Thread: Bad Eggs

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I was hoping some could give me some advice. I am a big Halloween fan and absolutely love to dress my house up for the Holiday. I am usually working on my lawn earlier in the season and setting some of my lawn props up to warm up for the season but this year there must be some bad eggs hanging around our neighbourhood. Kids bikes have been disappearing and I myself caught kids stealing lawn chairs off my front lawn. I'm pretty disappointed because I'm thinking that it really may not be a good idea to decorate at all until Halloween day and then try to take it all down again at night. Either this or most of my stuff will likely disappear.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? Any advice of teen-proofing my front lawn??

sorry no advice, just commiseration. i was decorating the outside like 2 or 3 weeks in advance. Then i came home one night and saw my blucky that i had in a chair all decorated tossed about over the lawn. So now i usually do it the week of and put nothing out that I won't be upset about it being ruined.

Sorry to hear Mem. It really takes away from the fun.

It's unfortunate but that seems the way it's going in a lot of towns, including my own. No putting anything out that could be taken, until the day of.

Honestly?

You could put up a high dollar security system, complete with cameras.

You could take the week of Halloween off and keep a constant vigil on the yard, even at night.

You could put everything up on the morning of Halloween and take it down after midnight. (the most common solution)

You could fence the yard and get a large, vocal dog.

Barbed wire or electric fence? > It could add to the ambiance!

Seriously, I don't know. Even if you do put up a security camera, it is really going to do anything? So you have it recorded, are the police going to be of any help and would it really get your stuff back? I think the dog solution would be the best, but getting a dog just for Halloween decorations is a little impractical and who knows if the dog would take interest in the decorations too. Last year I had a wreath I made on my front door destroyed and it was pretty disheartening. Sorry you are having to deal with lame neighbors too!

That was supposed to be a mean smiley face. Yarrrr!

What about some flood lights pointed at your front yard? You can also get a fake security camera and rig it up in plain site. This might scare away the vandals.

BOO BABY! We must live in the same neighborhood!!! That is so funny , I was just thinking the same thing just a couple of days ago. My neighborhood has reached that dreaded point where all the chidren have turned into teens and theres been tons of smashed mailboxes , shattered beer bottles and overall mahem. Theres no chance in he!l that my precious decorations are going to make it outside for more than a couple of days..and I am so bummed about it Im seriously considering next year making a walkthrough area in my backyard instead.

I would like to suggest:
bear trap
electrical fencing
motion detector lights
roof top servalence with a bb gun

But then once they get caught... they will likely sue you for damages even though they are trespassing on your property, & destroying your things.

Why is it that someone has to wreck things for others? Guess I'll never understand what goes through their heads. Why do they feel the need to destroy something that someone else has taken time, money, & energy to create? Grrr!!!!