{"id":3504,"date":"2019-12-07T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:28:05","slug":"madera-holiday-house-vandalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-holiday-house-vandalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera holiday house vandalized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the past 15 years, Jeff Cox has been decorating his house at the corner of Lemon Tree and Almond for the holidays, but most importantly Christmas.<\/p>

However, a \u2018Scrooge\u2019 almost took the Christmas spirit from Cox by vandalizing three inflatables on Nov. 29 in front of his house.<\/p>

\u201cThey did it really early at night at 8 p.m.,\u201d he said. \u201cI was still up and my daughter happened to look out and see the inflatables deflated.\u201d<\/p>

Cox has been putting out displays for the past 15 years, but this is the first time he has had his decorations vandolized.<\/p>

\u201cThis is the first time it has been vandalized like that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had stuff knocked over before and little stuff stolen. Nothing like this. That Santa and reindeer are over 16-foot long and over $200. The other was a Mickey on reindeer. That\u2019s one of my favorites and don\u2019t want to get rid it.\u201d<\/p>

Cox has video footage of the vandal maliciously cutting through three inflatables in his yard and even tripping over Christmas lights on his way out of his yards. He believes that it\u2019s the same person that vandalized a Thanksgiving turkey inflatable and another inflatable on Nov. 16.<\/p>

\u201cHe was wearing different clothes,\u201d Cox said. \u201c I want this guy caught or stopped. Somebody knows this guy.\u201d<\/p>

Cox\u2019s story got out to ABC-30, who did a segment with Cox on Monday. According to ABC-30, his story was picked by an affiliate in Los Angeles. Cox said that his story was even a topic on a local radio show.<\/p>

\u201cI felt violated,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Christmas spirit was gone. I was thinking about taking everything down and putting a Grinch out there. I even bought a Grinch.\u201d<\/p>

However, some \u2018elves\u2019 dropped by his house the other night to rekindle his Christmas spirit.<\/p>

\u201cWe had some people come over tonight and they brought us candy and a card,\u201d Cox said. \u201cIt had money and they talked about how their kids drive by all the time. It makes you feel really good and get the Christmas spirit back. My wife was crying. To have a whole family come to door and give you money to repair things was great. It\u2019s amazing to hear about the people and how they are talking about.\u201d<\/p>

Although the vandal may have damaged the inflatables, Cox said he will do what he can to rescue them.<\/p>

\u201cThank God I\u2019m old enough and know how to sew,\u201d he said.<\/p>

Cox has sewed up the inflatable that was damaged on Nov. 16 and is contemplating what and when to put out more Christmas decorations.<\/p>

\u201cI haven\u2019t decided what to do,\u201d he said. \u201cI am not going to do the workshop in the garage this year. I\u2019ll put up more and get some more out this weekend. \u201cIt\u2019s so stressful keeping an eye on it all the time. It\u2019s usually done the weekend after Thanksgiving. Our trees are getting so big that the leaves are making a mess. The leaves come down and it doesn\u2019t look good.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past 15 years, Jeff Cox has been decorating his house at the corner of Lemon Tree and Almond for the holidays, but most importantly Christmas. However, a \u2018Scrooge\u2019 almost took the Christmas spirit from Cox by vandalizing three inflatables on Nov. 29 in front of his house. \u201cThey did it really early at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[41,43],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-holiday","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}