A rash of thefts of Halloween yard decorations have been reported to local police and on social media – and the home office of us here at Augusta Free Press is among the victims.
The first we heard of the story was actually in a group text from Camille Dierksheide, a Staunton woman who has been erecting elaborate Halloween displays in the front yard of her North Coalter Street home for the past several years.
I was included on the group text at 8:49 a.m. on Wednesday.
We didn’t notice that there were items missing from our front-yard display until the early afternoon on Wednesday.
We decided to call Waynesboro Police, not to make a formal report, but just out of an assumption that others may have made reports, after we’d noticed that we had gotten a Ring alert overnight about similar theft reports in other locations in the city.
Basically, if police ended up finding out who was behind this nonsense, and they came across a treasure trove of Halloween knick-knacks, we wanted to be on the record so we could get our stuff back.
Talking with police, we learned that this was very much on their radar, and scrolling through social media today, I’m seeing more reports from people who’ve had stuff taken from their Halloween displays.
Somebody somewhere has a mess of all of our Halloween décor in their backyard, a back porch, a storage building, or they just dumped it on the side of the road in a remote spot.
A–holes, is all I can say about them.
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Chris Graham
