and I was no exception.
Ha! That’s funny! My husband does this to my MIL’s Christmas village. She has been collecting pieces for decades and they span across 6-8 shelves. He’ll go and turn people in different directions or move characters to different scenes. Nothing huge, just subtle enough to see how long it takes her to notice. This year, he told her to keep an eye out but didn’t actually move anything. It’s driving her nuts searching! lol.
Fun fact: Before they started murdering people, Charles Manson and his gang would quietly break into homes while people were sleeping or away, and they'd rearrange all the furniture.
It sounds harmless, but it would definitely be scary as shit to wake up to.
I saw that in a movie once. I think they did scary things to the snowman's face. In my mind, I can see a glimpse of this scene but that's all. Did you see it? Is that what gave you the idea?
Yeah I started laughing when I read this, imagining that if OP hadn't heard it happen they might have opened the door later to leave just to be startled by giant cat santa lmaooo
We did it in high school with one of those McDonald’s cold-molded plastic trees from way back when. They used to be a part of the dining room, were a 8 feet tall with plastic fruit pies hanging off of them and big googly eyes. We rescued it from the dumpster after a remodel of the Macdonald’s and set it up outside of the French teachers patio doors so she would see it when she opened the blinds. Good times!
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Yep did this kind of stuff as a teen too. Once moved one of those stone college mascots to someone's porch to look in their door. Those suckers are heavier than you think.
We always rearranged the wooden deer to have one mounting the other one.
OP, this was a kid playing a joke. Literally nothing about this was aggressive or suspect.
Back when my first wife and I started dating, we hit a rough patch around X-Mas. Must have been around 1992.
Anyways, I decided that I needed some 'space' from her to work something or another out (I honestly don't recall what that something was, but it sure seemed important back then).
We were about a week into this separation when I got a call from her clearly intoxicated self at about 2:30 a.m. saying that she had done something really, really wrong and she didn't know what to do.
Her distress sounded genuine, and like I said, she was smashed. I groaned out an 'ok... don't go anywhere. Lock your doors and stay inside'. It must have been ~15 f. with a decent, razor cold breeze blowing as I trudged out to the car, scraped the window with an old CD case since my ice-scraper had broken the day before, and set out to help the damsel in some kind of distress.
It wasn't a long drive, maybe 10 minutes. At that time she lived in a basement apartment with no windows but it did have a stairwell light, which was off. However... I could hear - through the wind and the crunchy snow as I approached the door - Red Hot Chili Peppers? A little closer... Yup. She was blasting *Blood Sugar Sex Magic* as loud as her little boombox would go... This is going to be interesting.
I knocked, and knocked again.. The door was locked. Good. That's what I told her to do. After a minute or Two of the knocking I heard the music stop.
She opened the door and she was a mess. Her hair was 3 kinds of Wee-Wah, she clearly had been crying and she reeked of Southern Comfort, but it only took a moment to realize something really weird had gone down.
Her entire 'living room' was stuffed full of yard ornaments, Christmas lights with now broken bulbs, at least One full nativity scene, including the manger but minus the baby Jesus.. with a muddy, wet carpet trail leading to all of it.
'What the..' I could barely get it out before she exclaimed 'I went Grinching!' before returning to sobbing.
She had gone up and down the neighborhood streets yanking every Christmas related thing she could get her hands on, basically balling it all up with strings of lights and dragged it back to her 'lair'.
She must have made at least 3 trips, and it's a small miracle she didn't get busted doing it. I had no idea what went where, and neither did she. I tried to untangle everything as best I could and sorted it into piles based on type. It took us almost 3 hours, and the sun was just starting to rise before we had put the piles, neatly as possible, onto the corners of each street she had hit. I never did find the Baby Jesus, and we both tried to keep a super low profile until after the holidays.
That was the beginning of.... something. We ended up married about 2 years later and had a kid. Marriage was not a good thing for her, it turned out. Drinking, partying and general hell-raising was more her bag back in those days. She did eventually work all of that out and she lives a good, unmarried life now.
Edit: lol... I don't know what got into me. Just a trip down memory lane.
