Atlanta Yarn Thieves caught!
Audrey Yandel and Michaeleen Rose are the Atlanta Yarn Thieves!
We were talking about this at NEGA SnB just on saturday, several local shop owners had spread the word about an older women stealing yarn from shops around town.
My husband was the one who pointed it out to me that knitting was in the news, I was too busy working on the socks.
The shop owner of the Woodstock yarn store (Whole Nine Yarns?) who is a really nice women, was on the news even!
“She hasn’t made a decision on whether she wants to press charges against these subjects or not,” says Lt. Will Merrill with the Woodstock Police.
Ms. Light is perhaps indecisive, because the husband of one of the accused thieves invited her to his home to recover her yarn.
“We came back with 12 great big, huge garbage bags full of yarn,” says Light.
“We thought, maybe, you know, a couple of thousand, but we totaled it up and Debi and I both just went white,” says shop manager Caryn Southwick.
Shocked because the total was almost $13,000!
Comments
Cara says;
Oh my god. I thought for sure this was a joke. WOW! That's ridiculous!
Betty says;
Holy crap! Do you personally know these women? That is unbelievable - $13,000 worth of yarn?!
Monica says;
Woah. Despite the size of my stash I have a hard time even imagining $13,000 of yarn, never mind 'lifting' it.
JessaLu says;
Wow. That's just...wow.