Thieves steal presents

By Casey Neill
A MENZIES Creek single father last week learned the hard way that thieves don’t care if it’s Christmas.
Steve, who did not want his surname printed, is warning others to watch out during the festive period after he found his home ransacked and burgled on Monday 13 December.
“They completely turned this house upside down,” he said.
“It was horrible. It looked like a movie set.
“There’s not one drawer that hasn’t been gone through.
“It’s stuffed our Christmas up, that’s for sure.” Thieves unwrapped and stole Christmas presents for his two teenage daughters and a new 42-inch television, iPods, shoes, DVDs, and his daughter’s debutante ball jewellery.
They tore down posters from his daughters’ bedroom walls, used their bedding to wrap the TVs and left muddy footprints on their beds.
“They just wrecked everything,” he said. Steve says his girls’ bedrooms are painted pink and he has photographs of them throughout the house.
“They knew two young girls lived there. They just did not care,” he said. “I’m just so thankful my girls weren’t home.”
His 17-year-old had already finished school for the year.
“She sleeps like a brick and it’s very rare that she wasn’t home at that time,” he said.
His 12-year-old couldn’t sleep that night. “It’s the violation,” he said. “To know that they’ve come here and been so detailed going through everything.”
The thieves smashed their way inside through a flyscreen.