Amelia Posted December 24, 2009 Posted December 24, 2009 Curious crows steal Lakeside Christmas ornaments By JESSICA MUSICAR, The (Coos Bay) World December 23, 2009 ****** LAKESIDE, Ore. (AP) -- When ornaments from two Christmas trees in front of Lakeside City Hall began disappearing earlier this month, Sheli Roe and Ted Ross were upset. There must be some local grinches in the city, they thought. Maybe someone really needed some gifts for their kids. "It's sad, is what you're thinking. It's Christmas and someone would steal Christmas ornaments?" said Roe, a two-year resident of Lakeside. Roe helped Ross, the fire chief of the Lakeside Rural Protection District, decorate one of the six trees traditionally donated by Mountain View Farms each year. She handmade many of the firefighting-themed ornaments. Other volunteers decked out a tree for the senior center hung with recycled prescription pill bottles. They decorated trees for the Parks and Community Garden Club, the Lakeside Chamber of Commerce and the Salmon Trout Enhancement Partnership. Then ornaments disappeared one by one. From the fire tree, toy cars disappeared. Then it was foam badges and tiny red fire hydrants crafted from doweling. Ornaments vanished off the senior tree. Ross began sleuthing. Up the road from City Hall, he found a pill bottle. Later, he came across a toy motorcycle that once adorned the Fire District's tannenbaum. The next evening, he found some unlikely suspects. No one expected the culprits to be short, black and feathery. But Ross saw them. It was a murder (yes, proper for "flock") of crows. "All I could see was something bright red in the crows' feet as they were flying off," Ross said. "That's when we realized that our perpetrators were small black critters." It seems during the recent cold spell, the birds were hungry. Ross guessed the crows thought the bright, sparkling ornaments might be tasty. "A crow is an animal of opportunity. If it sees something it thinks it can eat, it will check it out," the fire chief said. Ross and Roe found the situation to be pretty funny. "One thing, it did do is restore my faith that the kids in Lakeside enjoy the trees as much as we do," he said. "I'm not objectionable to the crows having a few more things for Christmas." Roe said it made her day OK knowing it was crows, especially after having spent dozens of hours making all the decorations. She said she recalled a crow stealing a bright orange egg during this year's Easter egg hunt, but didn't originally put the two cases together. "It never occurred to us that the crows would take little metal cars," Roe said. After learning the news, Roe quickly made new ornaments with craft items she found at home and replenished the tree. This time, though, she tied them on as tightly as she could. "They're going to have to take the whole tree to get them," Roe said, laughing. Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
Members phkrause Posted December 24, 2009 Members Posted December 24, 2009 Wow that's a great story Amelia! pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Guest Posted December 25, 2009 Posted December 25, 2009 Why didn't they put some food out for the crows? Quote
Administrators Tom Wetmore Posted December 26, 2009 Administrators Posted December 26, 2009 Maybe crows just like shiny things... Quote "Absurdity reigns and confusion makes it look good." "Sinless perfection is such a shallow goal." "I love God only as much as the person I love the least." *Forgiveness is always good news. And that is the gospel truth. (And finally, the ideas expressed above are solely my person views and not that of any organization with which I am associated.)
Guest Posted December 26, 2009 Posted December 26, 2009 That's true, they do, but they like to eat also. Quote
Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted December 26, 2009 Members Posted December 26, 2009 They wouldn't try and eat metal though, would they? Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
Members phkrause Posted December 26, 2009 Members Posted December 26, 2009 They wouldn't try and eat metal though, would they? Probably not, unless they think that they are a goat. pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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