Don't open your Christmas presents early --it could get you arrested!
Let's talk about that!
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- Good Mythical Morning! - It's Christmas time, y'all,
and everybody's distracted by those trees and lights and presents.
It's the perfect time for a criminal mastermind to strike.
Uh, it's actually true. There are a lot of crimes committed over the holiday season
but I don't think that these are actual masterminds, as evidenced by some of the
ridiculous crimes that people have committed around Christmas time.
Especially not the ones that we're gonna talk about right now.
Colorado Springs, in 2014, Carrie Carley and her husband Jeremy Lewallen
were arrested for stealing $2,000 worth of Christmas decorations
- from their neighbor's yard. - Oh!
- Here's the couple. - (Rhett) Oh. They look industrious.
(Rhett) They look like they could use some decorations.
The word "mastermind" does not come to mind for these two.
They look like-- yeah, there's a lot of good decisions they make together.
So how were they caught? They put up all the stolen decorations in their own yard.
Well of course! Where else are they gonna put 'em?
- (laughs) - That's what they're for, they're for them!
So all the neighbors-- like, "Uh, uh, that was mine. Yesterday it was in my yard
and today it's in your yard." Carrie, her story was, she had nothing to do with it.
- Of course. - She was quoted as saying,
"Every morning he'd go out for a walk at like 2 or 3--" 2 or 3 AM, I guess--
"And then there was just more stuff in the yard."
- Yeah! You do the math. - I don't know.
- I can't! - (all laugh)
I bet she can do a little bit of math. Um, here's a note: Jeremy was previously
arrested for stealing Halloween decorations.
- Oh, okay. - So yeah, he just loves plastic yard art.
- He's always in the spirit. - Any time of the year.
- Carrie is 42 years old; Jeremy is 18. - Oh, good for him!
- So um... - (all laugh)
So, I don't know if she was influencing him and then... but when he was confronted
by the police, it was reported that Jeremy, quote, "chuckled."
- (both laugh) - Yeah, I did put up the decorations
- in my yard... - It's pretty cool, though, in'it?
- Look at the yard. - Kinda obvious what I did there.
Carrie was released early. Jeremy spent Christmas morning behind bars and the
- next 6 months. Eat it, Jeremy. - Okay.
- They didn't make him eat the decorations. - Stealing Christmas decorations is one
thing, but what about the crime of setting up decorations? You can leave that to
44-year-old Terry Trent of Vandalia--? Vandalia, Ohio.
- Sure! - Back in Christmas 2011, he let himself
in the back of Tamara or Ta-MER-a... I'm gonna say Tamara-- Henderson's home.
- He "let himself" in the back? - Yeah.
- Okay. He broke in. - Yeah, well, apparently it was, you know,
not forced entry, but he wasn't supposed to be there. But he did leave a wreath on
the door that he came in. That was a nice touch. And then he proceeded to deck the
- halls with boughs of holly. - I didn't know people actually did that.
- That means "decorate for Christmas." - Okay, okay.
I was just using a euphemism which, for a lot of my life I thought that meant put
- Holly's intestines all over the place. - Ew. Bowels, I get it.
- Ew, gosh. - Just has to ruminate there.
Okay, so he decorates the house, then he sits down on the couch, turns on the
- television... at which point-- - Gotta watch that Judge Judy! It's time!
Tamara's 11-year-old son, who thinks he's home alone, hears the TV going and he goes
- out and sees a man watching Judge Judy. - (laughs)
and he calls his mom who then proceeds to call the cops. In the meantime, while
he's looking at Terry, Terry notices the little boy and he sees him and he says,
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I'll get my things and go."
- He's a proper, proper infiltrator. - He's the decorator!
- He's just a decorator. - (dramatically) The decorator!
But it turns out... why did Terry do this? Did he know these people? Was he trying
to serve them? Was he really into Christmas spirit?
- I wanna know. - No, apparently he got a Christmas
present early and opened it up. It was bath salts.
- (crew laughs) - That'll do it!
And he ate them or snorted them or whatever you do.
- He didn't take a bath with them, okay. - Yeah.
- His problem. - Keep 'em in the bath, Terry!
Again going back to last year South Johnstone, Australia-- Going down under
for this one Rhett, they celebrate the Christmas down there-- a man looks out
his window and sees four women stealing his plastic candy cane yard decorations.
- Again with the yard decoration stealing! - Yep. It happens.
But these four women were dressed in nuttin' but bikinis.
- Oh, wow. - Bikini-cladded ladies.
- (mocking) Bikini cladded ladies! - Bikini-cladded ladies stealing your
candy cane. So, obviously he chases them. It is unclear...
- For the candy canes? - why he was chasing them exactly.
But apparently, four girls in bikinis is not enough motivation for this guy to turn
on the juice. He did not catch them, and they fled across a nearby football oval
- and vanished. - What's a football oval?
In Australia, that's what the story said. "Football oval." Soccer fields are
rectangular. I Googled that. I actually Googled in prep for this,
"What is the shape of a soccer field in Australia?"
