Oregon woman loses long-time Christmas tree, but not the stumpThe Seattle TimesCORVALLIS, Ore. — Mary Moran figures she'll turn that 3-foot stump in her front yard into a Christmas statement of sorts.
The Corvallis woman awoke Wednesday to find that a long-needled pine the family had decorated for years was cut down and stolen during the night.
The family planted the pine 10 years ago, and it had grown to 15 to 20 feet high.
"The neighbors and grandkids really looked forward to the tree being lit up," Moran said.
She said the thief probably had chosen the house at the end of a dark cul-de-sac and brought a truck to cart away the tree, which an arborist valued at as much as $1,500.
And the thief had fastidiously taken the lights from the tree, draping them on rocks around the tree's raised bed.
"I'm probably going to string the lights around the base of it and just light the base of it," she said.
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Is this a new chapter in the war against Christmas?