Or does it? For weeks, the media has covered, ad nauseum, Mayor Menino's "holiday tree" gaffe. Although...it was funny to hear the Canadian logger (the tree donor) say that he would have thrown the tree into a wood chipper if he had known it would be called a "holiday tree, ey." Good times.Christmas is supposed to be about the spirit of giving. Personally, I don't give a shit what I get for Christmas. I'm rewarded by others being happy as a product of my gifts to them. Although, this Christmas, I asked for Sirius Satellite Radio, and if I don't get it, I'm going to burn down my house. |s|
I completely understand where theses people are coming from, but...imagine the poor bastard dressed up as Santa collecting for the Salvation Army, getting pinched for Santarchy...or even worse, getting punched in the face by Santa himself? That would suck!
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialization of Christmas.
Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas.
"They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves," convenience store staff member Changa Manakynda told the Herald, which reported the Santas also attacked a Christmas tree.
The event organizer, Alex Dyer, had warned the antics would only stop when someone was arrested, said the Herald, which linked the incident to "Santarchy."
Santarchy (www.santarchy.com) and online encyclopedia wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) record protests going back around 10 years in the United States, with participants marking Christmas in anti-commercial manner involving street theater, pranks and public drunkenness.
Police said identification was a key issue as they tried to sort out which of the 40 men and women had done what.
"With a number of people dressed in the same outfit, it was difficult for any witnesses to confirm the identity of who was doing what," Senior Sergeant Matt Rogers told Reuters.
Of course, they could have just hid in this psycho's house.
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I think the funniest thing is a belligerent drunken out-of-control Santa. It's so out of the ordinary - you can't help but laugh. Kinda like the Easter Bunney with Tourettes Syndrome
...or like the time my friend Brian went to DisneyWorld when he was 8, and his mother asked Mickey to pose with him - Mickey looked down at him as they were getting ready to take the picture and said, "Fag."
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