How do you steal Christmas? This Scrooge found a way, North Carolina store owner says
The thief who stole Christmas from a general store in North Carolina got caught on camera.
Security footage outside the Hitchn Post General Store in Dobson captured a white truck hauling off its Christmas decorations Sunday night, the store said in a Facebook post.
Now the owner is trying to track down the culprit.
“Every year we decorate, spend our time and money for the kids and customers!!!!” the post states. “This man has taken our decorations overnight!!! If you know this vehicle please let me know! If you see it please tell me where!!!!!”
Dobson is a small town of roughly 1,500 residents near the Virginia border that’s home to one of the largest wineries on the East Coast, Shelton Vineyards.
The Hitchn Post — which is part gas station, part snack bar and part convenience store — sits just south of town on U.S. 601, only a few miles east of Shelton, surrounded by cornfields.
Kristi Proffit, who owns the general store, told the Winston-Salem Journal she arrived at work Monday around 5:30 a.m. to find the decorations she and her staff had put up the day before “strewn all over.”
Her centerpiece — a seven-and-a-half-foot artificial Christmas tree — was also gone.
Proffit notified the Surry County Sheriff’s Office about the incident, the newspaper reported. But she worried the person who took it might not have been able to afford their own tree.
“We’re good people here,” she said, according to the Journal. “We’re all about Christmas, and you know what Christmas means. If they needed the tree, I gladly would’ve given it to them.”
This story was originally published December 2, 2019 at 5:43 PM with the headline "How do you steal Christmas? This Scrooge found a way, North Carolina store owner says."
