--- title: Men Wearing TVs on Head Leave Old TVs on Over 50 Doorsteps description: When a number of Virginia residents woke up on Aug. 11, they were greeted with the sight of television sets sitting on their doorsteps. canonical: https://time.com/5652006/man-wearing-tv-on-head/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-14T17:32:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:56.250Z og:title: Men Wearing TVs on Head Leave Old TVs on Over 50 Doorsteps og:description: "He wants to be known as the TV Santa Claus" og:url: https://time.com/5652006/man-wearing-tv-on-head/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Men Wearing TVs on Head Leave Old TVs on Over 50 Doorsteps twitter:description: "He wants to be known as the TV Santa Claus" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'TV Santa Claus' Wearing TV on Head Inexplicably Leaves Old TVs on 50 Doorsteps > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 14, 2019 5:32 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 14, 2019 5:32 PM UTC When residents of Henrico County, Va., woke up on Sunday morning, a number of them were greeted with the sight of vintage [television sets](https://time.com/4696648/tv-buying-guide-glossary/) sitting on their doorsteps. But it wasn’t until a few of the recipients checked their [doorbell cameras](https://time.com/5178643/amazon-ring-home-security-doorbell/) that they discovered the mysterious [deliverymen](http://money.com/money/5478747/amazon-is-paying-people-20-an-hour-to-deliver-packages-using-their-own-cars-and-the-competition-is-cutthroat/) made the drops while wearing what looked like old TVs of their own on their heads. Henrico Police Lieutenant Matt Pecka told [WTVR-TV](https://wtvr.com/2019/08/11/tv-man-leaves-vintage-tvs-on-front-porches-wyndham-henrico/) that more than 50 TVs were left at homes throughout the neighborhood by more than one person “wearing a mask resembling a television.” “We determined there was no credible threat to residents and that this was strictly an inconvenience. It was…unique,” [Pecka said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/14/someone-left-old-tvs-outside-homes-virginia-while-wearing-tv-his-head-no-one-knows-why/), adding that police were able to round up the TVs in just over an hour on Sunday. The county plans to recycle them. The general sentiment among residents who were gifted with the old box sets seems to be that the nighttime deliveries were part of a prank. Especially considering that [the same thing happened in a nearby Glen Allen neighborhood last August](https://wtvr.com/2018/08/23/more-than-20-vintage-tvs-left-on-henrico-front-porches-its-so-weird/). “Everyone started coming out of their houses, walking around the neighborhood looking at the TVs there on the doorstep,” Jeanne Brooksbank, one of the recipients, told the [_Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/14/someone-left-old-tvs-outside-homes-virginia-while-wearing-tv-his-head-no-one-knows-why/)of Sunday’s incident. “It was very _Twilight Zone_.” “He wants to be known as the TV Santa Claus, I don’t know,” Jeanne’s husband, Jim Brooksbank, [added](https://wtvr.com/2019/08/11/tv-man-leaves-vintage-tvs-on-front-porches-wyndham-henrico/). “I can’t think of any technology or political point that would be valid here. 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