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Article: It's the season to let them eat cake
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- June 12, 2008
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WHAT are the odds that the person responsible for the theft of
two mechanical children's rides last weekend was forced into such
criminal behaviour because of the intense pressure to offer
something different at their child's birthday party?
Imagine the kudos as the other kids arrived to have a fully
working Tractor Tom and Bob the Builder ride in the garden? Beats
pass the parcel any day - and the 50p per ride would maybe just
cover the costs of those ridiculous party bags.
It really wouldn't surprise me if it was some half-demented
father who lifted them in desperation. No doubt he'd discovered too
late that there wasn't a bouncy castle to be hired in the whole of
Edinburgh and every ...