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Police hope tape leads to Frosty's attackers
©Associated Press
December 18, 2002
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A camera recorded the attacks that can only be described as cold-hearted if not cold-blooded.
The video shows a group of pen-wielding vandals repeatedly puncturing two inflatable snowmen in this Florida Panhandle resort city. A third attack was reported outside the camera's view.
"They stabbed Frosty in the heart," snowman owner Mike Mitchell said Monday. "To me, it's just totally against the spirit of Christmas."
Earlier, Halloween decorations in the yard of Mitchell's neighbor across the street were vandalized. Upon putting up Christmas decorations, the neighbor installed a surveillance camera that caught the stabbings in both yards.
Mitchell suspects the same culprits are responsible for the Halloween and Christmas attacks.
The tape has been turned over to Bay County sheriff's investigators. Efforts to enhance the video to read license plate numbers and identify faces have so far been unsuccessful, said sheriff's spokeswoman Ruth Sasser.
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