GIDEONS BREAK INTO HOTELS, TAKE BACK BIBLES

NEW YORK - In what police are calling an unprecedented rash of orchestrated burglaries, several hundred members of the Gideons International broke into hotel rooms across America last night to take back the Bibles their organization donated.

"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.