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To: Sdgla who wrote (151706)	12/18/2005 5:07:38 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793570

I would too if I had to wear that fur suit in the summer time! Message #151706 from Sdgla at 12/18/2005 5:02:49 PM Who needs Saddam when you have Santa in NZ..... Santa's Go On Rampage in New Zealand

To: Sdgla who wrote (151706)	12/18/2005 9:11:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793570

Sdgla, There seems to have been some exaggeration. I expect it's a media attempt to draw a parallel with the riots in Australia. Note that there were no apostrophe's rioting, as in your comment <Santa's Go On Rampage>. A plural doesn't require an apostrophe. See, they had it right in the original: <Santas Go On Rampage in New Zealand Saturday, December 17, 2005 WELLINGTON, 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. > 40 people. I don't have a count, but let's accept that for now. "Many of them drunk" - I wonder how they knew they were drunk? Falling over, retching? Carrying a beer bottle? Loud and shouting and trying to get attention. Threw beer bottles? That means two and I wonder where they threw them to - perhaps onto the grass or into a rubbish bin? I can imagine a few of them thinking it would be fun to pee off an overpass - it rains a lot here, so it'll be washed away quickly. It's not really WMDs. <Who needs Saddam when you have Santa in NZ..... > I doubt that there were 40 of them in a row all letting rip at once, but maybe there were. A photograph would have been excellent. "Rushed through a central city park". Oh gosh. How awful. You mean they might have run instead of walking? Fitness is good and fun is good. Parks are for people. Especially if one has been drinking, it's better to play in a park. Overturning garbage container's? How many? Hundred's? Or did somebody trip over one that somebody had carelessly left across a footpath, causing reckless endangerment to passer's-by? Or pushed one out of the way and it fell over and they didn't bother to pick it up? Let's see the photo of the graffiti they sprayed. There were obviously witnesse's. How much graffiti? They'd have been arrested if they did that. There are plenty of police around the place. Throwing bottle's at passing car's? I wonder how many bottle's, and how many car's, and how many Santa's did that. Maybe it was one car and the driver tried to bowl one of the Santa's. So the Santa's threw a couple of bottle's at the errant driver. I'm sure they weren't all nice blokes out for a Sunday stroll. But I doubt that it was as bad as is made out. Comparing some weekend high jink's with Saddam is a bit silly. Gee, maybe they had WMD's in their Santa sack's. Mqurice