Oh? I have vinyl siding so there's no way staples would work LOL. I went out after my comment to check and see what actually was stolen and turns out they only took the projector/spotlight we had shining on the wall of the house that projected "Merry Christmas" on the front of our house. Everything else was left untouched for whatever reason. They didn't even take the 12V adapter for the unit (one of those wall wart things) so it's useless to them (unless they buy a new wall wart). I had the wallwart in a ziploc bag since it was rated for dry location use only (despite being the OEM adapter for an outdoor-use-only spot light. Go figure...). I hammered a 2X2 wood baluster into the ground and the spotlight thing went over it and you turned a thumbscrew to lock it onto the baluster. I taped the bagged adapter to the baluster and had the extension cord come out of the bag back over to the house.
From what I can tell, the crook had yanked the thing out of the ground and took off with it, still all plugged in. There was quite a bot of slack on the cord, but I had actually weaved the extension cord around the railing at our front steps so the cord must've gotten tangled so they just cut the bagged wallwart & extension cord off and took off with the actual spotlight. There were a few thinks knocked over in the yard, likely caused by the "struggle" with the extension cord. I just wish I caught them and had an airsoft gun to scare them off with or hurt them (but not kill them and not injure them severely; the sting of an airsoft pellet would be enough to send them off running; nothing in my yard is worth enough to stick around after that lol)
I want to know why someone took it. Like, what's the point? It's not like it's a big expensive thing. We've had it for years but this was the first year we had put it out. I'm so pissed someone took it. Nothing worse that knowing someone was trespassing on your property and vandalized it, even though it was our front yard (not like they hopped a fence or something, but still, the fact that it happened in my suburban neighborhood is a little disconcerting). I keep looking out my window every ten minutes or so to see if anything else goes missing. I noticed my neighbors-across-the-street's light-up snowman also went missing. Not sure if they took it inside and I didn't notice til today or if it got stolen as well. They do still have xmas lights on one of their trees so I assume they were robbed as well.