Santa sacked for smacking boy

[Casshew]

A Santa Claus is facing the sack from a Dutch shopping centre after he smacked a young boy for pulling his beard.

Peter Hendriks hit the boy on the backside in front of dozens of shoppers in the town of Rijswijk.

Defending his actions, he said: "If I hadn't done that, he would have pulled off my beard and dozens of children would have been traumatised."


http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1623371.html?menu=news.quirkies

 

[Norma]

hmmm,
Can Santa get coal in his own stocking?

 

[reb]

:laugh:wow, that's kind of funny, though.....!
don't want to traumatize those kids!

i always loved that image of a surly, slightly drunk santa begrudgingly doing his job at the shopping mall...

david sedaris cracks me up in "Santaland Diaries," wherein a mother orders elf Sedaris to tell her bratty son that he risks getting coal in his stocking. "I said that Santa no longer traffics in coal," he reports. Instead, he told the boy, "if you're bad, he comes to your house and steals things."