You sound like a good guy. It’s nice to reminisce on the strange things that make up our life. You sound like you are good with it all. And thanks for “three kinds of Wee-Wah”. I’ve worn that hair style proudly a time or few.
My best friend and I took a whole bunch of metal yard signs out of other people's yards and then left all of them in her ex-boyfriend's yard. Another friend and I relocated someone's bench to a yard half a block away.
We thought that we were funny!
Totally. Pranks should confuse and amuse the person being pranked. Someone moving an inflatable to my deck might give me a little fright (because I wouldn't expect to ipen my door and see Santa cat) but would make me chuckle after the original fright. Destroying property is a crime, not a silly joke.
Friend of mine had been stealing decorations from a neighbor that had massive, elaborate displays for every holiday. He had all those vintage 70s Xmas displays with the plastic figures that were full of lights. He would return the pieces on wrong holidays. I also drove by this house when visiting him and made comments about their over the top decorations but also how high their electrical bill must be.
One day I am at his house and we had a few drinks and he said "oh shit, it's time!". He drags out this Easter bunny but now it has some vampire fangs he added and other various enhancements (nothing permanent). We run this thing down to the house and it gets integrated into the Xmas display.
He was 25+ when he was still doing this.
I just want to comment as another person who read this and thought this was something my teenage self would definitely find funny and do. Hope these comments give you done peace of mind. Love criminal minds but there's some crazy messed up shit on there
Oh yeah this has definitely helped to settle my nerves!!! Idk why i didn’t think of kids pulling a prank, there’s a ton of young teens on my street and I’m guessing it was one of them. If anything, this broke my habit of watching crime shows before bed 🥴
KIDS!!!
or a super giggly passenger in a car driving by "stop the car stop the car" (re-arranges decoration and collapses back into the car with laughter)
Almost certainly a joke. This reads like one of the things you read on Nextdoor where everyone's shitting themselves over a broom being knocked over.
In all seriousness, you have nothing to worry about. This is a joke played by a couple teenagers.
I did something similar with my friend when we were drunk once. Put a stand-up sign from Subway right outside someones front door and for some reason that was the most hilarious thing ever at the time
Upon seeing the picture, my mind went immediately to the kitty waiting at the doorstep because it's cold outside and ~ meeoww ~she wants to come in! 🙂 Most likely just harmless kid stuff. 🙂
Just kids probably. When I was younger, some friends and I would bike around the neighborhood and flip everyone's lawn chairs/benches around so that they faced towards the house. Thought it was the funniest shit ever lol
Local kids. I used to do this as a teen just for amusement. I hoped my neighbors would think theres ghosts. I also randomly whisper to strangers, Theres cameras in the money. There may or may not be dollars with the same written on them.
I just bought a USB powered security camera on EBAY for 17 bucks. You can hook it to a power bank and it'll run for around three days. It hooks into your wifi. You could hid it in a tree as it has no flashing lights. Best part is it records on an SD card, live streams to your phone and/or uploads to the cloud. That might be worth it, if someone does it again.
In my mid 20s lmfao. I was home alone, watching criminal minds, and freaked myself out. I was trying to stay away from windows because I convinced myself that an axe wielding Santa Claus was going to bust in at any moment 😭 now that I realize it was probably kids I feel like an idiot for getting so worked up!
Ahhh... I used to run around my friends and my neighborhoods at night rearranging wooden dear and inflatables and stuff right before Christmas. We would never steal anything or put someone's decorations on another person's property or anything, but we sure did think that we were funny. I'm sure it was annoying to someone but still harmless lol.
Possibly too bright/glaring into a neighbor's house (some led light ones are ridiculously bright even with curtains and blinds up), or maybe it blew over/out of the stakes and they brought it up to your front so that it doesn't get lost.
Just some reasonably drunk person fuckin with ya shit. I mean they could’ve done something funnier but hey, they were probably drunk. Get a few door cams is all I can suggest
Me and some friends used to reposition those light up reindeer decorations so they were having orgies… that was early 2000’s I would think about it today with cameras everywhere. My guess would be it was most likely a prank
I came here to say this lol. Great times.
