Grandma got run down by a carriage driver as she was absconding with the local nativity scene’s Baby Jesus:
Virginia Voiers thought she was taking part in a rambunctious holiday custom, but a carriage driver thought differently and called police when he saw the 70-year-old grandmother stealing the baby Jesus from the city’s nativity scene.
Voiers was ticketed for misdemeanor theft by an officer who quickly caught up with her van after she foisted the statue.
"It was a lark, it wasn’t any serious stealing," Voiers told the Lovely County Citizen newspaper of Eureka Springs. "My granddaughter commented that no one had taken the baby Jesus this year and said, ‘Grandma?’ I said, ‘Oh, what the heck.’"
Usually, the baby Jesus is returned by the thief. Voiers said her Saturday caper was the first time she’d taken anything from the nativity.
"I didn’t know we had a tattletale downtown," said Voiers, who is also a Sunday school teacher at a Methodist church. She said she told her pastor what happened.
"He said, ‘Bless you, child. Go and sin no more,’" she said, and added that he asked, "’You didn’t tell them you are a Methodist, did you?’" …
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