Before Halloween, it's not a prank, it's stealing

TO THE EDITOR:

During a family vacation for me, my husband, and my two children (ages one and two) to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., we bought a big pumpkin weighing about 50 pounds and two small pumpkins.

All four of us fixed a display in our front yard on Spring Street. My children were very excited about their pumpkins.

Then on Sunday before Halloween, someone decided to steal the pumpkins. When we left for church Sunday morning the pumpkins were there, but when we returned home from seeing their great-grandfather in the hospital on Sunday night, we found their pumpkins gone.

When my two-year-old saw they were gone, he asked, "Mama, are they going to bring my pumpkins back?"

How do you explain that to a twoyear old?

I know that it is common that people take pumpkins on Halloween night but to take them before then is just stealing!

PATTY DURHAM