A Springfield police report says an employee of Staab Funeral Home admitted to damaging an inflatable rat that had been set up outside the business because she said the display was “embarrassing and wrong.”
A copy of the report, obtained by WMAY’s Greg Bishop, says police were dispatched to Staab after a complaint by the roofers’ union, which had set up the display to protest the use of non-union labor on a project at the business. The report says Lauren Staab came out of the business with an unidentified sharp object and punctured the inflatable rat “multiple times,” creating obvious holes and causing an estimated $5,000 in damage.
Staab was handcuffed and taken to the Sangamon County Jail. She could face charges of criminal damage to property.
