Winchester Caroler Still Missing!

Banjo Player sent me the following article from one of her hometown papers, Wicked Local Winchester, and says, "Misleading headline of the week."  No kidding - did you imagine some young lady who went caroling with some friends had mysteriously disappeared and has yet to be found?  Are you wondering why this didn't make the national news?  Then you are not alone!  Those were my exact thoughts... until I read the Wicked Local Winchester article:

Winchester Caroler Still Missing

According to the Winchester Rotary Club, one of its carolers disappeared over Thanksgiving weekend and has not been found in spite of the good efforts of the Winchester Police Department. These figurines are expensive to replace and the Rotary Club believes the townspeople enjoy this annual display on the Quill Rotary each year. The caroler is blong, stand 56" high and has a yellow and white shawl. (She stands to the far right in this picture from last year.) The caroler can be returned by leaving her outside the Parish of the Epiphany Church at 70 Church Street, no questions asked, or send a note to the Rotary Club, P.O. Box 288 and club members will pick her up.

And here is the photo.  Sorry for the poor quality, but you get the idea.

I know you are probably thinking to yourself, "What is blong, is that a blond who blogs?  Would Famous Hat be a blong?  Wouldn't 'Blong' have been a great name for this blog if she had thought of it back when she had to come up with a name?  Or was the person who wrote this smoking a blong?"  How do I know?  Because that is exactly what I thought.  Now you can see why this story is WICKED LOCAL - do we as a nation care about a missing figurine of a caroler, even if she would be expensive to replace?  Perhaps what we should be concerned about is what the person who stole her is doing with her.  Today, caroling figurines... what if he moves on to actual carolers tomorrow??  As a living, breathing blong who has been known to go caroling and has no idea how close to my house Winchester is, I can barely keep a straight face while reading this story.  Remember, the blong figurine stand 56" high, which is almost as tall as I stands.  Almost.

Mad props to the Winchester Police Department for their good efforts.

Famous Hat