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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 12/19/2005 :  07:20:57  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
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New Zealand has a Santa problem of epic proportions. Protest my ass, this was an excuse for looters, public drunkeness, and reckless endangerment by 40 rogue Santas.

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filthy
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Posted - 12/19/2005 :  07:52:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall this same thing happening in the same place last year. Is it becoming an annual event, now?

I am reminded of the Futurama Xmas episodes where Santa was a homicidal robot and if you were caught out on Xmas Eve, you could get nastily wasted for being naughty.

These seem to be in the same, low-life class as those assholes who disrupt soccer matches.


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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 12/19/2005 :  08:25:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by filthy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall this same thing happening in the same place last year. Is it becoming an annual event, now?

I am reminded of the Futurama Xmas episodes where Santa was a homicidal robot and if you were caught out on Xmas Eve, you could get nastily wasted for being naughty.

These seem to be in the same, low-life class as those assholes who disrupt soccer matches.





Nope, you aren't wrong. They call it Santarchy.

I'm sure that sounds infinely more witty after two dozen pints of beer.

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CourseKnot
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Posted - 12/22/2005 :  10:20:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send CourseKnot a Private Message
Ha ha ha.... Too much.

Just flying through space with the rest of you...
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Dude
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Posted - 12/22/2005 :  11:03:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
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These seem to be in the same, low-life class as those assholes who disrupt soccer matches.


Santa hooligans!


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Dave W.
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Posted - 12/22/2005 :  21:25:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Marketplace did a story on SantaCon tonight. Forget 40 rogue Santas, how about 200?

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ronnywhite
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Posted - 12/23/2005 :  01:33:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send ronnywhite a Private Message
These guys are an example of a certain strain of social abberation/pathology I've made aquaintance with during my life (albeit usually somewhat more upscale) whom although I'd have to say are definitely "scumbags"... that (with my head down,) I laugh my ass off in taking a certain guilty pleasure in being entained by... in that the "Respectable Person" might surely say, "Good Lord, Man... have you no shame???!!!" when confronted by their screwball antics... as I know full well the truthful answer is- "No, in fact... when it comes to making a buck... I don't!!!"
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