on the lighter side this A.M. - Grandmother Charged In Baby Jesus Theft

[The Straight Story]

Grandmother Charged In Baby Jesus Theft

POSTED: 1:26 am EST December 3, 2005

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- Virginia Voiers thought she was taking part in a rambunctious holiday custom, but a carriage driver thought differently and called police when he saw the 70-year-old grandmother stealing the baby Jesus from the city's nativity scene.

Voiers was ticketed for misdemeanor theft by an officer who quickly caught up with her van after she foisted the statue.

"It was a lark, it wasn't any serious stealing," Voiers told the Lovely County Citizen newspaper of Eureka Springs. "My granddaughter commented that no one had taken the baby Jesus this year and said, 'Grandma?' I said, 'Oh, what the heck.'"

Usually, the baby Jesus is returned by the thief. Voiers said her Saturday caper was the first time she'd taken anything from the nativity.

"I didn't know we had a tattletale downtown," said Voiers, who is also a Sunday school teacher at a Methodist church. She said she told her pastor what happened.

http://www.local6.com/news/5456754/detail.html

[Benhurst]

1. Give her a break. She didn't take the Frosty or other figures

needed to make the display legal.

[rucky]

2. Was there an Amber Alert? n/t

[The Straight Story]

4. I wonder what the response would be :)

"Jesus is missing, note left behind says will return...."

[glitch]

3. There shall be no joking with the baby Jesus! nt