Posted on 12/21/2013 10:14:08 AM PST by Morgana
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -
It's a problem some churches didn't know how to handle until now. One security company is using its power to partner with a symbol that needs a little help this holiday season.
Each year, Baby Jesus figurines are stolen from nativity scenes across the country. Now, church owners are fighting back.
A GPS device is put inside the doll to prevent theft.
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And you would have plenty of time to ponder how well it worked, while you sit in prison.
Use one of those invisible dog fence systems and put some of those dye packs the banks use in the doll.
Oblomov we are Christians, not Moose-limbs, okay? We don’t blow up people who steal our Baby Jesus.
Maybe the dye pack but not high explosives.
No one jokes on the internet. It’s serious business.
But, in the case of the Baby Jesus thefts they could make the ink red signifying the blood Jesus spilled for the thief's sins.
Just so the theif will make the appropriate connection between his act and the true consequence of his theft.
Apparently "following the star" no longer works re locating the infant!
High explosives would also work.
I kind of like the idea of rigging a set of sprayers loaded with marking dye and essence of skunk to nail the “pranksters” when the remove the baby Jesus. Not quite like putting them in the stocks but would beat the hell out of a scarlet letter.
Just make the figurines out of Neutronium. They’ll be too heavy to move.
I think they should use it as an opportunity to speak with the teens about the real meaning of the season. Pasting knocks on the door - we know you have it but we forgive you may we come in and chat ...
That’s it! I forbid you two from watching any more Road Runner cartoons!
That’s it! I forbid you two from watching any more Road Runner cartoons!
But why? My idea is not physically harmful and yet would prove to be an effective deterrent, well as long as there are neutralizers for the odor and dye that hit unwanted targets. And I will have you know that Roadrunner cartoons are a magnitude of order better than the current crop of “children’s” cartoons.
Way back in chaplain days, we had a team working at a military community in Germany that consisted of a few of us chaplains and a few contract religious education directors. One of the RE directors was a nun, Sister Gerri. Christmas would roll around, and we protestants would decorate the offices and the grounds....lights, trees, nativity.
We would set up the full nativity. Each year Sister Gerri would chastise us for having baby Jesus in the manger because “he hadn’t been born yet.” It was all in good fun.
Then Gerri would swipe the baby. The first few years he wouldn’t reappear until Christmas when she replaced him in the manger.
The 3rd year we messed with her and bought a new baby for the manger. Undeterred, she swiped that one, too.
We laughed at her, and told her that now she had to choose the true Jesus .... both of which had presented to her by Protestants.
Baby Jesus should not appear in a creche nativity scene until Christmas has arrived, December 25. And the 3 kings and their gifts should not be there until January 6.
If people would follow these guidelines it might cut down some of the theft
“And I will have you know that Roadrunner cartoons are a magnitude of order better than the current crop of “children’s” cartoons.”
Where you the one who wanted to be a “Road Runner” when he grew up? Or a Pssshychrist?
http://www.trilulilu.ro/video-animatie/adventures-of-the-road-runner
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