When Santas go bad:
BBC NEWS | Wales | Mid Wales | Santas accused of street brawl - apparently the fight occured some time after the race, allowing the organisers to claim that the offenders had nothing to do with the Santa fun run.
Yeah, they just happened to be in the area wearing Santa Costumes, riiiight.
Of course this pales in comparison to the
SantaCon '96 participants in Portland who were met with a SWAT team.
According to
Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club - nice tie-in to Wednesday):
There's usually one host city that different chapters from around the world go to for one weekend, usually about two weeks before Christmas. Everybody arrives dressed as Santa Claus, using the name "Santa Claus," and the host city usually has two to three days of continuous events. People drink and party and sing, and disrupt big benefit parties, and are basically public nuisances. But the fact that there's 400 of them all in red makes them this stunning sort of moving artwork. They call it "The Red Tide." It's really beautiful. When I did it in '96, at one point it was all these Santas against this SWAT team of cops, because the Santas wanted to get into a shopping center that was private property. It was so beautiful to see all these blue policemen juxtaposed with all these red Santas, and all these crying kids that were like, "Why are you beating up on Santa?" This year, they're talking about Tijuana as the host city, but no one wants to get busted in Tijuana.
SantaCon is organised by
Cacophony who also organised Wednesday's Flash-Mob style Pillow Fight Club event and a mini-SantaCon at Victoria Station last weekend - I think I may be posting more about them in the future.
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