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WATERVILLE, Vt. (AP) - With its tidy brick farmhouse and adjacent red barn, Old Homestead Farm looks more like a New England postcard than a crime scene. But it's one of the latest victims in a bizarre string of thefts.
Someone scaled the barn roof, possibly using climbing gear, and stole a copper-and-zinc weather vane that had flown from the 40-foot-high cupola for more than 150 years. The antique, which depicted a horse, was replaced with a cheap replica.
No one noticed until one day in June, when farm owner Elaine Thomas and her adult daughter were on a nearby hillside. The horse's tail didn't look right, Heather Thomas said.
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