A local family returned home from Christmas shopping to find that a homeless gingerbread man had taken possession of their gingerbread house. They implored him to leave, even bribing him with a nice pair of warm socks, to know avail. He refused to even acknowledge them, sinking deeper into a comfy chair next to the candy fire. The police declined to take action saying possession is 9/10ths of the law. A judge remarked that it was just a gingerbread man in a gingerbread house which looked fine to him. At press time the family had taken matters into their own hands and built a new gingerbread house to live in next door to their gingerbread man neighbor.