I
don't know if you are aware of this, but around this time of year
there's typically a rash of stolen baby Jesus stories. Pranksters (I
love that word) make off with baby Jesus out of nativity scenes all
over the country, and often there's a sort of cat-and-mouse game where
nativity scene keepers try and devise methods of preventing the infant
savior from disappearing. Well, after a Florida town's Jesus went
missing from the founder's circle nativity scene despite being bolted
down (Mission Impossible 12 anyone?) a Jewish attorney in
Cincinnati donated a new figure, and this time the scene keeper has
taken unusual precautions to protect him from disappearing again. In
addition to erecting a plexiglass screen in front of the display,
people in the town raised money to do something else. Can you guess
what? I'll give you a hint: Once the season is over, someone could
probably get extra use out of the figure by afixing him to the
dashboard of a car, perhaps next to a plastic adult version of his holy
self.
Yep, the townsfolk raised money to...
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