Police in Norway is trying to catch a group of vandals who have destroyed a traditional Christmas decoration - a town of gingerbread houses. As Reuters reports, on Saturday vandals entered a massive tent in central Bergen and crushed most of the 650-cookie-house town, topping off the ruins with paint and fire extinguisher foam. Police asked the public to offer information that could lead to the vandals. Good sense of smell may be very useful in catching the perpetrators since according to the police "The people who did this must be full of gingerbread dust, They will smell a long way,"
The opening of the “worlds largest and greatest gingerbread town" has been postponed however the people who participated in the construction are already working to reconstruct the Bergen gingerbread town which should be ready next week.
In an Internet campaign, some petitioners suggested the perpetrators be pilloried, but local Bishop Halvor Nordhaug cooled the atmosphere and told local paper Bergens Tidende: "We must not lynch anyone over a few gingerbread houses."