Children Turn On Santa

nullspace writes "I know this is a little late for Christmas, but in Chile several children stoned Santa when he refused to throw them candy from a truck. In the end the children climbed on the truck and stole several toys from Santa's bag. The story is found on Yahoo!. "

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Children Turn on Santa

[Skeezix]

you know, that subject could be misconstrued...
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Re:Children Turn on Santa

[Pope Slackman]

Yup, I'd have to say that was pretty poorly worded...
First thing that popped into my head was "Come here little boy, and sit on my lap...".

Ewwww...

--Kevin

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"HELLO SMALL CHILD! WHO IS BACK! I HAVE THE RENEGADE MASTER WITH ME!"

Goodwill towards men?

[JadeSky]

Apparently, these children never got the point of Christmas... And the Santa missed it, too.

What kind of a Santa ignores a child?

What kind of child then gangs up and beats Santa into submission, and then steals toys and candy?

This is a case where everybody was in the wrong. heck, Santa even used some kind of caustic glue for his fake beard! (not to bright, eh?)

Re:Goodwill towards men?

[slashdot-terminal]

Apparently, these children never got the point of Christmas... And the Santa missed it, too.


Well I have always had a difference of opinion about that. Christians believe that Christ was born that night citing the bible on that. I just this year decided to call it gift day. I mean if you don't have any family at all or anyone you really care about dosn't buying presents for yourself seem rather silly? Don't holidays just get rather superficial?

What kind of a Santa ignores a child?


Ever seen Married with Children? They had an episode on once where Al was ropped in to getting presents for his wife and children by them singing him up for odd jobs for 12 days before christhmas. The last was a Santa. Basically children are rude and usually not that interesting to be around.

What kind of child then gangs up and beats Santa into submission, and then steals toys and candy?


A child who was gipped by santa and then decided to get revenge. A great deal of the problems we have as a society can be attributed to jealousy and revenge.

This is a case where everybody was in the wrong. heck, Santa even used some kind of caustic glue for his fake beard! (not to bright, eh?)


Maybe so but I think that anyone who works with children and individuals who plan such events should have strategically placed "elves" to deal with such problems.

That's sickening

[Asparfame]

That story gives me the creeps. What sort of a holiday has this turned into? It's all about consumption and greed for some apparently. These kids seem to have learned their own meanings at an early age.

I hope the little brats get punished but good.

I noticed some posts blaming the "Santa". That's absurd.

Re:That's sickening

[slashdot-terminal]

That story gives me the creeps. What sort of a holiday has this turned into? It's all about consumption and greed for some apparently. These kids seem to have learned their own meanings at an early age.


I do not believe that many holidays are almost anything with material components. Social interactions are nice but when it comes to something interesting material want is quite nice. The material want assuages the need of the moment and then allows for whatever form of advancement to occur in the form of tradition and ritual. I mean what would Christhmas morning be without presents? How many of you slashdotters out there had many childhood memories of anticipation and desire about christhmas morning. The addition of wrapping paper also enhances the experience and allows for more interest and immagination.

Cryin toddler pushes mall santa over the edge

[taniwha]

How about this one this one where santa is taken away by security guards - although I can't say I blame him - I think the mom was evil ....

Sign of the Times

[seaportcasino]

In this day and age, nothing suprises me. I think this sets a precedent we should uphold though. I ordered toys for my children through Toys'RUs and EToys and neither of my orders made it in time for Christmas. Therefore, I believe we should stone the CEOS to death, or barring that, stone (ie, DoS attack) their websites to death. Everybody get your Mac OS 9 systems ready!

This isn't totally isolated

[D. Taylor]

There was an article in the local newspaper
(really local, it covers maybe 10 sq miles), about
a santa being stoned by youths. Eventually they
abandoned the 'tour' of the area, and hid in the
truck.. IIRC, a couple people were injured in it.
--
David Taylor
davidt-sd@xfiles.nildram.spam.co.uk
[To e-mail me: s/\.spam//]

WOT

[@d1nf1n1tum]

Ok, this story is amusing and sad, but does is it really entitled to such passionate responses?

