Thieves snatch 40-foot Christmas tree

WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Someone has stolen a 40-foot Christmas tree in the middle of the night in Worcester, Mass., without being seen or heard.

Residents of Moreland Hills Town Houses awoke to find their blue spruce had been cut down and taken away, WHDH-TV in Boston reports.

"A couple of guys must have came in the middle of the night with a truck, cut it down with a handsaw, so it was nice and quiet, threw it in the truck and drove away," Moreland Hills board member Dave Mero said.

A blue spruce is considered a Cadillac of trees, with a six-foot tree costing about $75 in the Worcester area.

"To replace the tree, it's probably going to cost us $2,000 to $3,000," Mero said.

Some neighbors wonder what a person would even do with a tree that size.

"Good luck trying to hide it," Kathy McCarthy said. "I don't know how you can hide a tree that size."

With no evidence and no one hearing anything, police say that this Grinch seems to have stumped investigators.