Want to mass-delete an object

Question

I have a 700 page document that has thick rule objects I wish to mass-delete. I am putting them on master pages for consistency and to isolate them to their own layer. The ones I wish to delete are all locked, but are inconsistently positioned.
The Find/Change dialog provides for finding objects that meet certain criteria, but I see no option to DELETE the found object, just to CHANGE it. I realize there is a certain amount of danger in such an option, but If I were to change the objects to some unique color before subsequently searching on that color and deleting them all, that would be a kind of safety step.
As a safer alternative to deleting the objects automatically, I would like the option to move these found objects to their own layer, so that I could just delete the entire layer after reviewing what was placed there.
Can this kind of mass deletion or mass movement to another layer be done?

Answer 1

OK, here you go—it appears to be necessary to calculate the length with the Pythagorean theorem (distance formula), since InDesign just returns the corners of the bounding box surrounding the stroke.
Also, for convenience, the commented-out lines print out some information about each rule that is operated on -- you might uncomment them and comment out the .remove() if you want to see what it is going to do first.
var
    i,
    doc = app.activeDocument,
    rules = doc.graphicLines,
    bounds, length, x, y, g;
for (i=rules.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
    g = rules[i].geometricBounds;
    x = g[3]-g[1];
    y = g[2]-g[0];
    length = Math.sqrt(x*x+y*y);
    if (rules[i].strokeWeight >= 2 && length > 4) {
        // $.writeln("Found rule "+i+" x "+x+" y "+y+" length "+
        // length+" weight "+rules[i].strokeWeight);
        rules[i].remove();
strokeWeight appears to give the apparent stroke weight, regardless of whether it was initially set or if the rule was scaled to get there.