Article: It's the season to let them eat cake

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 ...

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