Posted on 10/19/2022 4:40:04 PM PDT by McGruff
It's no mystery how a giant skeleton went missing from the front yard of a home in Texas. The 14-foot skeleton was shamelessly hijacked in broad daylight from a front yard in a neighborhood in Austin, Texas.
The theft was captured on a neighbor's security camera at a condominium community at approximately 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.
The footage shows a woman pulling up in a white SUV and leisurely taking apart the gangly ghoulish decoration. The individual later shoves the dismembered skeleton into her vehicle and drives away.
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Reparations?
A house in my neighborhood has that same skeleton. Looks cool in the day and even better at night.
Reparations? Crime, it's what we do!
When my kids were little, we always crafted really cool homemade scarecrows and scary monsters for the front porch. We went to Goodwill and scrounged around to find fun stuff. One year, my daughter found a HUGE pair of white shaggy boots up to the knee and that looked really good on the scarecrow. We had fun finding outlandish clothes to dress him and we always made the heads out of carved pumpkins held up on stakes that we got at one of the pumpkin patches out on the coast. A couple of hay bales, some corn shocks, a big black cauldron filled with water and dry ice on Halloween night. None of it cost much money, a trip or two to Goodwill. But we spent lots of time planning, designing, scrounging, and building and assembling our fun scenes.
I feel very sorry for kids today with all the factory-made, expensive Halloween crap like in this article. What’s the fun of buying that plastic garbage and putting it up with the horrible “scary” sounds coming out of it? Where’s the family fun time and creativity?
Ugh.
They appear Hispanic.
Same here, except it’s been up for months! I took a picture over the summer to show my friends, and an arm fell off recently. I think they’re Grateful Dead fans.
Another annoying person.
This is about as stupid as the person who broke into a gunshop and stole a customized Breast Cancer Awareness Smith and Wesson 15-22.
Horrible!
In the 1970’s we had a neighbor 3 doors up who had their Christmas lights stolen off of their evergreen trees.
Merry Christmas!
I know what you mean but some people aren’t very creative. I have trouble thinking outside the box myself but you gave some good ideas.
Glad I helped! These little projects really sparked creativity in our kids. By the time our oldest was 7 or 8, she was essentially doing them on her own with my guidance. We used to have so much fun going around looking for cheap stuff to make our scarecrows and come up with new ideas every year.
The nice thing is there’s no “right” answer. Whatever you come up with will be great and look super. Have you ever seen a bad looking scarecrow? The more outlandish, the better. Plus the trick or treaters loved them.
I’d like to post photos of some of our creations, but I just won’t post pictures of my kids on the ‘net.
A house in my neighborhood has a large blow up Dinosaur skeleton.
Yep it’s a lot of fun to create your own. Much more so then spending hundreds of dollars on manufactured. Somehow over time I’ve lost the ability to put things like that together but when I was younger I remember my folks and I creating a haunted house in our basement complete with stuffed ghouls and little brothers pulling the strings behind the chairs. We had my junior high school friends over for a Halloween party. Lasting memories.
These large skeletons are apparently in high demand and low supply.
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