
"People aren't reading them, and we want them back, it's that simple," said a member of the Gideons who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Hotel managers are calling the burglaries atypical. "It was the most polite break-in I'd ever seen," said Bradleys Roadhouse, manager of the Waldorf-Astoria. "They took back the Bibles, but they also turned the beds down and put chocolates on the pillows," he said.