Santa in punch-up horror

[adaeze]

Headline spotted at lunch: Santa and three elves punched in Lapland.

(slightly) closer inspection reveals that the Lapland in question wasn't the real one, but a fake.

Which still leaves the question, what was Santa doing in a fake Lapland to begin with?

Either way, I suspect someone's going to get a switch in his stocking.

Comments

[purplecat]

I caught a snatch of this on the Today program and it gets more bizarre. He was, apparently, punched by irate Mums irritated at waiting in a muddy field which left me wondering why they'd gone to a muddy field in the first place to see Santa when he can be found in any warm and dry Shopping Centre.

[purplecat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3543914/Santa-and-three-elves-attacked-at-fake-Lapland.html

Apparently you get charged £25 for the priviledge of standing in this particular muddy field which I can see would be irritated. Not that I, in any way, condone violence against Santa Claus (or elves - except, obviously, the squeaky irritating kind).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen the elves outside the Santa's Grotto in the Arndale Centre in Luton ...

[purplecat]

I'm trying to decide whether you mean by this that

a) despite being neither squeaky nor irritating they nevertheless deserve punching or

b) although they are squeaky and irritating, punching them would prove unwise...

[adaese.livejournal.com]

They go beyond squeaky and irritating, they are hideous beyond belief, and why small children don't burst into tears on seeing them is beyond comprehension.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

My mother once fell over and broke an ankle when running away from a very loud Christmas Grotty. Which just goes to show... something.

[sally_maria]

Oddly enough, this failed Santa's grotto was already featured in the Metro paper earlier in the week - obviously the papers don't have anything important to write about. Or they figure a bit of schadenfreude will cheer us all up.