Not to pick on fair Baltimore, but…

The Orioles, in a aesthetically-challenged, if apparently sincere (with the Devil owning the team, one never knows), tribute to their greats, erected four-foot aluminum numerals corresponding to the team’s retired numbers at Camden Yards just outside the north end of Eutaw Street and Gate H.

But its being Baltimore… things happen.

That’s right, a buncha Baltimorons decided to kick the number commemorating the city’s most beloved sports hero at the base, then rip it off the pediment. Why? Forget it, hon, it’s Crabbatown.

At least they were master criminals, evading the police with the verve of Cary Grant and David Niven making off with Lady de Winter’s diamonds:

Baltimore police said they have arrested four men who were spotted driving with the statue in the open bed of a pickup truck on a downtown street.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.