Let the Powers of GPS and Jesus Combine!

The GPS technology has many uses beside that of helping drivers find the right route to their destination, one of them being the possibility to track certain items to a precise location. And this is exactly what the police in an US county had to do in order to recover the most unlikely of stolen items: a Baby Jesus doll.

As Rochelle Gilken for the Palm Beach Post reports, the authorities from the local village of Wellington have decided to fit this year's Baby Jesus doll from the Nativity scene with a GPS tracker, on account of the fact that the doll had been stolen twice last year. And sure enough, their effort paid off, since the doll mysteriously disappeared once again, on Thursday morning.

However, by simply activating the built-in GPS tracker, the police managed to track down the doll to a local home, and ultimately find the culprit, an 18-year old woman who called the whole thing a prank. Actually, Danielle Santino, the Jesus kidnapper, has even provided a taped confession in which she admitted, "I stole Jesus."

Nevertheless, this little "joke" will certainly come at a price for the prankster, because the woman has been taken into custody and booked into Palm Beach County Jail with bail set at $3,500. She is charged with a felony for taking an item valued at $800, plus $400 for the GPS system.

One of the most hilarious things about this whole story is not necessarily the use of GPS tracking (which is quite widespread around the world), but the fact that this advanced technology has been employed for catching a petty thief who decided to pull a prank on a whole community. Who knows, perhaps the two higher powers mentioned in this article really did work together in solving this great "mystery".

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