In recent weeks, police across the country have seen an uptick in the theft of trees from commercial lots. In Baytown, Tex., cops caught a man earlier this month trying to take several holiday trees off a lot. In Portland, Ore., police nabbed a man last week dragging a stolen tree down the street around 3 a.m. Officials in Hillsborough County, Fla., are investigating a Christmas tree crime spree, with more than 20 stolen from one lot owner alone.
‘Cause the nativity scenes will look naked without them.
Ha!
On the first day of Holiday, my true love stole for me…
One Nativi- tree…
At least they aren’t stealing them out of the living room on Christmas Eve That happened in Ancaster one time when I was a kid. People came home from the Christmas Eve party or whatever, tree was gone and all the presents. Classic.
As it happens, this year I am cutting one down on the front lawn. Has to come down anyway to make room for the shop building Santa Claus is bringing me, shame to waste it.
Going to be fun to see how Santa gets a ten ton steel building down the chimney. ~:D
Dragging a stolen tree down the road at 3 AM sounds like a great prelude to a Frank Capra movie, in which our protagonist finds the true meaning of “holiday”.
Erik, the true meaning of “holiday”? BWAHAHAHA!!!!!
That’s frickin’ hilarious man! Thanks for making me laugh!
The best Christmas I ever had was beck in the early 1940’s We had no money for gifts nor a christmas tree. The Salvation Army took a bunch of us little urchins out for a Christmas dinner…
and my brother stole a tree from the mayors front yard. He cut it in the middle of the night and brought it home.
It was the most wonderful and beautiful sight I had ever witnessed. Had he been caught he would have faced serious prison time because stealing a Christmas tree is much more dangerous to society than say the millions stolen by the Federal Liberal Party.
he didn’t get caught as it turns out and it was my best Christmas.
“holiday trees”?
On the first day of Holiday, my true love stole for me…
One Nativi- tree…
Now.
The churches need to find someone to make the figurines out of plastique…
Ooops….inside voice dang it!
Those trees aren’t stolen.. They went on holidays.
I remember one time the thieves cut down a whole pile of Christmas trees that had been planted around a highway interchange or some other taxpayer project. 99% of the time these tree nappers are just in it to make a buck or too frikkin’ cheap to buy their own. How they pass that and the shoplifted/stolen in the parking lot presents, as a gift in the spirit of Christmas is beyond me.
“Holiday” is exclusive of atheists. In the spirit (can I say that?) of inclusiveness, I request (and if I was a leftie, I would demand) that we ban the use of the word “holiday”.
I humbly reach out to the SDA community for a more politically correct, more inclusive word to use instead of the now highly obnoxious and probably racist “holiday”.
Shaken:
How about “Christmas?”
Nick a tree for Christmas!
Betcha that puts you on the naughty list!
Looks like Knecht Rupprecht will be getting out the hickory switch just in the “St. Nick” of time!
We usually wandered off into the forest and cut ours down for free. A free service our family provided so the new saplings would come up next spring.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North
How about we really piss off the PC crowd and refer to them as “Jesus Trees”.
Too bad Relic isn’t around anymore. He coulda tracked down those Jesus Trees.
I live in a quiet mature treed rural area, with a frontage of about 350 feet, I planted 12 years ago some Pines and Spruce 2 foot seedlings across the front. I came home from shopping this week and saw a vehicle parked near the end of my property and then a lady emerge with a saw and a number of boughs she had sawn off some of the pines. She quickly departed before I could approach her.
I’ve had a Christmas tree stolen right out front of my door. It just so happened that we put it up and it lost its needles so much that we took it down straight away. I’m sure the stolen tree made a right mess of its new home – hah, hah!
MikeW @12:03
Mustave been that Winchester under your arm scared her off.
MikeW
Let the air out of at least 2 tires the next time. There they will sit til the cops show up with the ride in the back of the cruiser present for the tree stealing/trespassers.
My Ol Pappy taught me that one.
Merry Christmas.
they can steal all the holiday trees they want.
I think the word you’re looking for is ‘festivus’!
On a more positive note, here’s a wonderful story direct from a friend of mine in the U.S.
On a more positive note, here’s a wonderful story direct from a friend of mine in the U.S.
A friend of mine bought up a bunch of Christmas trees in North Carolina and drove them down here to south Florida to resell at a huge mark-up. He had about a truckload left unsold on Christmas Eve, so figured he’d just leave them in an open field in a out-of-the-way corner of southwest Broward County.
As he was about to leave, he was approached by two large unamused gentlemen who “strongly suggested” he might not want to be dumping on the FBI shooting range.
ah well, anyone who feels the need to steal at Christmas doesn’t really get it anyway.
Isn’t “holiday” a corruption of the words “holy day”?