The blonde-haired, blue-eyed, baby Jesus has been liberated again this year from its Basin Park mooring in a Eureka Springs nativity scene that has become a target of holiday pranks from many Christmases past.
The most noteworthy nab came from 70-year old Virginia Voiers who was tempted by her granddaughter to continue the tradition. She made national TV.
As might be expected in Eureka, the town soon lined up, vehemently pro and con, after carriage man Tom Tharpe reported the theft.
One of the most indignant was the sorority which had originally sponsored the scene. They raised money to install a video camera to catch future culprits in flagrante delicto.
It didn’t work. Nor did the concrete block the baby was tied to keep it from being stolen again this year.
The video camera caught someone in a grey hoodie but that’s all.
Detective Morris Pate, who has ruined his career as a credible police witness because of evidence he had that did not reach the court in the City’s case against the Hell’s Angels, has now become the stolen baby spokesperson for the cop shop– er, make that for the majority of Eureka residents.
Pate has been quoted in the AR Dem Gazette, saying that those who think the prank is funny are in the minority.
He and Mayor Dani Joy, along with once-Council candidate Mickey Schneider, seem to have incredible abilities to read majority public opinion, they all three claim.
Schneider lost a run for Council; the people of Eureka are beginning to catch on to Joy. And now Pate, having lost legal credibility, chines in with his reading of the nabbing.
Baby Jesus Nabbed Again
The blonde-haired, blue-eyed, baby Jesus has been liberated again this year from its Basin Park mooring in a Eureka Springs nativity scene that has become a target of holiday pranks from many Christmases past.
The most noteworthy nab came from 70-year old Virginia Voiers who was tempted by her granddaughter to continue the tradition. She made national TV.
As might be expected in Eureka, the town soon lined up, vehemently pro and con, after carriage man Tom Tharpe reported the theft.
One of the most indignant was the sorority which had originally sponsored the scene. They raised money to install a video camera to catch future culprits in flagrante delicto.
It didn’t work. Nor did the concrete block the baby was tied to keep it from being stolen again this year.
The video camera caught someone in a grey hoodie but that’s all.
Detective Morris Pate, who has ruined his career as a credible police witness because of evidence he had that did not reach the court in the City’s case against the Hell’s Angels, has now become the stolen baby spokesperson for the cop shop– er, make that for the majority of Eureka residents.
Pate has been quoted in the AR Dem Gazette, saying that those who think the prank is funny are in the minority.
He and Mayor Dani Joy, along with once-Council candidate Mickey Schneider, seem to have incredible abilities to read majority public opinion, they all three claim.
Schneider lost a run for Council; the people of Eureka are beginning to catch on to Joy. And now Pate, having lost legal credibility, chines in with his reading of the nabbing.
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