IMHO these kids are merely reacting in a manner consistant with what I call the "the Spirit of Xmas" (Christmas without Christ) that is consistant with the level of commercialism attached to this season of oh-so-many-dollars-spent.

While I realize that the anti-religous zealots may be offended by my association of Jesus w/ Christmas *boggle*, the "spirit of christmas" spoken of in most of the previous posts died long ago...

-@d

Re:WOT

[slashdot-terminal]

>While I realize that the anti-religous zealots may be offended by my association of Jesus w/ Christmas *boggle*,

Weel, technically, Christmas originally didn't have Christ in it. The church is responsible for that.
Ever wonder why Christmas is co close to the winter solstice?


Well if I remember correctly the birth of christ was another date and just biggybacked on some holiday for the roman goddess saturn or greek demeter I may be incorrect. Christ is a good association I guess if you are a christian because its a good date and starts the cycle of increasing light (winter solstice) with a number of positive emotions that humans have need of. Dispair is quite nice for most of the year but on christhmas and surrounding winter time people have need to banish some of these things. Although I did spend most of my time playing Shadow Man for the N64 so I guess I invited it in.

Re:WOT

[TheGreek]

IMHO these kids are merely reacting in a manner consistant with what I call the "the Spirit of Xmas" (Christmas without Christ) that is consistant with the level of commercialism attached to this season of oh-so-many-dollars-spent.

"The Spirit of Xmas" is only "Christmas without Christ" if you ignore the fact that the Greek spelling of Christ starts with a Greek letter that looks suspiciously like an X.

While I realize that the anti-religous zealots may be offended by my association of Jesus w/ Christmas *boggle*, the "spirit of christmas" spoken of in most of the previous posts died long ago...

I'm not an "anti-religious zealot," but I'm offended by your half-assed troll disguise job.

Re:WOT

[slashdot-terminal]

It can be anybody's holiday my friend, not just those who believe in Christ.


Humans commonly associate with what they are most familar with; this is a basic survival instinct and is the best thing that one can do to survive in any environment where the new and interesting is usually a very bad thing. (ex. wow look at this tasty looking plant with purple leaves I wonder what it would taste like? might make a good stew!)

Re:WOT

[ralphclark]

Most (educated) people today understand that the stories about the miracles etc. are most probably exaggerated if not outright fiction. But you only make yourself look foolish by claiming he didn't exist.

Ieshua ben-Iussef (known to us today as Jesus Christ) was almost certainly a real person; He was written about by a contemporary Roman historian by the name of Josephus.

I haven't read Josephus' writing myself but I'm told it wasn't very flattering (he said Jesus was a hunchback whose eyebrows met in the middle). It's likely the piece was politically motivated, since as we all know the Roman government fought a continual war against cultism and particularly Christianity.

The point is, if the Roman authorites at the time could have gotten away with claiming he didn't exist they most certainly would have done so. But any attempts to that effect were stymied by the fact that their own political commentators had already put him on the record.

If further evidence is required, please refer to the Bethlehem census data for 4BC ;o)

Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction

Re:WOT

[Jburkholder]

This always makes me laugh. Sure, it's really easy to argue back and forth if the person we know as Jesus of Nazareth was really the son of God, but to claim that he never existed at all...

That would be a great trick indeed, the pinnacle of scams to completely invent his existance to the point that Constantine and most of the anglo world was converted to a religeon based on someone that never even existed. Think about it. Our world-wide calendar is based on the date of birth of an individual that was never born. *boggle*

Not news for nerds

[quadong]

So, here are your options:
a)Ignore articles you don't feel fulfill the mission of slashdot.
b)Ignore article posters that you don't like (You have to be logged in to do this, but hey... that has a lot of other benifits too)
c)petition rob to change the title of the main page to "Slashdot:News for Nerds And Other Stuff that Matters."

Children are violent, aren't they? :D

[Digital_Fiend]

I went to some frisbee throwing tournament in San Diego (where I live) in '92.. some radio station that had a big Penguin as their mascot (I have to wonder about their inspiration :) attracted the attention of several 6 year old kids... They started kicking the Penguin and stuff.. one of em kept spitting on the little mesh screen that the guy in the suit was breathing through.. At the time it seemed funny.

