http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/19/santa_rampage/
"When St Nick goes bad
By Lester Haines
Published Monday 19th December 2005 13:45 GMT
The shaken residents of Auckland, New Zealand, are today recovering
from a terrifying ordeal provoked by 40 rioting Santas who robbed
stores, assaulted security guards and, shockingly, "urinated from
highway overpasses", as The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Auckland Central Police operative Noreen Hegarty told the paper how
the rampage began last Saturday when the bad Santa collective (drunk
and wearing "ill-fitting Santa costumes") chucked beer bottles and
relieved themselves from the aforementioned overpasses.
They then "rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage
bins, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on
office buildings".
One Santa climbed the mooring line of a cruise ship and was quickly
arrested for his trouble. Other Santas at the scene objected and
piled into security staff who subsequently required paramedical
attention.
To cap this orgy of disorder, several Santas then went into a
convenience store and made off with beer and fizzy pop. Owner Changa
Manakynda recalled: "They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then
helped themselves."
The devil Santas are apparently members of a worldwide movement -
dubbed Santarchy - and "designed to protest the commercialisation of
Christmas". Three of their number were arrested during the Auckland
anti-Yule uprising.
Police are currently looking for 37 other men described as "wearing
red coats, red hats and sporting big white beards"."
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