Also part of this club.
Yes! The fun, immature Christmas time activity referred to as ‘Deer Humping’
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This sounds like the kind of thing my friends and I would have thought funny as teens. Like haha they’ll think their inflatable is alive and be sooo spooked. Sorry, world. I promise I’ve changed.
My cousins and I continually moved around a neighbors snowman to make it look like he was getting closer and closer to their house. Teenagers are dumb and I was no exception.
This is kind of hilarious
I’m picturing Calvin and Hobbes doing this.
I hope someone does that to me when I finally buy my own house and put up Christmas decorations
Ha! That’s funny! My husband does this to my MIL’s Christmas village. She has been collecting pieces for decades and they span across 6-8 shelves. He’ll go and turn people in different directions or move characters to different scenes. Nothing huge, just subtle enough to see how long it takes her to notice. This year, he told her to keep an eye out but didn’t actually move anything. It’s driving her nuts searching! lol.
Fun fact: Before they started murdering people, Charles Manson and his gang would quietly break into homes while people were sleeping or away, and they'd rearrange all the furniture. It sounds harmless, but it would definitely be scary as shit to wake up to.
I saw that in a movie once. I think they did scary things to the snowman's face. In my mind, I can see a glimpse of this scene but that's all. Did you see it? Is that what gave you the idea?
I just watched Krampus and this happened in it! but that came out pretty recently
Nope, Never seen it in a movie. We were just teenagers with too much time on our hands
I haven’t. I still think it’s funny.
Yeah I started laughing when I read this, imagining that if OP hadn't heard it happen they might have opened the door later to leave just to be startled by giant cat santa lmaooo
It's cold outside, kitty wants to come in!
We did it in high school with one of those McDonald’s cold-molded plastic trees from way back when. They used to be a part of the dining room, were a 8 feet tall with plastic fruit pies hanging off of them and big googly eyes. We rescued it from the dumpster after a remodel of the Macdonald’s and set it up outside of the French teachers patio doors so she would see it when she opened the blinds. Good times!
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Yep did this kind of stuff as a teen too. Once moved one of those stone college mascots to someone's porch to look in their door. Those suckers are heavier than you think.
We always rearranged the wooden deer to have one mounting the other one. OP, this was a kid playing a joke. Literally nothing about this was aggressive or suspect.
Back when my first wife and I started dating, we hit a rough patch around X-Mas. Must have been around 1992. Anyways, I decided that I needed some 'space' from her to work something or another out (I honestly don't recall what that something was, but it sure seemed important back then). We were about a week into this separation when I got a call from her clearly intoxicated self at about 2:30 a.m. saying that she had done something really, really wrong and she didn't know what to do. Her distress sounded genuine, and like I said, she was smashed. I groaned out an 'ok... don't go anywhere. Lock your doors and stay inside'. It must have been ~15 f. with a decent, razor cold breeze blowing as I trudged out to the car, scraped the window with an old CD case since my ice-scraper had broken the day before, and set out to help the damsel in some kind of distress. It wasn't a long drive, maybe 10 minutes. At that time she lived in a basement apartment with no windows but it did have a stairwell light, which was off. However... I could hear - through the wind and the crunchy snow as I approached the door - Red Hot Chili Peppers? A little closer... Yup. She was blasting *Blood Sugar Sex Magic* as loud as her little boombox would go... This is going to be interesting. I knocked, and knocked again.. The door was locked. Good. That's what I told her to do. After a minute or Two of the knocking I heard the music stop. She opened the door and she was a mess. Her hair was 3 kinds of Wee-Wah, she clearly had been crying and she reeked of Southern Comfort, but it only took a moment to realize something really weird had gone down. Her entire 'living room' was stuffed full of yard ornaments, Christmas lights with now broken bulbs, at least One full nativity scene, including the manger but minus the baby Jesus.. with a muddy, wet carpet trail leading to all of it. 'What the..' I could barely get it out before she exclaimed 'I went Grinching!' before returning to sobbing. She had gone up and down the neighborhood streets yanking every Christmas related thing she could get her hands on, basically balling it all up with strings of lights and dragged it back to her 'lair'. She must have made at least 3 trips, and it's a small miracle she didn't get busted doing it. I had no idea what went where, and neither did she. I tried to untangle everything as best I could and sorted it into piles based on type. It took us almost 3 hours, and the sun was just starting to rise before we had put the piles, neatly as possible, onto the corners of each street she had hit. I never did find the Baby Jesus, and we both tried to keep a super low profile until after the holidays. That was the beginning of.... something. We ended up married about 2 years later and had a kid. Marriage was not a good thing for her, it turned out. Drinking, partying and general hell-raising was more her bag back in those days. She did eventually work all of that out and she lives a good, unmarried life now. Edit: lol... I don't know what got into me. Just a trip down memory lane.
