This is How You Stop a Burglary Problem

Being in the church insurance business, and also having grown up in the Church of the Nazarene, I can really appreciate this story:

Parishioners fed up with a string of burglaries at their West Palm Beach church took matters into their own hands by capturing and hog-tying a man who climbed in through a window early this morning.

Armed with baseball bats, members of the Church of Nazarene at 5312 Broadway spent the night in the building to guard it.

At about 1 this morning, a man broke in. Church members were waiting for him inside. They beat him with their bats and tied him up with tape.

Police identified the burglary suspect as Ralph Thomas.

(It looks like it's "come to Jesus" time for Mr. Thomas - HC)

Thomas was treated at a local hospital and charged with burglary and possession of burglary tools.

An accomplice got away, police said.

We had some sleepover events at the church when I was a kid, but we never got to beat any burglers with baseball bats. Kids today have all the fun.

By the way, in an online poll which can be found here, the respondents were overwhelmingly in favor of the church's action - by more than 87% when I voted.