Thieves steal Halloween decorations in Irvington neighborhood

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A few Halloween shows in Irvington didn’t scare thieves away. Now folks within the neighborhood are taking motion to not solely discover the culprits, however deter future thefts.

“It’s for the kids to get pleasure from. They’re primarily big toys and how much man would steal these?” Chris Ray, an Indianapolis resident, stated.

Ray is asking for assist after somebody stole his Beetlejuice and Jack Skellington shows. He lives on South Webster Road.

He’s put up indicators with the hopes of discovering the thieves.

“I used to be livid on the time. I used to be simply going to cancel my Halloween show indefinitely,” Ray stated.

The gadgets had been in his neighbors’ yards.

He had his personal clown show in his, which he has now taken down.

“I’ve a 12 foot clown and doubtless someplace between 10 to fifteen life dimension clowns and a complete bunch of small clowns. It’s fairly loopy,” Ray stated.

In keeping with Ray, the thieves focused the properties on totally different days regardless of finest efforts from his neighbor.

“He truly tied it up fairly tight to his entrance porch and some days later that bought stolen and that was just a little devastating as a result of we’ve got all this different Beetlejuice stuff to go together with the one prop,” Ray stated.

Christina Kingery says somebody stole her Halloween show final 12 months.

“We had put out our I name it our creepy clown as a result of he’s bought the shaky, shaky doll after which the squatting clown on the barrel over right here. He had taken that one as effectively,” Kingery stated.

This 12 months, she and her husband have barbed wired their gadgets to discourage the thieves.

“It actually upsets me. I imply it’s for the youngsters, and you then come by and also you form of damper any individual’s vacation and it’s all about enjoyable,” Kingery stated.

Ray says he may have his clowns show up on Halloween if climate permits.