As the cold chill of winter set in, Occupy Wall Street protesters dispersed across the city in search of shelter and to wait for a reboot in the spring. About 60 occupiers landed at West Park Presbyterian Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rolling out sleeping bags between the pews at night to sleep. Then three weeks ago a $2,400 Apple laptop went missing from the pastor’s private office and, this weekend, the church’s 800-pound bronze baptismal font was vandalized — the basin and lid were taken. “You have 24 hours to find it and to come up with an amends and to come up with a plan,” an irate Reverend Bob Brashear warned the campers. “‘I’m sorry and it won’t happen again’ won’t work.” Though the basin was later found in a small adjoining room, the lid is still missing and the occupiers have been given two weeks to decamp. Over in Park Slope, another recent incident involved an OWS supporter urinating on a cross inside a church.
