It was the perfect crime.  Phillip Menefee was going to hit the Mathisen Tree Farms in Portage, Indiana, pick up a Douglas fir when nobody was watching, and make his escape.  Unfortunately for Phillip, his get-away vehicle was a bicycle.  It goes without saying that he didn’t get terribly far from the scene of the crime trying to transport a stolen Christmas tree via bicycle.

This guy was, apparently, intoxicated at the time he stole the Christmas tree.  No doubt he had a backpack full of nerdy ornaments, a poinsettia in the basket on the front of his Bowden Special Spacelander, and a mind to break into people’s houses and go on a decorating spree the likes of which Indiana hasn’t seen since that fearsome Christmas of 1921 when the Chicago mob invaded French Lick for a Christmas Eve Benny Goodman show. (Note: That never happened, as far as I know.)

The $40 tree was returned to the lot unharmed, but Menefee still got hit up on charges of theft and public intoxication.  A $40 tree?  That must’ve been one awesome fir!

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