| December 22, 2005 | - In Hubbard, Ohio, a Santa clutched his chest and collapsed as he appeared before 750 elementary schoolchildren.
| Source:
Cleveland.com
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| December 19, 2005 | - Forty Santas rampaged in Auckland, New Zealand.
| Source:
Auckland police arrest bad santas
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| December 16, 2005 | - A flasher dressed as Santa was on the loose in London.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 13, 2005 | - A man who works as a Santa at a New York
Wal-Mart was arrested after he exposed himself to a 15-year-old boy and asked for oral sex.
| Source:
Record Online
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| December 8, 2005 | - A passenger jet slid off the runway at Chicago's Midway Airport and hit a car, killing a six-year-old boy as he ate some McDonald's food and sang “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.”
| Source:
KVIA.com
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| December 4, 2005 | - There was a shortage of Santas in Perth, Australia; current Santas said that the risk of litigation was too great. “Once upon a time you'd walk through the mall saying ‘Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas’,” said Santa John Gomez, “but now you say nothing.”
| Source:
The Daily Telegraph
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| November 24, 2005 | - A London man was stabbed to death by someone in a Santa hat and beard.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 29, 2005 | - The Danish Air Force paid a Santa 31,175 kroner after the noise from fighter jets frightened his reindeer, Rudolph, to death.
| Source:
AP
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| December 20, 2004 | - Scientists estimated that ten percent of all bird species will become extinct by the end of the century, and enrollment was down at London's premier Santa school.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Stanford University
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| December 14, 2004 | - A study found that parents enjoy a visit with Santa more than their children do.
| Source:
Guardian
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| December 16, 2003 | -
Santa Claus
robbed a bank in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| December 17, 2002 | -
A British vicar told a church full of young children that Santa was dead and that reindeer would burst into flames if they traveled fast enough to deliver presents to children all over the world.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
There was a movement afoot in Austria to stamp out Santa Claus.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Santa Claus shot a woman in the face in São Paulo, Brazil, and two car bombs exploded outside police headquarters in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
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| December 5, 2000 | - The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of a retarded
Texas killer who believes in Santa Claus; he was scheduled to die but got a reprieve.
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