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We all misplace little things from time to time — keys, eyeglasses, etc. That’s OK.

Losing track of big things is a different matter.

Or so you would think.

Folks in La Crosse, Wis., noticed out that something was missing from the front of the Naval Reservist Station. A six-foot-tall anchor weighing as much as a ton.

The anchor had been in front of the station since 1949 and apparently was stolen months ago. Nobody knows when or how. All they have figured out — belatedly — is that it is now gone.

Pretty embarrassing, eh? What could be worse?

How about losing a lighthouse.

Historians in Wellfleet, Mass. thought the 30-foot lighthouse that once overlooked the harbor was taken down in 1925.

Actually, the cast-iron beacon is Point Montara, Calif., and apparently has been there for a long time. Like since 1925, the year it stopped being in Wellfleet, Mass.

No one knows how it got from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific.

I think we’ve all learned a lesson here. If you’re going to steal something, do it in La Crosse, Wis., or Wellfleet, Mass.

Your chances of getting caught are not big. Even if the thing you take is.