{"id":81939,"date":"2025-12-09T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81939\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:35:08","slug":"watch-man-rips-christmas-lights-off-tree-outside-dallas-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81939\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Man rips Christmas lights off tree outside Dallas business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/id6ed6crgddupm90.jpg\" alt=\"Man rips Christmas lights off tree in Dallas\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Dallas police need help finding a holiday Grinch who destroyed a Christmas light display outside a small business.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Video shows a man pulling the lights from a tree near Simply Bella in the Bishop Arts District. The store is located on the corner of North Bishop Avenue and Melba Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Employees said it happened around 2 a.m. on Saturday, just hours after the store spent $780 to have the lights installed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Thankfully, a Good Samaritan has already helped to repair the lights for free.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-bishop-arts-simply-bella-lights-destroyed_00.00.52.06.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">In a social media post about the video, Simply Bella called the incident heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;Every dollar matters for small businesses\u2014especially in this economy. We pour everything we have into creating something special for this community, and moments like this are heartbreaking,&#8221; the store said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">FOX 4 talked to employees who said it makes the neighborhood feel less safe.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;We want our employees to feel safe. We want our coworkers to feel safe when they&#8217;re closing up shop, going home. And then you see people destroying property late at night. People are drinking, doing what they\u2019re doing, having fun, but that&#8217;s not fun. That&#8217;s not Christmas spirit. That\u2019s just someone that thinks that acting like a child is fun to do at the ripe age of 40,&#8221; Aaron Hughes said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The store is hoping someone will recognize the vandal and report the person to the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information for this story comes from the Dallas Police Department, Simply Bella, and interviews with store employees.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holidays<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Dallas police need help finding a holiday Grinch who destroyed a Christmas light display outside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,1972,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-81939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-holidays","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}