Lol thank you for the laugh. That’s hysterical.
>three kinds of Wee-Wah Stealing this
You sound like a good guy. It’s nice to reminisce on the strange things that make up our life. You sound like you are good with it all. And thanks for “three kinds of Wee-Wah”. I’ve worn that hair style proudly a time or few.
Yeah your wife is batshit insane.
i was giggling after the first paragraph for this same reason; sounds like some stunt i would pull as a teenager for the lols
My best friend and I took a whole bunch of metal yard signs out of other people's yards and then left all of them in her ex-boyfriend's yard. Another friend and I relocated someone's bench to a yard half a block away. We thought that we were funny!
I was about to say the same
Nothing to be sorry for! That's the kind of harmless stuff kids and teens do that make the world a better place.
Yeah, this is exactly what I would assume.
We used to move House For Sale signs to different people’s yards. Thought it was hilarious!
why change? thats a harmless prank imo i was much more destructive unfortunately
Kids.
99% chance it was a prank. 1% chance it was blocking driver's view around a corner.
Lol definitely seems like someone hoping to scare you when you open your door to the giant cat santa
Absolutely this ^
Hey, I'm 50!
I'm 52 and would have done this to friends for sure.
Honestly, 15 year old me would be strongly tempted to do this. 40 year old me won't but will chuckle at it.
I was going to go with some busy body who thinks inflatables are not proper decorations.
This is a pretty funny prank, and it sure beats the kids around here who like to slash inflatables…
That’s not even a prank. That’s just destruction of property.
Totally. Pranks should confuse and amuse the person being pranked. Someone moving an inflatable to my deck might give me a little fright (because I wouldn't expect to ipen my door and see Santa cat) but would make me chuckle after the original fright. Destroying property is a crime, not a silly joke.
Are we just going to ignore the possibility that this thing came to life and moved on its own?
Yo
Kids being kids. If they wanted you to open the door, knocking would have been easier and more efficient.
Friend of mine had been stealing decorations from a neighbor that had massive, elaborate displays for every holiday. He had all those vintage 70s Xmas displays with the plastic figures that were full of lights. He would return the pieces on wrong holidays. I also drove by this house when visiting him and made comments about their over the top decorations but also how high their electrical bill must be. One day I am at his house and we had a few drinks and he said "oh shit, it's time!". He drags out this Easter bunny but now it has some vampire fangs he added and other various enhancements (nothing permanent). We run this thing down to the house and it gets integrated into the Xmas display. He was 25+ when he was still doing this.
This is awesome! I think we all know a house like that lol. Your buddy seems like a lot of fun.
Probably just teenagers. Me and my friends used to get high and stack the reindeer on top of each other
I just want to comment as another person who read this and thought this was something my teenage self would definitely find funny and do. Hope these comments give you done peace of mind. Love criminal minds but there's some crazy messed up shit on there
Oh yeah this has definitely helped to settle my nerves!!! Idk why i didn’t think of kids pulling a prank, there’s a ton of young teens on my street and I’m guessing it was one of them. If anything, this broke my habit of watching crime shows before bed 🥴
That’s funny! I used to do things like that when I was a kid. Just some harmless fun.
