yes, it was a giant sandworm in a local front yard
and then – it wasn’t.
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as seen on my local nextdoor website:
I am absolutely devastated. Someone stole my inflatable giant sandworm right off my lawn sometime between last night and this afternoon. I didn’t notice if it was gone when I left for work this morning. I don’t know who would do such a thing.
quite a few people responded and almost every single person
answered with a variation of the same 3 words:
‘check the frats.’
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living in a college town, and three weeks before halloween, this is great advice.
(it may just be me, but i think this would be a hard one to hide)
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‘sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places’
–-lemony snicket, a series of unfortunate events #13
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 
An unkind prank.
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yes, and I feel they’ll get it back –
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I hope they do.
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I’ll post it if I read that they do –
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Yes, it’s those unexpected places where I find what I am searching for….
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never fails to be, does it?
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That would be a hard crime to hide, I agree, Beth. Very dastardly, too, I say.
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yes, to both. and I do feel like they’ll get it back and it will be found where most suggested )
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Lost: A giant inflatable bookworm – Found: Jonathan Swift’s book about the “Land of Giants”
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great answer!
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I imagine it will turn up somewhere.
The problem we have in our (old folks) home is my husband and I can set something down, turn ourselves around and never even knew we lost it. Never knew we had it.
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that’s the best! and I so get this –
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Hooligans!
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they are out in force !)
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So annoying.
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that would definitely be hard to hide, and hard to miss it in someone else’s back yard!
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exactly
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What a shame for them to steal it! Are going to get another one? Maybe set it up with some kind of alarm?
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I think they’re going to try to find it, and the city will help them
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Glad to hear that!
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Hope you find him
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the city is on it –
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Not a nice thing to do! Especially this time of year too.
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I agree –
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Sadly, I think that was asking to be stolen. I hope they bring it back when they have finished with it. 😊
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m pretty sure they’ll get it back, based on local history with returns from the frats, I think the novelty is seeing if they can take it.
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He must have spotted Beetlejuice…Beetlejuice…Beetle… :)
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exactly!
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If frat boys took it, maybe they’ll give it back after Halloween?
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what has been happening in the last couple of years is that the frat/uni powers that be set up an amnesty situation and ask for them all back and they’ve been pretty successful. families come and reclaim them.
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What a shame that people can’t have something fun in their yards without it being stolen.
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yes, and hopefully they’ll get it back –
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Oh dear…Check the frats seems like good advice. I just had the vision of the neighbor taking a sandworm from out from of a fraternity, but it being the wrong sandworm so that frat takes one from another and so on and so on until all the sandworms have been re-homed… :)
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there you go!))
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Hilarious! Heck ‘ya check the frats…
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in the last couple of years, the frats and uni leaders have had amnesty to return holiday decor and have been quite successful
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Ha! Sounds like when I was in college at the end of the year there was amnesty about turning in stolen cafeteria trays we used for sledding.
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same concept -)
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I’ve never even heard of a sandworm let alone wondered how to find one. :)
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It’s a character from beetle juice as I’ve recently learned from my grandchildren
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This is not exactly something the thief can reuse without being noticed. Hard to understand what their motive is.
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exactly, that’s why it seems to be dare type of situation, such as something some of the frats have done in the past, and hopefully will get back. I feel for the family because they were so excited
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Not nice and illegal, frats or not. It was a very nice sandworm. At our house we have the Ring system with cameras. You can record “pranks” like this as well as catching porch pirates.
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yes, and the frats and city have ruled this type of prank illegal as well ,and will hopefully get it back
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Yes I certainly hope you get it back.
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I hope the worm comes home.
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I do too
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Generally I hate inflatables, but this one is pretty cool! (I swear I didn’t take it though.)
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Hmmmmm..
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😀
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Aww cute. Hope they found it! 😊
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I feel that they will
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Not nice of them at all. I hope it gets returned
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I do too!
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