How do you steal a sand dune (The Savannah Morning News)

Out of habit I suppose, I carry the daily edition of the Savannah Morning Blues into the Breakfast Club every morning. Typically page one is a colorful mix of national news with "feel good" stories about the city. There are lots of pictures. Page two are photographs of all of the people who shot each other yesterday. Page three is lots of Associated Press articles. Page four is the Obituaries which is strangely familiar to whatever happened on page two. Pages five and six are whatever Tom Barton thinks, accompanied by columns by whoever Tom Barton likes, with a Mark Streeter cartoon which is normally the best part of the first section of the paper (Streeter is cool). The Exchange Section is next and to this day I'm not sure what in it. The Sports section follows and occasionally I learn if the Atlanta Braves won last night's game or not. (Lately, Mike Trainer the publisher is letting everybody go home early because he's a nice guy. The only problem is nobody's there to tell the reading public if Braves won or lost. There's a great picture of a Brave doing something then we are instructed to go online to see if they won or not. This always pisses me off. It's a simple question ... who won? It's why I dug for quarters to but the paper in the first place!). That's pretty much the Savananh Morning Blues. It's mostly a Republican wet dream highlighted by "who shot who"? Oh there's other stuff too but none of it leaves any lasting impression ... well except for the Wednesday edition which contains colorful photographs of hot women doing yoga or exercising in Spandex. I am not a sexist though I wonder about the Savannah Morning Blues. There are never any multiple photographs of men doing yoga wearing Spandex. Where's "fair and balanced" reporting? Next time I see Tom Barton, I'm going to ask him. I would trade it in for USA TODAY except for Skutch, a reporter who looks like an actor playing a reporter from a B movie in the 1940's. Skutch, who sometimes goes by the name of Jan, is a good and decent reporter ... which is why they have him covering whatever happens in court that day. If anyone can put a positive spin on murder, corruption and whoever is elected to be a Judge ... it's Skutch! The man's amazing. BUT TODAY ... there was big news. Tom Barton thought it should be on the front page. Harry confessed to stealing a sand dune. This is the first time that I'm aware that a sand dune has ever been stolen. I mean who thinks of that? Harry does. The growing sand dunes obstruct the views from the first and second floors of his hotel. A decade ago he said as much. A decade later, a sand dune disappeared. Tybee's Coconut Telegraph suspected him immediately. It took the Savannah Morning Blues weeks to verfiy this information (Skutch was in bowels of the Chatham County Courthouse, which sucks, probably trying to hide from Judges who got elected to Divinity in a robe or the story would have broken sooner.). All of this begs a question ... how do you steal a sand dune? You park a truck beside it and throw sand in the back? Did Harry carry a little away every day in his pockets? Tom Barton should have somebody ask developers in Florida where they've been stealing sand dunes for decades. Anyway ... that's the news from Tybee Island, Georgia ... as filtered by the Savannah Morning Blues. More later ... Well ... maybe ... if the Judges ever let Skutch out of the Courthouse.