{"id":389525,"date":"2026-07-07T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389525\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:55:08","slug":"thief-rides-giraffe-while-stealing-donations-outside-thrift-store-in-easton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389525\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief rides giraffe while stealing donations outside thrift store in Easton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A bizarre theft outside a thrift store involved a suspect riding a giraffe while taking donated items left in front of Small Town Thrift Store in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>The store owner said the thief was stealing donations from in front of the business around 9 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I confronted him about stealing my donations from in front of my store, he said they shouldn&#8217;t have donated them at night,\u201d the owner said.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess he&#8217;s entitled to stuff that gets left out at night.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, a pickup pulled up and took more items.<\/p>\n<p>Small Town Thrift is located at 5654 S. Elm Ave., just off Highway 41 in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/crime\/6k-worth-of-lottery-tickets-stolen-during-armed-robbery-at-visalia-smoke-shop-kingz-smoke-shop-north-ben-maddox-way-visalia-police-department-investigation-suspects-wanted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$6K worth of lottery tickets taken during armed robbery at Visalia smoke shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/small-town-thrift-109640.square.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to visit Small Town Thrift online.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/smalltownthriftstore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow on Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A bizarre theft outside a thrift store involved a suspect riding a giraffe while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-389525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}