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Colorado Springs devises unique method to stop tree thefts
Posted by Susan Wells, Web Producer
12/15/03
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) - Colorado Springs has historically had problems with people cutting down spruce trees on public land at Christmas.
Sometimes they disappeared from forested areas. Sometimes thieves cut them down in the medians of streets.
Only a dozen or so were lost each year, but some of them were valuable old trees.
City forester Jim McGannon wanted to stop the thefts. But how? What if, he wondered, the trees stank after they were cut down?
McGannon was able to make it happen with a combination of skunk spray and fox urine.
Every year -- about this time -- city workers coat a few hundred of the older and better trees with that aroma. The trees don't smell if left outside.
But cut that tree down and bring it indoors and it won't be the scent of an evergreen permeating your house.
Vice Mayor Richard Skorman says stealing such a tree is something a person would definitely do only once.
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When we were little, we lived at the end of a long driveway, and it had a fork in it at the end, so you could come in or go out either way. In the middle of this fork was a beautiful tree, perfectly shaped. One year, we left the house and found that someone had cut the top of the tree off
Probably it was perfect size for their Christmas tree, but it stayed like that until we moved because my dad didn't want it to happen again!! So there's my story of tree stealing to go along with yours 
