Posted on 03/22/2025 2:05:33 PM PDT by Morgana
Ben Gerrard had just sat down for Sunday lunch when he got a text from his friend Kurt that began to unravel a bizarre small-town crime spree.
'My pride flag got stolen last night, did yours?'
Gerrard was out of town, so he checked his doorbell camera to see if the LGBTQ flag was still flying from the porch of his house in Chestertown, Maryland.
His was gone too. Mystified, he wound his Ring doorbell footage back until 12.41am and caught the heist in action.
The footage showed two teenagers run up the steps, unhook the flag, and sprint back to a waiting pickup truck, laughing and hollering as they fled.
Kurt's neighbor caught the flag bandits in action and described the same scene - drunk teens noisily rolling up in a truck, grabbing the flag, and screeching off into the night.
The teens were 'quite loud and disturbing' and they heard the sounds of 'crunching' and 'things being thrown', according to police reports.
The witness even 'heard the suspects egging each other on throughout the incident'.
Before long, Gerrard and Kurt discovered they were far from the only victims in the tiny town of just 5,500 on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Nine residents, including the local Episcopal church, reported their flags and other rainbow items stolen, and some had their yards vandalized.
Police didn't take long to track the thieves down - they had security footage, the witness' descriptions, and a ping from a license plate reader.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Oh the horrors of living in these days, when people steal Pride flags and say “Ni!” to old women at will!
They’re anti-Christian “pro pervert “ flags
Scare tactic headlines. Terrorized?
Some of the worst terrorism I have seen in years... too bad they aren’t foreign college students from the middle east battering Jewish American students on college campuses. Then the story would have never been reported on.
Slow news day apparently.
They must’ve thought it was a Tesla.
lol... the “Amish” actually did it this time.
Scare tactic headlines. Terrorized?
Terrorized By Amish Amish, not the BLM burn loot murder Amish. Oooooh scared.
😱 What?
Maybe we need a new definition for the word.
I thought burning flags was good?
Well, from the story, I’m thinking “queer Maryland town”
I’m only slightly familiar with the idea of Rumspringa. But I did not think it involved committing crimes. And yes, theft is a crime.
Their not dressed like the Amwish I know.
Next thing you know they'll be staging wet bonnet contests.
I don’t see a problem here.
“My pronouns are ‘Thee/Thou’”.
First problem is that they were driving a pickup truck. If it had said horse and buggy i might have believed it..
It was a long way from Pennsylvania to Maryland. They hitchhiked with an unruly Presbyterian.
And the Episcopal church too. Imagine that.
Depending on the type of Amish, wearing ‘English’ clothes can be part of rumspringa. So can driving a car.
Unfortunately, some of them get into dangerous stuff.
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