posted on December 19, 2006 07:19:57 AM
Classic, have you been running the roads again?
Baby Jesus takes wild ride...and has the photos to prove it
(12/19/06 - BUFFALO, NY) - A statue of the baby Jesus is back where it's supposed to be this Christmas -- in John and Joan Leising's yard in Buffalo, New York.
The statue was taken from the Leising's lighted manger last Christmas, and a note said it would be returned in three days.
It was returned eight months later, with a photo album.
Someone had posed the statue in front of Thruway signs in Binghamton, Rochester, Albany and Poughkeepsie. Other photos showed it on a bicycle, on a horse, wearing a seat belt in a car, in a chair next to a campfire, and in someone's kitchen.
A note said the prank wasn't meant to be "blasphemous or disrespectful."
John Leising says the real Jesus would have forgiven the pranksters -- and he does too.
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posted on December 19, 2006 10:30:26 PM
I love pranks like that. When our daughter was in college, there was a rash of stuffed-animal kidnappings.
There'd be an initial note that said something like We. Have. The. Bear. That would be followed by photos of the bear in all sorts of campus and town places. The bear would always be returned--eventually.
