Baby Jesus Stolen From Church Nativity Scene Near Crystal City

[Pharlo]

2. I have no idea why anyone would abduct the Baby Jesus. Now, if it had been the Virgin Mary...

... Little Johnny wanted a bike for Christmas. He really, Really, REALLY wanted a bike. He told everyone he could think of - his mother, his father, aunts, uncles, both sets of grandparents - everyone. He was not quite certain if there was really a Santa Claus - he'd heard rumors, but his parents kept telling him to ask Santa. So, just to be certain, little Johnny sat down to write a letter to Santa:

"Dear Santa, I was a very good boy this year..." He stopped, thought a minute and remembered that Santa knows if you've been good or bad, so he ripped the sheet off his pad and began again -

"Dear Santa, I was a good boy this year..." Once again, he stops, thinks, rips off the page, throws it away and tries again...

"Dear Santa, I was a pretty good boy this year..." At this point, little Johnny is frustrated and throws his pad of paper across the room. He thinks a minute, runs outside to the church at the corner. There, Johnny grabs the Virgin Mary from the Nativity Set and runs home with the statuette. He sneaks the Virgin Mary into his bedroom, shoves her under the bed, picks up his notebook and starts a new letter...

"Dear God, if you EVER want to see your mother again..."