A white van with “FREE CANDY” in writing that appeared to be blood caused a panic in a Sacramento, California neighborhood.
The van had blacked-out windows and streaked hand prints in red paint below the lettering. It didn’t have a license plate.
12-year-old Lawrence Bellow saw in parked outside his house in the Natomas neighborhood and took a picture.
“It looked too fake to be true, but I didn’t want to get a closer look for sure,” he tells CBS 13. “I was kind of nervous about it; I didn’t know what was going on so I just wanted to get evidence in case anything happened.”
He says his mother saw it the day before in a Walmart parking lot. Then it was on her street.
“It had handprints in red and it almost looked like—I think it was supposed to look like blood honestly; it just looked like the handprints were dripping down,” she said. “It just felt like they were trying to track kids and it just gave me a creepy feeling.”
A neighbor reveals she painted the van that way for her journey to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
“It was a joke,” Sierra Deblonk claims.
But many parents weren’t laughing.
“It’s nice to know that if was there actually a creepy white van around that people would be taking notice of that,” Deblonk says.
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