This is an AP article -- Associated Press, for crying out loud! This wasn't taken off a local news site's "offbeat" area, a random blog, etc. This might as well be a Reuters news story!

It gets better -- this was one of the top 12 headlines as of 5:00 PM 9/29 on CNN.com!  What gives?


 FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin (AP) -- Someone is either too cheap to buy his own toilet paper or planning a big prank.

Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel said someone has been repeatedly stealing toilet paper from the men's public bathrooms at the Fond du Lac City County Government Center since June.

Buechel suspects the person comes in once or twice a week around midday and gets about six rolls a week from dispensers. Some rolls weren't even full, he said.

The thefts haven't been a big loss.

"We don't buy the best toilet paper," Buechel said.

He expects the thief to get caught. "Someone is going to walk in on him when he's doing it and we'll catch him," he said.

Courthouse officials are on the lookout for suspicious activity.

County sheriff Capt. Dean Will didn't return a call for comment Friday.

I tell ya man, that's cutting edge.  What's this world coming to?  People are stealing toilet paper now!!!????

(for anyone who might not realize, that was sarcasm)