Candy theft caught by doorbell cameras

I would never be so brave as to leave our whole bowl of full size candy bars out unattended, especially since the first kids to come around are usually middle schoolers who would be more inclined to take the whole bowl (little kids seem to be a lot more honest IMO). But I have to say that I was really loving our cameras on Halloween! The extra minute of advance notice on my phone letting me know someone was coming up the driveway allowed me time to jump the baby gate and meet the kids at the door vs. listening to my crazy dog bark his head off for five minutes every time there was a knock on the door. 

I haven’t seen any recordings of decorations being stolen but the most outrageous candy theft I saw was where a small child was apparently taking too long to put handful after handful of candy in his bag (from an unattended candy bowl on the porch) and the adult with the child finally walked up, picked up the bowl and dumped the remaining candy from the bowl into the child’s bag! WOW...

We have had a lot of decoration theft in my neighborhood this year. Someone stole my neighbor's amazing Burt Reynolds carved pumpkin. Another one of my neighbor's had her skeleton family (mom, dad, and two dogs) stolen, and another neighbor's catrina skeleton that she hand-painted was stolen. All of them were caught on camera, but they are not from the neighborhood, so there's nothing that can be done. People suck.

It's been hit or miss in my neighborhood over the years. I would leave a whole box of full size candy bars out and some years there will be some left and others the whole box is gone. What are you gonna do if there is nobody that can stay home to pass out candy? We have had our carved pumpkins taken and smashed in the road. That makes me mad because its a mess to clean.

My mom left her big cauldron of candy out one year and came home to find all the candy and the cauldron gone. She was so mad someone would take the cauldron. That was the first and last time she left a bucket out.

It's sad when its the parents encouraging their kids or they themselves are the ones stealing. I expect if I leave a box of candy out that the first kid is gonna take it. I also feel like I cant take my kids trick or treating and not leave candy out myself.

Mean people suck so badly.

Dd saw a kid take her neighbor’s full bowl of candy. Her neighbor had just gone in the house for something. Then he came to dd’s Porch and sil said no way are you getting any candy from us. Sil then went to all the neighbors in their block and ratted him out so no one else gave him candy in that block.

30 minutes later he came back thinking maybe no one would recognize him. Sil wasn’t having it. Told him to go home.

I cannot believe people would steal decorations. Don’t people realize cameras are everywhere?

There were hardly any toters in our neighborhood at all. We went out for a walk to see the little kids, walked about a mile or so altogether, and saw a total of about 5 kids. So disappointing.