Is baby Jesus missing from your yard?

living_stradivarius · Post by **living_stradivarius** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:36 am

32 baby Jesus dolls found in Ill. yard

Tue Dec 19, 4:28 PM ET

CHICAGO - Dozens of people looking for Jesus can find him at a church on Chicago's South Side. Thirty-two plastic baby Jesus dolls were stolen last week from nativity scenes in people's front yards. Then on Saturday morning a woman found all the missing Jesuses lined up along the fence on her lawn and she gave them to St. Symphorosa Church.

The Rev. Marcel Pasciak said the woman was one of his parishioners at St. Symphorosa and "panicked" when she saw the dolls.

Fourteen of the dolls' rightful owners had claimed them by Tuesday morning.

Pasciak said he thinks teenagers took the baby Jesuses as a joke and not as a religious statement.

"Don't they look funny?" Pasciak said as residents came to claim their decorations. "We're putting Christ back into Christmas literally and metaphorically."

Not everyone took the thefts lightly.

"You put things out and it's to express your beliefs, to celebrate your faith with your community," said Carol Angiollo, whose baby Jesus was among those taken. "To have someone violate that is really disheartening."

People who called police to report a missing doll were directed to the church, said Chicago police spokesman Pat Camden.

"Baby Jesus belongs in a nativity, not in evidence and recovered poverty, which is where they'll wind up if they're not claimed," he said.

Police haven't made any arrests.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_ ... wo_jesuses

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:18 am

Checked my yard-no Jesus dolls but my blowup Pamela Anderson in Christmas garb is still anchored securely.

living_stradivarius · Post by **living_stradivarius** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:16 pm

Not for long...

miranda · Post by **miranda** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:19 pm

But what about the inflatable Dittersdorf in a Santa suit?

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:06 pm

Ralph wrote:Checked my yard-no Jesus dolls but my blowup Pamela Anderson in Christmas garb is still anchored securely.

Post of the Day Award to ya, Ralph!

Do you and Pam watch Boston Legal by any chance?

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:24 pm

My yard? What's a yard? I live in a condo. I don't know from a yard. OK. I do have a patio. No yard, though.

CORLYSS,

I really think miranda should be considered a co-winner of the Post of the Day Award.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:28 pm

Corlyss_D wrote:
Ralph wrote:Checked my yard-no Jesus dolls but my blowup Pamela Anderson in Christmas garb is still anchored securely.

Post of the Day Award to ya, Ralph!

Do you and Pam watch Boston Legal by any chance?

*****

I've never seen the show.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:29 pm

RebLem wrote:My yard? What's a yard? I live in a condo. I don't know from a yard. OK. I do have a patio. No yard, though.

CORLYSS,

I really think miranda should be considered a co-winner of the Post of the Day Award.

*****

Spread some soil on the patio deck.

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:32 pm

RebLem wrote:CORLYSS,

I really think miranda should be considered a co-winner of the Post of the Day Award.

Yikes! You are absolutely right!

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:34 pm

miranda wrote:But what about the inflatable Dittersdorf in a Santa suit?

A rare double award!

Miranda, a Post of the Day Award to you too!

miranda · Post by **miranda** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:25 am

I'm honored.

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