Police identify suspect in cemetery flag thefts

[struggle4progress]

By John Mason and Lance Wheeler
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
Published: Saturday, July 7, 2012 10:52 PM EDT

HUDSON — Hudson Police believe they have identified the perpetrators of a rash of flag thefts in the Grand Army of the Republic section of Cedar Park Cemetery ...

“I think for the most part we’ve confirmed that’s the case,” Mayor Bill Hallenbeck said Saturday. Police used pole cameras to check woodchuck holes. “They confirmed there are flags down there” ...

While that evidence could be circumstantial, the police also have still photos from a motion-activated camera that showed a gopher at a flag, the mayor said.

“Shortly after this, another one showed the flag was gone,” he said ...

http://www.registerstar.com/articles/2012/07/07/news/doc4ff8c3e9b3ead811499603.txt

[Wilms]

1. Who's gonna pick a woodchuck out of a line-up?

I say the groundhog is going to walk.

[rufus dog]

2. I get to make a Bill Murray reference twice within minutes.

nevermind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002928055#post2

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Did you read the comments in the reader's forum?

Some of it was pretty disgraceful.

[longship]

4. Open season on golfers!! .... Er, gophers!!

How about some of this... A cross between Kentucky Bluegrass and California Sensimillia?

Bill Murray lives.

[oldhippie]

5. Hudson, NY, My hometown ....

We used to shoot woodchucks after school when I was a kid there. I used to take my .22 rifle to school with me on the schoolbus and keep it (and ammo) in my locker all day. Nobody cared.

Lance Wheeler (in the article byline) was my across the street neighbor when we were in grade school.