Jesus and fam outfitted with GPS in Florida nativity scene

Tired of prankster kids making off with baby Jesus year after year, Dina Cellini of Bal Harbour, Florida is having GPS installed in the doll, as well as the Joseph and Mary statues. "We may need to rely on technology to save our savior,'' said Cellini. Last year they tried bolting down the figures, to no avail, and this year they'll be augmenting the GPS with a Plexiglass screen. We're saving all our good wise man jokes for tomorrow's festivities, but feel free to toss your own into the comments.

[Via The Inquirer]

[justin @ Dec 24th 2007 4:25PM]

I wish I could install GPS in Scarlett Johansson.
*sigh*

[SuperPrime @ Dec 24th 2007 4:36PM]

"Where is your God now?"

[Archietype @ Dec 27th 2007 1:11PM]

33° 48' 38.4912"

-117° 55' 8.421"

[murray @ Dec 24th 2007 4:38PM]

Fun killers.

[apw76006 @ Dec 24th 2007 4:49PM]

I am sure they will all be located with the Travelocity roaming gnome wintering in Fiji. I always thought Joseph was the Fiji type.

[roy b. @ Dec 24th 2007 5:06PM]

does that mean technology CAN help people find jesus?

[KML @ Dec 24th 2007 5:07PM]

Hell, I'd be even more tempted to steal it now, and put it in some ridiculously hard to reach place.

Or, you know, in a tunnel.

[josh @ Dec 24th 2007 5:51PM]

jebus....don't save me, bro!

[Luke @ Dec 24th 2007 5:58PM]

Pick your favorite:

1. God loves Christians and loves his own son, that's why he's letting criminals steal baby Jesus?

2. Jesus H. Christ wants to help the poor and needy. That's the only way he can go to their houses without making it look like a Christmas miracle. Stealthy Jesus.

3. Jesus doesn't like what the Christian right has done in his name in the last few years. That's his way of removing himself from the US, politely.

[BigD145 @ Dec 24th 2007 6:04PM]

Nativity scenes aren't even taken all that often. What does get stolen often is the Bible ... out of bookstores. I can think of only one group of people in the world that would do such a thing.

[Bloobie @ Dec 24th 2007 6:14PM]

BigD: I can think of several, actually, including the alcoholics who found Jesus at the bottom of the bottle but cannot afford to pay for a copy of said good book since they spent all of their dough on the booze that led them to Jesus in the first place. :)

[BigD145 @ Dec 24th 2007 7:07PM]

@Bloobie: Are you saying alcoholics (that steal Bibles) aren't "Christian"? By the by, alcohol doesn't lead you to Jesus. AA does that. It's still just one group of people, though.

[Brian @ Dec 24th 2007 6:34PM]

Who says science and religion don't overlap?

[scientist369 @ Dec 24th 2007 7:16PM]

I think the gps thing would make me want to steal it more... i wouldnt take it for the plastic doll, id take it for the technology. its like attaching a xps to your pencil to make sure you get the pencil back from ur friend...

[Ryan @ Dec 24th 2007 7:43PM]

What if you stole it and threw it in the dumpster? Then they track it to the dumpster and voila, a baby, baby jesus. Yeah thats bad, but it is kinda funny right? Merry Christmas!!!

[Kasey @ Dec 24th 2007 8:16PM]

I'd smuggle it into the delivery center of the local hospital...just for kicks

[Rekan @ Dec 24th 2007 8:50PM]

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."

Exodus, 20:4

= ="

[granny down east @ Dec 24th 2007 11:15PM]

...exactly.

[andres @ Dec 24th 2007 9:24PM]

finding jesus has been taken to a whole new level

[Bucky @ Dec 24th 2007 9:51PM]

How about http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/security-ring-denies-intruders-when-youre-away/ ?

[Bucky @ Dec 24th 2007 10:08PM]

Damnit. You could program it to lock the plexiglass door!

[tiuk @ Dec 24th 2007 10:16PM]

I wonder if anyone is going to steal it for the free GPS tracker, now.

[sam @ Dec 24th 2007 10:41PM]

"We may need to rely on technology to save our savior," said Cellini.

Idiot statement...
How could you save our Savior if you need Him to save you?

[Brent @ Dec 25th 2007 2:35AM]

Some people just take all the fun out of Christmas.

[padraic @ Dec 25th 2007 3:50AM]

did they try nailing him to a board?

[Sean Shrum @ Dec 25th 2007 4:30AM]

Aw, hell that was a good one!

[Neo @ Dec 28th 2007 3:46PM]

Whoaaaa, OUCH! Nice. That was right up there. It cracked me up, and now I feel guilty. >_>

Mildly. Humor's a blessing aaaaaaall by itself.

[Dean @ Dec 25th 2007 4:19AM]

It adds to the challenge. Seems bringing a faraday cage of chicken wire should do the trick.
A motion sensing alarm would probably do the job easier, cheaper, and better than a GPS.

[splitsecond @ Dec 29th 2007 8:12PM]

yay