One Night on the Mean Streets of Bethlehem

                                                                                                           copyright © 1999 by Robert L. Blau

Landlord's Log, Bethlehem Crashing Boar Inn, 25 Dec 1 B.C.

Closed the books for December today and notified HQ in Jerusalem.

Couple of  bums came in today, begging for a room.  The woman was pregnant, so I let them sleep in the barn.  That was a mistake.  Their kind are always trouble.  Not two hours later, spotted intruders in the vicinity of the barn.  Good job it was so bright tonight.  Three males.  Looked like foreigners.  Called the Bethlehem Police Department.  A copy of the BPD report is attached.

Bethlehem Police Department Incident Report, 25 Dec 1 B.C.

Apprehended three wiseguys at the barn of the Crashing Boar Inn.  All three were illegal aliens.  Two fit the Arab Terrorist profile:  swarthy foreigners riding camels  and carrying suspicious-looking packages.  The third fit the Drug Dealer profile:  black.  Confiscated the following contraband:

1.  Large quantity of gold, undoubtedly from drug-dealing.
2.  Frankincense, known to be used to cover up the smell of marijuana.
3.  Something called "myrrh."  Possibly French.  Sent to lab for analysis.
Also confiscated camels and other valuables in accordance with anti-drug laws.

Suspects gave wild cockamamy story about coming to visit "the King of the Jews."  Asked to describe this person, they claimed he was a baby.  Believe they have been sampling their own wares.

Following retaliatory airstrikes against their homelands, plus a few other people's homelands, the arabs will stand trial for whatever the last unsolved bombing was.  The black guy will be tortured until he confesses to a crime to be named later.