- Rectangular? - and it just said "rectangle" so I don't
know what's up. The group of neighbors searched the area for the missing lights
the next day and the women. They did not find them and these women are still at large.
- Really? - But I don't think they're large women.
I'm just gonna clarify that. I thought it could be like a Cinderella situation if
one of them dropped a top... so then it's like... you're like, "No, it won't fit."
- (chuckles) - "It won't fit... it won't...
You must acquit!" I dunno how it works. That's my Australian accent.
But the thing is that-- yeah, but you want to fit the slipper when you're Cinderella.
You don't want the top to fit when you're a bikini bandit.
No you don't. You want it to be a little small, is that what you're saying?
- (crew laughs) - I don't know how you want a bikini to fit.
You know what? I've worn a bikini many times on this show.
Sadly. I have thought, "You know what? I should steal something while in this
bikini." Nothing's more liberating than wearing a bikini and stealing candy canes.
I'll leave that to you. In 2006, 12-year-old Brandon Jones was warned by his
Momma to not open up your presents before Christmas, boy!
- Okay. - But he did it anyway. He opened up a
Nintendo Game Boy Advance, which I don't know if he's a student of irony...
He's like, "I'm gonna open this up in advance!"
(laughs) I'm sure he was. But he didn't know what it was.
I think it was just a coincidence. So he hides the Game Boy and tells his parents
- that he can't find it. - Okay. Classic move.
This is not gonna work Brandon! Brandon, this is not gonna work!
So his mom did what any good mother would do: she called the cops, had Brandon
- cuffed and taken downtown! - Woah!
I don't know if it was downtown, but it was to the station, which... I would like
to address my children, because Shepherd, just the other day, was sneaking around in
the guest room where we have the mail that Santa sent, early, and is in boxes and he
was in there snooping around. And let me tell you, Shepherd: I know sometimes you
watch the show. Son, if I see you in that room again I'm going to put you in prison.
Just like Brandon's Mom. Now the reason that Brandon's Mom did this is because
he had a little bit of a track record. He was caught stealing from the teacher's
- desk in kindergarten... - He's a track star?
He was constantly being suspended from school and then he arrested in 6th grade
- for trying to hit a police officer. - Oh. Okay.
So this was maybe called for. And Brandon was quoted as saying, "I plan on changing
my attitude and working on my behavior, because I know that my Mom wants the best
for me and I'm trying to make it happen." But that Game Boy Advance though!
(laughs) Yeah, and the people at the jail wrote the letter for him. All right, one
really good one for ya: 2011, Chestertown Maryland, Frosty the Snowman was struttin'
his stuff down Main Street in the local Christmas parade at 10 AM.
By 10:15, he was in cuffs. Frosty was walking across an intersection when
Police Officer James Walker was doing traffic control with his canine--
- that's a dog-- named Henzo. - Henzo!
- Unrelated to Enzo. - No, I think that's how dog relations work.
- (both) If your names rhyme, you're related. - Yeah, that's it.
- And we speak in unison about it. - You're related! Okay.
- I tried to but it didn't work. - It didn't work. It's true.
Apparently, Frosty don't like dogs, because he kicked the dog in the head
in front of the cop, which is stupid. So the cop escorts Frosty out of the
parade and away from the crowd and that's when things get crazy.
Listen to what happens: Frosty pulls off his head!
- What?! - - Yes! And hits officer Walker
- across the face with it! - Pulls his head off?!
Yes! But then it turns out Frosty is just a 50-year-old guy named Kevin Walsh.
- Oh, Kevin! - From Chestertown.
- Okay. That clears things up. - He participated in the parade for the
last 10 years, and as they were shoving him in the car, husbands and women
and mothers and kids and all types of normal people...
- Husbands and women! - (crew laughs)
- Everybody! - ... were watching. Kids, mostly,
were watching Frosty-- headless Frosty!-- being put in the truck.
- Yeah, that ruins Christmas for everybody. - He was screaming,
- "You have no right to arrest me!" - He's Frosty the Snowman!
- "I'm Frosty the Snowman!" - He's just gonna melt in the backseat
- anyway before you get him downtown. - (laughs) He was released on
personal recognizance, and I don't even know what that means for a snowman.
Okay, well, if you're thinking of committing a crime this Christmas,
- you have some great examples to follow. - Don't consult with us, but
- do like, comment and subscribe. - That's right. You know what time it is!
- I'm Nathan! - I'm Dylan!
- I'm Madison! - And I am the Snow Queen!
And we're from Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Yeah, here it is! It zips and it unzips. Click through to Good Mythical More
where we're gonna share our adventures in holiday decoration-ing.
(Rhett) Rhett and Link are opposite magnets.
Hey bro bring it in, bring it in. Merry Christmas. We're gonna Christmas Hug.
You gonna north it up? You gonna north it up?
Christmas hug. Just wanna give you a Christmas hug.
- I'm gonna north it up. - (both) Whoah!
- Hey, come in this way. - Hey!
(both grunting)
Get it! Bring it!
Bring iiiiit! Bring it iiiiiiin!
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