Boy asks Santa to put vandals on ‘naughty list’ after Christmas display destroyed
Posted December 7, 2016 1:49 pm.
Last Updated December 7, 2016 2:36 pm.
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A Grinch-like act of vandalism has prompted a six-year-old Oakville boy to pen Santa a letter, politely asking that the perpetrators be put on the “naughty list.”
Finn Caldwell wrote the letter after several blow-up decorations he helped assemble in the family’s front yard on Valleyridge Drive near Bronte Road and Dundas Street West were destroyed late Sunday or early Monday morning.
“Dear Santa,” Finn wrote. “Kids or robbers chopped holes in our blow-ups. Don’t go to their house. Love, Finn Caldwell. Bye Santa” (CityNews corrected Finn’s spelling. See original letter below.)
Finn is one of four siblings left heartbroken by the senseless destruction.
In a letter to the Oakville Beaver, Finn’s mother said her kids were “inconsolable” and she explained how Finn especially cherishes decorating the yard when the holidays roll around.
“(Finn) is very passionate about his blow-ups,” Dana Caldwell said. “He designs our yard layout and helps my husband install everything … and takes full responsibility for turning them on after school each day and making sure everything is perfect.
“We were all shocked to find that most of our blow-ups had been destroyed.”
A blow-up Yoda, reindeer, elf and three snowmen were all destroyed. A lighted present decoration was also stolen.
“I wrote that letter because people that cut my blow-ups are really bad,” Finn told CityNews on Wednesday.
“I want (Santa) to put them on the naughty list, because they are really bad and cut things … They ruined Christmas for me.”