Of course, it must have been Doom's fault. :D

-Warren

Spirit of christmas...

[Skinka]

The first and only good Southpark episode. Get a copy here and teach your children the true meaning of christmas.

Kid, meet my "elf", Guido...

[Svartalf]

I have this picture of a 6' tall man with brass knuckles, wearing an Elf suit...

Re:Scope

[slashdot-terminal]

Oh, and I think race had something to do with it too...


In most areas of the world race is usually not revelent. In the United States we have problems of that sort a great deal more than other places. The only exception would be the Middle east or maybe parts of Central Africa.

Maybe just good thinking...

[AME]

Perhaps these kids are just being practical. Santa only gives toys to the nice boys and girls, or so the legend goes. If these kids were, in fact, naughty (as the evidence would seem to suggest) then this is the only way that they are getting any toys from Santa this Christmas.

These kids might be smarter than we give them credit for.

Santa can't do the job?

[/]

If Santa can't handle the little bastards, then you can always send in the clowns. Now those are professionals who know how to handle their own, and while a bunch of six-year-olds may be able to subdue one overweight bearded man in a suit, they surely can't subdue a legion of goulish fiends in warpaint and attack shoes. Remember Poltergeist? I thought so.

Saturnalia

[coyote-san]

IIRC, December 25th was the start of the Roman Saturnalia, a holiday that was deliberately set a few days after the solstice and notorious for its "debauchery" since it was a brief period when certain laws were not enforced. So, it acted as a pressure release valve by allowing the controlled violation of certain morality laws.

In Christianity, it goes without saying that God never blinks and a Saturnalia isn't permitted. Like all zero-tolerance laws, you can make a strong argument that it's been a disaster. (E.g., is it better to suffer adultery one week per year, but otherwise have a solid marriage, or have a sham marriage because the straying spouse figures that Hell won't get any hotter if the marriage vows are broken 1000 times instead of just once?) But our "secular" society is still so chi-centric that most people look at you like you have truly lost your mind if you suggest that there's historical precedence for a one-week "get drunk, get stoned, get laid, gamble, lie and cheat!" break from the normal rules of society.

Finally, your "Jesus was born on the sixth of January" sounds like a very odd distortion of the Orthodox Church's calendar. The Catholic and Protestant churches follow the Gregorian calendar, but the Orthodox and Coptic(?) churches still follow the Julian calendar. The difference is almost 2 weeks, so 25 December (Julian) = 6 January (Gregorian). That's also why the Russian "October Revolution" occured in early November - Czarist Russia was Orthodox, but atheist communists ultimately switched to the Gregorian calendar.

That's why we get..

[Egorn]

...santas like the one in Futurama. After being stoned by a group of chillian kids, I can almost guarantee total evil santa..

Bah Humbug

[Amphigory]

Okay all you parents out there -- it's time to consider this whole Santa thing.

We teach our kids, from birth, to believe in a "Jolly Old Elf" who will bring them presents on Christmas morning. Allegedly, this "Elf" only brings presents to good girls and boys, but since I always got something I can attest to the fact that he is not very observant.

Then, when the kid turns 7 or so and figures out that it's all humbug, we enlist them in the conspiracy to fool their younger relatives and subject them to dire threats if they fail to lie to their younger siblings.

Am I the only one who sees how absurd this is?

Etoys? Bad choice for ethical reasons as well.

[FreeUser]

No offense meant, but haven't you been paying the least bit attention to stories posted to slashdot? After etoys.com used judicial thugery to get etoy.com (an articstic sight in France operating since 1994) shut down, how could you possibly give them your business in good conscience? My gut reaction (no flame intended) upon reading your comments was (and, truth be told, remains) "you deserved not to get those gifts in time!"

Karma (the metaphysical stuff, not the slashdot numerical kind) in action, I would say.

Re:That is so wrong

[PurpleBob]

My guess is that the kids had had it up to here (attempts to gesture via text) with the "spirit of Christmas".
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