Christmas Time in Bethlehem Gets Crimey

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.. blah blah blah blah blah. I’m not bahumbugging the whole holiday, but it just seems that there are a lot of depressed, lonely and violent people around the holidays. I mean, think about it, you may have a great family to go to and have fun and get drunk off of egg nog and play Parcheesy while your grandfather wears an awful sweater, but there are those who get to sit at home by themselves sipping on Johnnie Walker kand cursing the whole holiday all together because they have no one to spend it with.

What can you do? Eh, nothing really, because that’s just the way it is in life; some people are going to have fun and get new toys and other people are going to be stuck at home Christmas morning masturbating to some new porn. Thems the breaks, kids.

So, while it’s not quite Christmas yet, I do think we’ll see more police reports like the following since some people who aren’t going to have a nice Christmas still feel like they want to steal one for themselves. Oh, these are all just from the city of Bethlehem.

• Continuing with the theme of vandalizing holiday decorations, someone snipped the wires on a pair of lighted reindeer in a yard in the 1700 block of Barrett Drive.

• A car window was smashed in the 1800 block of Barrett Drive.

• Someone entered an elderly couple’s home in the 1400 block of Center Street and stole cash from a purse.

• Javier Roman-Velez, 32, of Wyandotte Street, allegedly drank two Red Bull energy drinks at Ahart’s Market in the 400 block of Montclair Avenue and left the store without paying. He was charged with theft.

• Tools were taken from a garage in the 1700 block of Lavan Street.

• Someone stole a laptop computer from an unlocked classroom at Liberty High School.

• Jesse Cope, 36, of Broadway, struck and choked Alice Heffelfinger, 43, at their home, police said, and fled. A warrant for alleged simple assault and harassment was issued for Cope.

• Someone scratched a car and smashed a windshield in the 600 block of Bradley Street Source

I do have to have to commend Javier up there for drinking not one but TWO red bulls in the store. I like to think of him fueling up on the beverage before robbing it and then having a lot of energy to make his getaway.

So, just remember, Santa doesn’t come to everyone because sometimes Santa gets pissed at scumbags, too.