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- <title>
- Dec. 18, 1989: American Notes:Christmas
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 49
- American Notes
- CHRISTMAS
- Eau de Skunk For Thieves
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- <p> Stealing that pretty little evergreen from a neighbor's
- backyard and setting it up as a Christmas tree in your living
- room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are
- striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe:
- fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts
- from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the
- Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink
- to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into
- a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long
- before the scent wears off? Says Scrooge creator Major
- Boddicker: "For sure, by spring it'll be gone."
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- </body></article>
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