POLICE in Tennessee, the United States, are looking for a Scrooge who sawed off a live Christmas tree loaded with decorations in a holiday season theft.

    All that was left of the 3.05-meter tree was a tiny stump and a lot of questions as to who made off with heavily adorned tree from the front yard of Karen Wilkes in suburban Nashville. Wilkes said it cost her US$600 to have the tree planted about a month ago.

    Nothing else was taken from the yard, police said.

    “The other trees weren’t decorated,” said Major Don Linzy, chief of detectives for the Sumner County Sheriff’s Department, adding this was one of the most unusual Christmas-time crimes he has seen in his 30-year career. (SD-Agencies)