Auckland’s Rioting Santa.

By Alex in Everything Else on Dec 22, 2005 at 7:01 pm

I can’t say it any better than this news article:

A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus outfits, many of them drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, robbing stores, assaulting security guards and urinating from highway overpasses, police said Sunday.

Alex Dyer, the organizer of the "event" (if you can call it that, downplayed the riot: Link

Also checkout Santarchy | Wikipedia entry

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Nina
Dec 22nd, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Impersonating Santa Claus and rioting is sure to get you a lump of coal in your stocking.
Alex
Dec 23rd, 2005 at 1:43 pm
Or jail time.
Charlotte
Dec 23rd, 2005 at 8:56 pm
The Santarchy has gone for a few years now in the Auckland CBD during Christmas. It’s a little exaggarated by the media, it really is just a bunch of guys in their 20s drunk and walking around being silly, they occasionally beat each other up….actually they’re pretty entertaining to watch lol.
bob the fastest turtle
Dec 24th, 2005 at 2:52 am
morningside for life!
J. Saint
Dec 24th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
If this is Christmas tradition in Auckland, what happens there for Easter?

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