NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Salvation Army in central Arkansas says two paid bell-ringers have disappeared with their day's donations, the kettles and the bells they were using.

Maj. Jim Taylor tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that based on the average donations at the stores where the two men were bell-ringing they probably took hundreds of dollars in donations.

One disappeared from a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Maumelle on Dec. 6 and the other from a Walgreens in North Little Rock on Dec. 8.

Neither man has been arrested or charged.

The Salvation Army in the Little Rock area regularly hires employees at minimum-wage to help man the more than 50 red-kettle locations in the Little Rock area.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/17/salvation-army-bell-ringers-disappear-donations-arkansas/?test=latestnews

Times are tough....but at least they had jobs......they got the kettles uniforms and everything.....guess all they have to do is how up at some spot and collect more......and the donations go to benefits them I guess......you mean they haven't sent police to get their stuff back that's what really gets to me is that by doing that the salvation army is allowing the farce to continue granted its hard times and they probably don't even want to prosecute.....but hey just bring back our stuff

They should prosecute. Theft is theft and if it's over $250.00, which it should be with the theft of the Kettles then it's a felony.