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To: Les H who wrote (124614)	5/22/2008 9:06:59 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

More bad news for Michaels Stores arts & crafts retailer The TV news report sounded so absurd that I grabbed the DVR remote and rewound to hear it again. "The cemetery says middle-age women are stealing flowers to make crafts," the anchor repeated. Move over, common everyday criminals. There's a new breed of lawbreaker in town, and no final resting place is safe. It turns out that some plastic flowers have disappeared from Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Cudahy. The culprits are crafters. "They help themselves to the flowers they think we're throwing away," Butch Miller, director of cemetery operations at Holy Sepulcher, told me. "I ask them, 'Why would you want these flowers from a grave?' They say, 'Oh, we use them to make crafts and decorations.' " jsonline.com