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December 18, 2005

40 Drunken Santas Go On Rampage In New Zealand

A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus costumes, many of them drunk, rampaged through New Zealand's largest city, robbing stores and assaulting security guards, police said Sunday. The rampage, dubbed "Santarchy" by local newspapers, began early Saturday afternoon when the men, wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an Auckland overpass, said Auckland Central Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty.
She said the men then rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage containers, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on buildings.

One man climbed the mooring line of a cruise ship before being ordered down by the captain. Other Santas, objecting when the man was arrested, attacked security staff, Hegarty said.

The remaining Santas entered a downtown convenience store and carried off beer and soft drinks.

"They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves," store owner Changa Manakynda said.

Christmas Wars, Episode V:
Christmas Strikes Back

It's not wise to fool with Father Christmas.

Thanks to Allah.

Better Tagline: DeeDaGo suggests "Kringlenacht."

posted by Ace at 02:30 AM

Comments

If this isn't a joke, it's the BEST Christmas story EVER. Kind of puts me in mind of the time my Uncle Dave walked over to the tree thinking he was in the bathroom, and pissed on the Redskins Santa ornament.

Posted by: CraigC on December 18, 2005 02:35 AM

I'm either having deja vue or a real bad acid flashback. Didn't this happen last year as well? I seem to recall a similar story except the Santa's were fighting each other. Who knows? I smell an elaborate hoax.

Posted by: kent on December 18, 2005 08:51 AM

I thought Jehovah's Witnesses didn't believe in Santa.

Posted by: Retired Geezer on December 18, 2005 09:15 AM

Wasnt this an episode of the Tick cartoon?

Posted by: on December 18, 2005 09:54 AM

This has been going on for at least 10 years, since the original Santa rampage here in San Francisco.

See http://santarchy.com/ for archived reports.

Posted by: Alex on December 18, 2005 12:06 PM

Oh, it's just those wacky frat boys.
Pesky little devils.
At least they said, "Merry Christmas", before they robbed the store.

Posted by: harrison on December 18, 2005 12:10 PM

I understand that the joooooos engineered this and called it ....

kringlenacht

Posted by: DeeDaGo on December 18, 2005 12:20 PM

Ok, this is a little off the topic, but did anyone notice this headline on yahoo news.

Cheney Visits Iraq; Attacks Kill 19

Sounds like Cheney is at it again. Is this my imagination or did they do this on purpose?

peach

Posted by: Michelle on December 18, 2005 01:33 PM

If they catch them i hope they bury them under a ton of coal

Posted by: spurwing plover on December 18, 2005 02:16 PM

This is even cooler than the santa brawl at the Islanders game two years ago.

Posted by: Mike on December 18, 2005 02:58 PM

So, where's Ace? Out buying us Christmas presents?

Posted by: on December 18, 2005 03:21 PM

I doubt it, Josie. Ace is probably scouring the Interent for more fun facts about gays to share with us.

Posted by: Bart on December 18, 2005 03:48 PM

I'm glad you pointed that out, Bart. If I did, he would be miffed.

Posted by: on December 18, 2005 05:38 PM

Doesn't Doc Symes owe us another bridge update?

Posted by: DB on December 18, 2005 06:15 PM

Yeah. Auckland sucks.

Posted by: Jeremy Nimmo on December 19, 2005 05:52 AM

Doesn't Doc Symes owe us another bridge update?

Anything from Symes, Tanker, Harry, or Laura would have been a nice addition to what has posted in the last 48 hours -- crap.

The whole crew was MIA this weekend. And last week's King Kong Gay Parade was awful.

I almost -- almost -- went to Bill's INDC blog.

Posted by: Bart on December 19, 2005 09:31 AM

Yeah the drunken santa rampage was for real and it happened last year as well!

There were brawls with rival groups of Santas!

I know Auckland isnt the originator of this alarming phenomenon but its become really common up and down the country!

The problem is that they arent students or frats at all (we dont have frats in nz! thank christ). In fact they were about 28-40 years of age and i think they were builders!

Auckland does suck by the way!

Posted by: Jim the Kiwi on December 26, 2005 09:39 PM