A real-life Grinch, who tried to steal Christmas, was robbed of their holiday-heist fun thanks to Apple AirTags.
Texas mom Nyssa Galvan led police to the Yuletide thieves who swiped an army of inflatable Christmas decorations from her front lawn by tracking down the items with her Bluetooth locators.
“We put trackers on our inflatables,” said Galvan, 29, in her trending TikTok clip, which has fetched over 8.2 million views in two days.
“Putting these bad boys on my Christmas inflatables because my neighbor’s were stolen over the weekend,” she added of the $29 device in closed-captions.
In the viral video, Galvan claims her trio of supersized blow-up baubles — featuring a larger-than-life inflated Grinch, his dog Max and a decked-out Christmas tree — were nabbed at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.
She even shared home-surveillance footage proving that the puffy decorations had mysteriously disappeared from her property during the wee hours of the morning.
But, the grubby-pawed Grinch didn’t get far with Galvan outdoor ornaments.
Using the AirTags, which were linked to the “Find My” app on her smart phone, Galvan stalked her missing adornments, tracing them to a nearby residence.
“We went to the address of the trackers and called the cops,” the digital detective penned in her TikTok.
However, despite finding her inflatables alongside a host of other presumably stolen Christmas doodads, Galvan said law enforcement was unable to recover the goods.
“[The residents] didn’t answer their door so [the police] couldn’t just go busting down their door,” she explained in the comments section of her post.
Commentators urged Galvan to take justice into her own hands, advising: “Steal them back bro. What are they gonna do call the cops?,” and saying “I would’ve knifed all those inflatables lmao ain’t no one enjoying my stuff.”
But, without having to commit a Christmastime crime, Galvan revealed that she was finally able to restore her holly-jolly bijoux to their rightful home by the next day.
“The Grinch back,” she captioned an update clip Wednesday. “Put trackers on y’all’s inflatables.”
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