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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Santa Claus in the scary news.



Saturday, December 24, 2005  

Santa Claus in the scary news.


It's probably a bad sign if you laugh at this story, on Christmas Eve. However, I must admit I cackled so loudly that it scared the cats. Hell, I was rolling just from the headline. I'll quote almost the whole short thing here, since it's short and if you click to the site you've got to enter a fake DoB and zip code to read it.
Man playing Santa collapses in front of elementary students
12/22/2005, 12:21 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

HUBBARD, Ohio (AP) — A man playing Santa collapsed in front of about 750 elementary schoolchildren at a Christmas assembly.

John Rappach, 60, clutched his chest and fell near the end of the assembly at Roosevelt Elementary in Hubbard on Wednesday. He was in critical condition on Thursday.

School officials ushered in crisis counselors and assured students that Santa would be fine and ready for Christmas Eve, Superintendent Richard Buchenic said.

The children were sent home with letters explaining the situation to their parents, he said.

About 700 parents were at the assembly, and those near Rappach checked his pulse once he fell and surrounded him to block the children's view, said Don Newell Jr., a parent at the assembly.

Rappach was breathing and had a pulse when he was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center in nearby Youngstown

The hospital had no update Thursday on what caused Rappach's collapse.
Seriously, what would you pay to see this on tape? Some of the parents in attendance must have been rolling video. Oh please oh please. Envision a shot of Santa as he dramatically grasps his chest before going down like a sack of cement, followed by screams of terror and shots of horrified children, while adults rush the stage like cornermen after a boxing match ends.



In really scary Christmas news:

Pope Benedict XVI, sporting a fur-trimmed hat in the rich red colour of a Santa hat, waves to pilgrims upon his arrival in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Wednesday for his weekly general audience. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Okay, other than reconfirming that no two colors go worse together than orange and red, WTF? Do they have mirrors in the Vatican? Or would the fact that this man is clearly some sort of vampyre render that point moot? Imagine him at the mall, with a press-on beard and some elves? Would you let your kids sit in his lap?

And yes, this is a real and undoctored photo. It's been near the top of the Yahoo most popular for the past few days, horrifyingly enough.

Update: I added a second photo from the same series after Kim pointed it out in comments. Someone needs to Photoshop in laser beams coming from his eyes, or something.
Comments:

Ahahaha!! Thanks for the Xmas laugh. I went and looked, and the other pic of the 'Santa Pope' they have up there was even better in terms of creepiness.


 

"Someone needs to Photoshop in laser beams coming from his eyes, or something."

you've just given me a mission.


 

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