‘Heart-wrenching’: Family’s motorhome stolen from front yard just days after buying it

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A New Brunswick family’s summer plans have hit a roadblock. Their motorhome was stolen from their front yard less than a week after it was purchased.

Angelina Flynn said she and her husband saved for more than a year to purchase the recreational vehicle, hoping to take their children on several trips throughout the province this summer.

She described the purchase as a “dream” for her family, until it quickly became a nightmare, when they awoke on Monday morning to find their newly purchased home-on-wheels was nowhere to be found.

“People can steal a lot of things from your property but when they steal your dream, it’s heart-wrenching,” she said during an interview with Global News on Tuesday.

The family paid about $10,000 for the vehicle. It had only been on their property for five days before it was stolen.

“We’ve spent the weekend enjoying each other’s company, playing cards, cleaning it, and moving our belongings into it. I’m just so grateful that I didn’t let my children sleep in the motor home on Sunday night,” she said.

Flynn, who lives on a farm in the rural community of Cornhill, said she’s in disbelief that someone was able to steal the 33-foot vehicle while maneuvering around the tractor parked in her driveway. She said her children are heartbroken that the new family camper has disappeared.

She said her husband thought she was joking when she first questioned him on the whereabouts of the motorhome.

“I looked out the window as I was making my children sandwiches and I said to my husband ‘Where’s the motorhome?’ and he thought that I had moved it,” she explained. “But it was really gone.”

Flynn said the family remembered to lock the vehicle every night since parking it on their property, except for overnight