Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 07, 2015

Don’t leave us hanging! Check out the unusual suspects!

Who’re you going to hang this crime on?

Yeah maybe, but I got you pegged.

You can’t pin this one on me!

I hadn’t heard of this shocking wave of clothespin thievery! Where are the media when you need them?Thanks for this vital Citizens Alert, Teresa!

The authorities turn a blind eye to the clothespin thievery and we are left hung out to dry!

So the culprit is still in the wind?

What’s next – are the usual suspects, or their accomplices, squirreling away garden implements, or sandbox toys, or small lawn ornaments? Stop the insanity!

Clothespin thievery? Sounds like a clever hold-up to me…..

Officials are pushing for the installation of clothespin cameras, a network of high definition closed circuit systems to record and document all acts of clothespin thievery. The full council will meet on Friday to vote on funding for the system, which will be wireless and stream video to a secure off-site location through a cellular network, to prevent tampering by an apparently devious and sophisticated clothespin theft ring. A one-time tax levy of $237 per household is expected to be passed to fund the installation, as well as an ongoing annual maintenance cost of $4.50 per household, to be added to the annual real property tax bill. Authorities, meanwhile, are conducting an extensive and exhaustive investigation, using all means at their disposal, considering this to be one of the most serious problems of the current fiscal year.

In case anyone is interested, “trebuchet” was mentioned over at Cul de Sac today (and somewhere out there in the ether, a ripple of nostalgia rolled through the site f/k/a Frog Blog).