TWO CHILDREN, aged seven and three, were left gutted after vandals smashed their Halloween pumpkins in the middle of the night.
Jimmy Street said his daughters, Daisy and Phoebe, “love” carving pumpkins for the season and were left sad when they saw the damage.
The girls carved the pumpkins on October 24 and just two days later they were destroyed outside their home on Haymoor Road, Poole.
“I have sensors in my house, which are quite loud,” said Jimmy.
“I was in my daughter’s bedroom so I didn’t hear it, but my wife did and sent it to me so I found out the next day.”
The incident was caught on a Ring doorbell showing two teenagers grab the pumpkins and run away, before smashing them further down the road.
“I get kids can be kids, but the look on my daughters’ faces in the morning was gutting.”
Jimmy told the girls that a fox had eaten their pumpkins, in hopes of making them less upset.
“They put a lot of work into them, they did cat faces with bat wings, they were quite impressive.”
He added that other residents also had their pumpkins destroyed on the same road.
However, Jimmy helped Daisy and Phoebe decorate new pumpkins and instead placed them on their garage roof so they could not be reached.
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