The Easter Bunny was involved in an altercation at a local shopping center last Saturday. Officer Bears was called to the scene to investigate. We're not making this up. This story started last year, just before Easter, when party performer Alan Townsend, dressed as the Easter Bunny, was entertaining kids at a shopping center He said a skinny teenager stole a football-size egg from his basket. Last Saturday, Townsend was again in his Easter Bunny costume, entertaining kids at the Overseas Market during the Chowder Fest.
"I saw the same teenager lurking around," Townsend said. "But this time, I used a disposable camera I use to be photographed with the kids to photograph the guy, as well as the license plate of the car he was riding in. He was not happy about that. He charged me and tried to knock the camera out of my hands."
Later, Townsend said, another boy showed up and offered to use the camera to photograph Townsend with a group of children. But instead of returning the camera, the boy ran away.
"I broke a rule I have never broken in 15 years," Townsend said. "I pulled off the rabbit head and chased the guy. But I couldn't run very well in the big rabbit feet."
Townsend believes the theft of the camera was related to the earlier incident when he confronted
the alleged egg thief. He called the police and Officer Peter Bears investigated.
Three weeks ago, we ran two letters side-by-side. Dennis and Elizabeth Carbone claimed that they had taken their cat, Nunes, to the animal shelter on Stock Island for treatment because they couldn't afford to take the animal to a vet— and that shelter officials were refusing to return the cat. Shelter officials said that the Carbones, unable to care for Nunes, had voluntarily surrendered the animal to the shelter .
Update: Mrs. Carbone told KWTN this week that, after her husband had complained to a County Commissioner, "Nunes was delivered to our door."