This is from this mornings Spokesman Review, the local newspaper here in Spokane. It also made the 11 oclock news last night,
----------------------------------------------------------- Cops collar cardboard cutout in garage burglary
Spokane Valley Police Department officers descended on a home in the Ponderosa neighborhood Thursday morning, guns drawn, and successfully detained a life-size cardboard cutout of Norm Abrams without incident.
Officers were called to the home on East 48th shortly after 10 a.m. for a reported burglary in progress A. woman called Crime Check and said her garage door was open and she could see a man standing there, said police department spokesman Cpl. Dave Reagan.
The woman said her dog was barking, but the man was not moving. She described him as thin 6 feet tall and wearing a dark shirt and blue jeans.
Officers Aaron Childress and Jim Reed responded with Sgt. Martin O'Leary. After they closed in on the garage, they discovered the suspect burglar was a cardboard representation of Abram, the popular carpenter on the "This Old House" and "The New Yankee Workshop: television shows.
The woman apparently did not know the cutout was in the garage, Reagan said.