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Homes across the Bay Area report thefts of Halloween decorations

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Homes across the Bay Area report thefts of Halloween decorations — Piedmont Technology news

This October, thieves are going after Halloween decorations outside of people’s homes around the Bay Area. A surveillance video in San Francisco shows someone in a green hoodie walking by. He seems to spot the inflatables. He grabs them and then walks away with them. “My husband said, ‘Hey, did you move the blow ups inside for any reason into the garage?’ and I said, ‘No, I didn’t,’ he said, ‘I was going to turn them on but I just looked at the Ring camera and someone came at 2 a.m. and grabbed them’,” SF resident Diana Naranjo said. Naranjo says it happened about a week ago. The decorations were her kids’ favorites. “I was like, ‘Oh man, my boys are going to be disappointed’,” she said. “They were the boys specific favorites because it’s Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s our favorite movie, we couldn’t find a replacement.” And she’s not alone. Last week, NBC Bay Area reported about a San Leandro family who said they got their animatronics stolen. There have also been

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