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Article: FLAT EARTH
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 24, 1995
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Playing Santa can be bad for your elf
IT'S not an easy job, this Santa business. If the police aren't
arresting you for running amok in a San Francisco department store,
or the Swedes aren't expressing outrage because you were once
convicted of molesting children, the kids are making unreasonable
demands or beating you up. You're not even safe in the Australian
outback.
In the heat and dust of Bourke, Santa and an elf assistant ran
to the police station after being attacked by 30 children after a
candle-lit carol-singing concert. "They were kicking me in the
groin, pinching, punching in the kidneys and trying to grab the
sweets and remove my disguise," Santa complained. One brat even
made ...