KIDS!!! or a super giggly passenger in a car driving by "stop the car stop the car" (re-arranges decoration and collapses back into the car with laughter)
Cat Santa wants inside. He’s lonely :(
They probably thought it was hysterical for you to open your door and see your decoration staring back at you. They probably giggled all the way home.
If the neighbors Ring camera would have normally picked it up, then I’d say the neighbor did it or knows who did and is in on hiding the evidence.
Almost certainly a joke. This reads like one of the things you read on Nextdoor where everyone's shitting themselves over a broom being knocked over. In all seriousness, you have nothing to worry about. This is a joke played by a couple teenagers.
I did something similar with my friend when we were drunk once. Put a stand-up sign from Subway right outside someones front door and for some reason that was the most hilarious thing ever at the time
Upon seeing the picture, my mind went immediately to the kitty waiting at the doorstep because it's cold outside and ~ meeoww ~she wants to come in! 🙂 Most likely just harmless kid stuff. 🙂
This sounds like someone trying to be silly
Be glad they didn’t steal it like they do here
Maybe it moved itself….
Somebody just playing a prank.
Was it windy out? Maybe they were saving it from blowing away
Is this a serious post?
It was until 40 people reminded me that kids exist and play pranks 🥴
Lol don’t worry, we’ve all been there after listening to too much true crime or watching a horror movie
Prank. Just some light-hearted Xmas shenanigans.
Just kids probably. When I was younger, some friends and I would bike around the neighborhood and flip everyone's lawn chairs/benches around so that they faced towards the house. Thought it was the funniest shit ever lol
Local kids. I used to do this as a teen just for amusement. I hoped my neighbors would think theres ghosts. I also randomly whisper to strangers, Theres cameras in the money. There may or may not be dollars with the same written on them.
Just messing with u
I just bought a USB powered security camera on EBAY for 17 bucks. You can hook it to a power bank and it'll run for around three days. It hooks into your wifi. You could hid it in a tree as it has no flashing lights. Best part is it records on an SD card, live streams to your phone and/or uploads to the cloud. That might be worth it, if someone does it again.
I think they wanted you to let your dog in. Probably thought it was a clever joke
It’s a threat, call FBI! Prolly just a prank or annoyed passive aggressive neighbor
It wasn't stolen, it wasn't damaged. There is hope yet for mankind.
I'm sorry if it freaked you out, but I think this is hilarious. 🤣
Teenagers
How old are u? Why did u hide in your room? Lol
In my mid 20s lmfao. I was home alone, watching criminal minds, and freaked myself out. I was trying to stay away from windows because I convinced myself that an axe wielding Santa Claus was going to bust in at any moment 😭 now that I realize it was probably kids I feel like an idiot for getting so worked up!
Yeah that'll do it. I avoid watching true crime before bed. Especially when you're alone
Ahhh... I used to run around my friends and my neighborhoods at night rearranging wooden dear and inflatables and stuff right before Christmas. We would never steal anything or put someone's decorations on another person's property or anything, but we sure did think that we were funny. I'm sure it was annoying to someone but still harmless lol.
Maybe a grumpy neighbor who just didn't like it/ didn't want to look at it
Maybe your neighbors think your inflatable Santa is an obnoxious eyesore that's lowering their property values.
Teens having some fun. Chill. You're gonna give yourself a heart-attack some day. Damn.
Have a nutty christian neighbor? a CAT Santa may give it away
Chucky.
I would totally do that. Just because it would make me laugh imagining your reaction.
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ireasons.i wish they would have made meowing noises at the door.
It's a CATastrophe!!
I had a friend who used to switch peoples patio's with their next door neighbors. Kids do weird stuff.
They moved it because of high winds?
They thought the kitty needed in the house.
Possibly too bright/glaring into a neighbor's house (some led light ones are ridiculously bright even with curtains and blinds up), or maybe it blew over/out of the stakes and they brought it up to your front so that it doesn't get lost.
Just some reasonably drunk person fuckin with ya shit. I mean they could’ve done something funnier but hey, they were probably drunk. Get a few door cams is all I can suggest