Bizarre thefts of clown decorations from yards tied to LSU fraternity

BATON ROUGE – Members of an LSU fraternity returned stolen Halloween decorations to homes around campus after frustrated homeowners found decorations gone from their yards this week.

LSU said it is investigating.

It appears the decorations were stolen late Tuesday night. Homeowners found the decorations missing Wednesday morning.

When someone returned a 12-foot inflatable clown from a home in the Riverbend neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, the decoration thieves said they had been returning stolen items since 6 o’clock Wednesday morning.

Thursday LSU told WBRZ it had been made aware of the decorations being taken and set up at a fraternity house on campus.

In a video posted on Instagram, one homeowner said he took it upon himself to investigate where the decorations went when he found his missing early Wednesday.

“Let’s see which frat house it was,” Matt Johnson said on the video. Johnson said when he saw his decorations missing he immediately went to look for the decorations at a fraternity house – figuring it was a late-night prank by members of one of them.

“The first place I look... I found my clown stolen,” Johnson said.

A voice in the background told Johnson someone was going to be returning the clown.

“We’ll get it back to you,” a voice said.

Johnson’s video identified the fraternity as Kappa Sigma. LSU confirmed it was investigating the incident and identified the fraternity.

It appears the fraternity members were specifically after clowns – Johnson’s clown was not the same one stolen from the homeowners in Riverbend.

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