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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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 ....

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

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

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.