War on Christmas - British style: I saw mummy hitting Santa Claus

[depakid]

LONDON: Angry parents have beaten up Santa and three of his elves after taking their children to visit a "rip-off" Christmas grotto in England.

Visitors who forked out £30 ($69) a ticket to enter the grotto were promised a Christmas wonderland where "dreams really do come true".

However disappointed families have spoken of a "glorified car boot sale" with a Nativity scene painted on a billboard, a broken ice-skating rink and huskies tied up outside their kennels in a muddy field.

The park has now been renamed "Winter blunderland" and Britain's consumer watchdog has received 1300 complaints.

Former gate worker Adrian Wood said parents became angry when Santa refused to allow children to sit on his knee and charged an extra £10 for a picture. "The final straw for one dad came when after four hours he was told he would have to join another queue for his child to get a present - so he marched up and punched Santa on the chin," Mr Wood told The Sun.

"The park was more like a war zone. How there weren't riots I've no idea."

More: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/i-saw-mummy-hit-santa-claus/2008/12/03/1228257144624.html

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. Aaaaah,the Christmas spirit !!!! Warms my heart.

[supernova]

2. Merry Christmas Dammit!!

:rofl:

I feel for the parents who shelled out all that money, but this is LMAO!!

[dipsydoodle]

3. Here's the Beeb link

"Santa got attacked, one of the elves got smacked in the face and pushed into a pram. :rofl:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7762855.stm

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. For any fans of The Archers, I can't help thinking of Eddie Grundy when I read this

and his endless Christmas schemes (well, endless until this year, it seems - for once they have left them out of the storyline).

[pepperbear]

5. you mean this isn't an unproduced sitcom script? n/t

[LibertyLover]

6. Those poor huskies

They don't deserve to be treated like that. My husky absolutely hates to be tied up or be in the mud.