Indianapolis second-graders are patiently writing various crime-solving scenarios in an effort to discover who kidnapped their gingerbread men:
Second grade teacher Katie Lewandowski made the missing men. "I came in in the morning and was getting ready to unlock my door and saw they were gone. Hanging on my mailbox was a ransom note."
The note read, "If you call the cops we will eat them."
Following the note was a picture of the two holding a newspaper, another with one's mouth taped...
It has got Lewandowski's young class doing something children don't often do patiently, writing.
"I think Santa stole the gingerbread men."
"Or the baker made them come alive and they ran out to find a girlfriend, just kidding."
Joining the suspects Grinch and Santa are Frosty and Rudolph.
"He's one clever reindeer and he can just fly away."
The article's conclusion gives away the benevolent intent of the "crime":
Our source, who knows the kidnapper, expects the mystery will be solved late next week.
Posted by kswygert at December 12, 2003 10:27 AM