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To: BKS who wrote ()12/25/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: SteveJerseyShore  Read Replies (1) of 62570
 
Being that it is Christmas, here is a warm story that happened on this day full of peace and good will.

Children Stone Santa Claus Who Ignored Them


Updated 10:27 AM ET December 24, 1999
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A group of children in northern Chile stoned and robbed Santa Claus after he ignored their pleas to toss them candies from his truck as he drove past them, local press reported on Thursday.
Santa-suited Cristian Parenti, 28 was pelted with rocks by the children as they ran alongside his truck after he refused to share his load of candies, daily Las Ultimas Noticias reported. Some of the youngsters climbed aboard the moving truck and stole toys out of his sack before running away.

The 300-pound Parenti was heading to a neighborhood in Tocopilla, 960 miles north of Santiago, to deliver boxes of candies that the local government planned to give out later.

The unemployed father, hired by the city to don the Santa outfit, was hit twice in the head, in his chest and in his eye, forcing him to seek medical attention -- at which time him learned that the glue he used to attach his beard had burned his skin, the paper said.

"They left me full of goose eggs," he said.

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