SANDY, Utah — Just like the Grinch who lives atop Mount Crumpit, a few ne'er-do-wells recently caught on camera vandalizing a holiday display outside a Sandy home found that their hearts can also grow three sizes in one day.
Just after 3 a.m. Saturday, home security cameras caught the junior Scrooges as they went after the festive set-up in front of Roger Judd's house on Snowville Drive.
The focus of the group's sour, Grinchy ire appeared to be a 12-foot tall skeleton dressed as Santa Claus, as the video shows a few taking their best shots at the big man in the red suit while others (naturally) had to record it with their phones.
Video shows the skittish group running back and forth several times before ultimately failing in their sad efforts to tumble smash St. Nick. Settling instead to simply decapitate a decorative dog and bending the horn of an innocent plastic reindeer.
However, just like the Grinch learned that perhaps Christmas means a little bit more than decorations, the hooligans soon understood the errors of their ways.
In the early morning hours Tuesday, Judd caught another image on his security camera, that of a person walking up and leaving a letter on his doorstep.
"In Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day," the letter said. "That day is today.
"We are sincearlly (sic) sorry for our actions. We were immature. Here is some cash to repay for damages. Merry Christmas. Sincerely, the grinches."
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Judd shared the letter with FOX 13 News and said he's rearranging his display around the bag of presents that has been re-hung after originally being knocked down, along with a new poem about the "Grinchkins who stole then saved Christmas."
