# Christmas Vandals **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 26, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116 "2012-11-26T01:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/1 "2012-11-26T01:19:13Z")
Really!? My wife and I put up our display Saturday afternoon, one of the cutest we’d ever done. The centerpiece was a Santa’s sleigh with 4 reindeer pulling, all lit up with lights intertwined within. I was a little wary on one part of them. I’d taped part of the display with electrical tape. But upon inspection the next day, everything was holding up nicely. Then this evening, my daughter reported that all of the figures had fallen down. Now, one or two at the same time I’d understand, but this was all 5. When I went out to inspect them, the electrical tape on the two stands that were accessible from the sidewalk had had the tape folded over and the sticky sides pressed together. On the others, however, the tape was still loose, not folded over. It was not a coincidence then; someone had deliberately pulled down my display, then made the tape unusable to put it back up easily. Probably a youth with too much time on their hands. Maybe time to set up my webcamera looking out the window once I get it put back together. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/2 "2012-11-26T01:23:12Z")
They vandalized a piece of tape? With that kind of appreciation for thoroughness, that kid is going to go on to be a Supreme Court Justice or something. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/3 "2012-11-26T02:13:59Z")
Duct Tape. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/4 "2012-11-26T02:58:59Z")
At least they aren’t New Year’s Huns. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/5 "2012-11-26T03:16:24Z")
That’s nothing. Here in San Jose some asshole stole the Penguins from Christmas in the Park. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/6 "2012-11-26T04:12:01Z")
Give it a fucking rest. It’s not even December yet. You’re gonna be one of those guys who still has his blinkie-lights up in April, aren’t you? I say this brave youth should be commended for taking a bold stand against premature enblinkulation. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/7 "2012-11-26T04:19:15Z")
At least it’s after Thanksgiving. Cut the guy some slack, OK? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/8 "2012-11-26T04:24:46Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > At least it’s after Thanksgiving. Cut the guy some slack, OK? He’s probably already buying some of those chalk-candy hearts for Valentine’s day. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/9 "2012-11-26T04:36:05Z")
If I was King of the World, there would be no public signs of Christmas until December 1st. And then all would be taken down by Dec 31st unless special dispensation was sought due to being on a vacation or something. I also do not think it was vandals, I think it may have been bad luck coupled with critters. ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/10 "2012-11-26T05:43:54Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Give it a fucking rest. It’s not even December yet. You’re gonna be one of those guys who still has his blinkie-lights up in April, aren’t you? > > I say this brave youth should be commended for taking a bold stand against premature enblinkulation. You’re an asshole. And I say this as a non-celebrating, holiday-hating, “get bent with your lights” agnostic. I fucking hate holiday music, religious and secular. I despise the holiday creep that advances earlier and earlier every year. And you won’t find me dead shopping beyond the bare necessities this time of year. But dafuq? Dude waited until after Thanksgiving. He put his things up (not my cuppa, granted) at the appropriate time. There was no holiday bleed. You are an insufferable ass. Again, he didn’t put up his lights at Halloween or before Thanksgiving. He put his display up after Thanksgiving and some shithead vandalized it. He has every right to be pissed. I can tell I’d prefer him as a neighbor over you, despite the differences in our beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/11 "2012-11-26T06:00:11Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > Really!? My wife and I put up our display Saturday afternoon, one of the cutest we’d ever done. The centerpiece was a Santa’s sleigh with 4 reindeer pulling, all lit up with lights intertwined within. You’re just lucky those reindeer didn’t get unhooked from the sleigh and then shoved up your ass. Four reindeer? Fuck that shit. Maybe the alleged “vandals” took issue with decorational decision to unceremoniously ax half of the herd. Four reindeer? Last I heard, there were twice that many PLUS Rudolph. Who are you, the John Schattner of lawn decorations, pink-slipping half the sleigh-pulling positions because you don’t want to pay their stabling fees? I support the vandals, and will continue to support the continued de-taping of any lawn displays which do not represent an accurate depiction of Santa Claus! love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/12 "2012-11-26T06:06:42Z")
> [@azraiel](#): > > But dafuq? Dude waited until after Thanksgiving. He put his things up (not my cuppa, granted) at the appropriate time. There was no holiday bleed. The appropriate time is from Dec. 23rd until exactly 12:00 noon on Dec. 26th. All who fail to comply will be dropped off the the top of that big disco ball on New Year’s Eve. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/13 "2012-11-26T06:38:44Z")
It started around twelve years ago about a mile from my house. This one guy started putting up a huge Christmas display at his house that got more and more outrageous. Then the dude a couple of doors down took part and eventually the whole culdesac next to him. Now that fucking bus that goes around during the holidays to see the best decorations makes a drive by. I fucking hate it. It’s the gaudiest thing that you can possibly imagine. My worst nightmare is that more and more houses take part until that fucking shit metastasizes up to my house and I am known as the goddamned Jew who doesn’t take part. Anyway, this Holiday shit really, really annoys me. What pisses me off worse though would be to hear that some asshole went and ruined one of those guy’s display. That’s really crappy. People like that give us grinches a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/14 "2012-11-26T06:55:45Z")
This is probably not as bad as it gets in America, but [this guy](http://goo.gl/maps/vS516) lives near me. Christmas is always in summer down here, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/15 "2012-11-26T12:09:28Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > The appropriate time is from Dec. 23rd until exactly 12:00 noon on Dec. 26th. All who fail to comply will be dropped off the the top of that big disco ball on New Year’s Eve. Oh. You’re an Orthodox Textualist, Second Schism, I guess. I never understood why you people accept the disco ball while… Nevermind. We’ll just have to respectfully disagree. Heretic. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/16 "2012-11-26T15:15:26Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > This is probably not as bad as it gets in America, but [this guy](http://goo.gl/maps/vS516) lives near me. Christmas is always in summer down here, by the way. I’ve seen _junkyards_ less cluttered than that. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/17 "2012-11-26T16:05:04Z")
Really? Before the 1st of December? Round here people would be a little WTF? But they wouldn’t vandalize it, and they may have strung their own outdoor lights, but big displays of sleighs and reindeer, before December 1st, would be considered too much, way too soon. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/18 "2012-11-26T16:07:55Z")
After Thanksgiving is fine - especially if it’s relatively warm so you’re not trying to hang lights out in a sleet storm or something. But I have to back up **yams!!** - go real or go home with those 8(+1) tiny reindeer! ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/19 "2012-11-26T16:11:22Z")
If you put that tacky shit back up, I hope they get it worse next time. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116/20 "2012-11-26T18:03:28Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > If I was King of the World, there would be no public signs of Christmas until December 1st. And then all would be taken down by Dec 31st unless special dispensation was sought due to being on a vacation or something. > > I also do not think it was vandals, I think it may have been bad luck coupled with critters. What of Russia? They like to celebrate on the 7th of January. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116.md?page=2)