What Goes Around Comes Around

To the Editor:

To the person who stole our decorative reindeer from our lawn:

We certainly hope you enjoy the lighted reindeer our family has had since our child was a baby. It’s been a family tradition to place it on our lawn every single year. We hope you are happy that you have ruined that tradition for our family. Perhaps you thought it was fun to park your car on the side of the road, walk up to within five feet of our home, unplug it, pull the stakes up that held it in place, and put it in your vehicle.

Your thoughtless crime broke our child’s heart. We have no idea how people like you can sleep at night. We no longer feel safe in our own home knowing a bottom-dweller such as yourself would have the audacity to commit a crime within steps from our front door. Just remember, what goes around, comes around. Someday something you cherish will be stolen or vandalized but you will have no right to complain, will you? It’s too bad you obviously were never taught the difference between right and wrong. You are nothing more than a petty thief. Hopefully you will get for Christmas what you so richly deserve: a nice pair of handcuffs and a stint in jail.

Criminals like you always screw up and get caught. Eventually you will as well. For now, you can live with yourself knowing the heartache you caused a family that did absolutely nothing to you.

Carolyn Bergen

89 New Lebbon Road, Sandy Hook              December 28, 2007