Christmas Vandals Target Light Displays Across Sacramento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Vandals astir Sacramento are targeting Christmas airy displays.

Diane Paulsen’s 1 Christmas privation to radiance a airy for her Elmhurst neighbors.

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“I conscionable wanted to springiness radical hope,” explained Paulsen. “I had a motion determination that said ‘Peace connected Earth’, and I could not ideate wherefore idiosyncratic would instrumentality it,” she said.

Instead, her location looks dim aft idiosyncratic pulled the plug connected her vacation spirit. Theives stole portion of her sign, including the stars, ripping down lights and attempting to instrumentality the full tract portion that Paulsen ordered months successful beforehand due to the fact that of its message.

“It’s ever been a privation of mine, not lone astatine Christmas but successful my prayers each the clip that radical with hatred successful their caput could marque a displacement for the positive,” she said.

Paulsen took the remainder of her lights down, fearing she would go a people again. Her location is not the lone 1 that’s been hit.

In Land Park, Marna Salazar explained a radical of teens caused much than $1,000 successful damage, ravaging the airy show she’s enactment connected for 45 years.

“Anger, I was precise angry,” said Salazar. “I heard immoderate noise, truthful I looked retired the model and saw immoderate darling young men stomping connected each my decorations,” she said.

That choler rapidly turned to joyousness aft hundreds of radical offered their support.

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“The outpouring for this was unbelievable, I had radical stopping by I didn’t adjacent cognize — trying to springiness maine money, trying to springiness maine stuff,” said Salazar.

A location successful East Sacramento caught much culprits connected camera. Video shows 2 radical rip lights from the beforehand tract and bargain immoderate earlier taking off.

“I conscionable don’t recognize destroying things to destruct it oregon bargain Christmas lights from someone’s yard,” explained homeowner, Christ August.

Despite a bid of scrooge-like behavior, homeowners aren’t letting a Grinch oregon 2 bargain their Christmas.

“I volition ne'er stop, this (the display) was up, backmost up successful 24 hours,” explained Salazar.

Paulsen who took down her show this twelvemonth said she is readying a bigger,

“It’s conscionable going to beryllium brighter and fancier,” explained Paulsen. “I should’ve enactment it backmost up again. I didn’t privation them to triumph but I decided that I’m going to bash it adjacent nicer and amended adjacent twelvemonth and person a small theft instrumentality connected it,” she said.

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Police are investigating the vandalism successful Land Park but bash not judge it’s connected to immoderate of the different vandalism.

Velena Jones