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Offline rangerrebew

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LI thieves swipe $50K worth of Christmas gifts meant for needy children: 'I just started crying'
« on: December 25, 2025, 06:43:20 am »

LI thieves swipe $50K worth of Christmas gifts meant for needy children: 'I just started crying'
Story by David Propper • 17h

Cruel-hearted Long Island thieves swiped $50,000 in Christmas toys meant for hundreds of needy kids, said the weeping head of the nonprofit running the charity.

Toys of Hope in Huntington said it was about to start doling out the gifts to children across downstate New York when the kindly dose of much-needed holiday cheer was stolen from a parking lot Friday night into Saturday.

“I immediately pulled up, and I thought I was imagining things — I just started crying,” group founder Melissa Doktofsky told The Post on Tuesday.
 
“I was gut-punched, my heart ripped open. I could not believe what I was seeing.”

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Re: LI thieves swipe $50K worth of Christmas gifts meant for needy children: 'I just started crying'
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2025, 06:44:57 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on December 25, 2025, 06:43:20 am
  stolen from a parking lot Friday night into Saturday.

In NYC, what did she think would happen? *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: LI thieves swipe $50K worth of Christmas gifts meant for needy children: 'I just started crying'
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2025, 02:43:11 am »
Security would have been a plus...Armed security, even better.
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Re: LI thieves swipe $50K worth of Christmas gifts meant for needy children: 'I just started crying'
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2025, 04:36:25 pm »
Huntington is about 20 miles east of NYC on Long Island.

I used to visit someone there in the '80's. It seemed ok then, though my friend said there were a few rough areas. Must have grown worse since...
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