GREENE TOWNSHIP FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. -- Traditionally, the holidays are a season of giving, but Pennsylvania State Police charged a Franklin County woman for taking Christmas presents meant for others, and keeping them for herself.

The Christmas Project is a group of volunteers organized by Kathy Hewitt to bring presents to those in need. One woman who volunteered, offered to make deliveries to about two dozen families.

[...} "I got a message saying that she had gotten ill, and was in the hospital, but her friends went ahead and delivered everything, all the gifts, for where they were supposed to go. So, I called some of the families.[...]None of them had gotten anything,"

The woman put in charge of making those deliveries, Kathy Wright, is now charged with doing something wrong, theft by unlawful taking.

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I want to put my hand up here, because this is all my fault. Every time I wrote about some scumbag who stole packages, hijacked shipments, or wrote tickets for over decorating cars with holiday lights, I was doing it to help people. I was doing my best to expose those who hate the holidays for the monsters they are, but instead all I did was dare fate to issue me one one-up after another.

When I completed last crime-write-up, about the guy who beat up a Salvation Army bell-ringer for saying “Merry Christmas”, I was sure that it was the most egregious holiday crime of all time. And for three days it was, but somehow, some way, someone did one better. Yep! You guessed it! Stealing a bunch of presents meant for families-in-need is worse. That’s right, if volunteering to deliver presents to poor families is your idea of an appropriate Christmas heist, you are a garbage person. She didn't just hijack the truck! She straight Inside Man'd this one! That's so much worse! She pretended to be a good person when she really wasn't.

Give this woman life in prison. Lock her away. I’m not interested in the hallmark documentary that will come out in ten years about how she got her life back together and does a bunch of nice community things in order to repent for her old holiday sins. This one’s unforgivable. Maybe a week ago I would have pondered a way back from the dark side for our culprit, but today, this holiday criminal is dead to me. Maybe I feel this way because I'm partially responsible.

I should have known that the fates would read my blogs and conspire to create the most deranged disrespect of holiday spirit ever, but I was naive. The world revolves around me, and this is my fault.