Police in Eureka, California have opened a hate crime investigation after the home vandalism of a local gay couple. Brian Kleinmeyer and Daniel Kain woke up to find their handmade Christmas yard decorations torn down and smeared with feces.The Lost Coast Outpost reports that Kleinmeyer and Kain discovered the attack on Wednesday morning.
Kleinmeyer noticed that a decoration of two gingerbread men holding hands had been torn from the ground, and placed next to the couple’s pride flag.
A closer examination revealed that vandals had also smeared the gingerbread men with feces.“Last night, somebody came to our home on Myrtle, and wiped feces all over our Gingerbread Men,” Kleinmeyer wrote on Facebook.