:thumbsup:
:chug:
got to give it to the guy. Rather drink it and face death than have them pour it out.
Pansy can\'t handle a liter??
Pansy can\'t handle a liter??
That\'s what I was thinking. He clearly hasn\'t aged well.
He can\'t vertical like Walsh!
Wow.
I acciedentally left something in my shoes on my way into Egypt...
But, fair warning, booze in Egypt sucks. If you are going to go there, do yourself a favour and select an intermediate stop, so you can get booze at that duty free and at the duty free in Cario.
That\'s funny, I know someone who left something in their shoes on the way back from Egypt.
Read this in this mornings paper had to pass it on.
Update: Police say woman groped Santa
Danbury resident charged with fourth-degree sexual assault
By Eugene Driscoll STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 12/18/2007 11:12:33 AM EST
DANBURY -- A 33-year-old woman was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault Saturday after allegedly groping a man playing Santa Claus at the Danbury Fair mall.
Sandrama Lamy, 33, of Danbury, is charged with fourth-degree sexual assault, according to Danbury Detective Lt. Thomas Michael.
Two messages seeking comment were left on Lamy\'s answering machine.
Details leading up to the alleged fondling are sketchy.
"I don\'t know what the deal was. It was just bizarre," the mall Santa told a reporter, referring all other questions about the incident to Cherry Hill Photo, the company that runs the Danbury Fair mall Santa photo setup.
Cherry Hill Photo did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
According to information provided by the Danbury Police Department, officers were dispatched to the mall Saturday at 8:45 p.m.
The mall Santa told police that Lamy touched him inappropriately while sitting on his lap.
"The security officer at the mall said Santa Claus has been sexually assaulted," Michael said.
Lamy was also charged with breach of peace.
"She must have caused a commotion over there," Michael said.
Lamy was released on a promise to appear Jan. 3 in Danbury Superior Court.
Danbury Fair mall spokeswoman Melissa Eigen called the alleged groping "an isolated incident."
"The safety of our guests and employees is a top priority, and we strive to create a safe and enjoyable shopping environment at all our facilities and Danbury Fair specifically," Eigen said.
2007 has not been a great year for mall Santas.
Earlier this month in Missoula, Mont., a mall Santa was assaulted with a pumpkin pie.
Meanwhile, a department store Santa in Australia claims he lost his job earlier this month because he said "Ho, ho, ho."
His bosses had asked him to say "Hi, hi, hi."
"Santa Tim" Connaghan is the president of RealSantas.com and teaches hundreds of people a year how to be Santas.
He said the Danbury Fair mall incident, if true, is one of kind.
Santas usually have to worry about kids tugging beards and teens throwing pennies from the mall rafters.
"I have been doing this 40 years, and I\'ve never heard of charges being lodged either way -- by a guest against a Santa or a Santa against a guest," Connaghan said.
It isn\'t unusual for an adult to sit and pose with a picture with a mall Santa.
"I\'ve had some very nice ladies sit on my lap," Connaghan said.
A harmless flirtation isn\'t out of the norm.
"Once in a while they\'ll say \'I hope Mrs. Claus isn\'t going to be upset.\' You have to be discreet and kind and say \'Oh no, she\'ll be OK. You can sit here, but only for one photo.\'"
sourceWoman accused of Santa groping: \'I did not do anything wrong\'
By Eugene Driscoll STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 12/18/2007 11:59:14 AM EST
DANBURY -- The woman accused of groping Santa at the Danbury Fair mall denies she even sat on the man\'s lap.
"I don\'t know what\'s going on. I don\'t know if he was confused, it was a false report," Sandrama Lamy, 33, said this morning.
Lamy said she was window shopping at the mall Saturday with a friend when she decided to get a picture with a man playing Santa Claus.
A woman -- apparently working with the mall Santa -- made a comment after the picture was snapped, Lamy said.
"I did not sit on his lap. A woman there said \'Be careful, that\'s my husband.\' I said \'What does that have to do with the picture?\'" Lamy said. "That\'s all I said, and I left."
"A couple of hours later," security officers stopped Lamy, who was still in the mall.
Lamy said she worked as a sales associate in a retail store at the mall for nine years, but is currently out of work due to an injury.
"What would I do this? There were so many people there. If he (Santa) needed a few extra bucks I would have given it to him," Lamy said. "I\'ve never been involved in a crime or anything. This is shocking to me."
Lamy said she paid for her photo with Santa, but declined to share it with The News-Times.
"It doesn\'t matter, because I did not do anything wrong," Lamy said.
Danbury police charged Lamy Saturday with fourth-degree sexual assault, after the mall Santa contacted police and said the woman touched him in an inappropriate manner.
She is scheduled to appear in Danbury Superior Court Jan. 3.
source
Details leading up to the alleged fondling are sketchy.
The mall Santa told police that Lamy touched him inappropriately while sitting on his lap.
Earlier this month in Missoula, Mont., a mall Santa was assaulted with a pumpkin pie.
Meanwhile, a department store Santa in Australia claims he lost his job earlier this month because he said "Ho, ho, ho."
His bosses had asked him to say "Hi, hi, hi."
Santas usually have to worry about kids tugging beards and teens throwing pennies from the mall rafters.
"I\'ve had some very nice ladies sit on my lap," Connaghan said.
A harmless flirtation isn\'t out of the norm.
"Once in a while they\'ll say \'I hope Mrs. Claus isn\'t going to be upset.\' You have to be discreet and kind and say \'Oh no, she\'ll be OK. You can sit here, but only for one photo.\'"
She can grope me.
Sucks to be Santa it seems.
solid quotes in that article
"I don\'t know what\'s going on. I don\'t know if he was confused, it was a false report," Sandrama Lamy, 33, said this morning.
Lamy said she was window shopping at the mall Saturday with a friend when she decided to get a picture with a man playing Santa Claus.
Why would anyone lie about this?
Interested to see what comes of this.
Keeping with the tough life of Santa.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.
Drug traffickers in a Rio slum opened fire on a helicopter carrying a Santa to a children\'s party, apparently mistaking it for a police helicopter, police said Tuesday.
"They thought it was a police operation and started shooting. Luckily, nobody was hurt," a police official said.
The helicopter had to return to its base after the attack. Two bullet holes were found in its fuselage.
Police said the pilot, contracted to take an actor dressed as Santa to the party in the Nova Mare slum, was flying over the neighboring Vila Joao shantytown when it was fired upon on Sunday.
Santa later returned to Nova Mare by car to distribute Christmas presents.
Most of Rio\'s 700-plus slums are controlled by drug traffickers and are not regularly patrolled by police, who instead go into the slums in military-style raids, often using helicopters and armored vehicles.
SourceA postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.
It\'s a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. "It\'s surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone found it, I don\'t know."
Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.
That\'s how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel\'s sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.
"That\'s all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We\'d like to know how it got down there."
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin ? the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn\'t have covered it, Martin said.
"We don\'t know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."
93 YEAR OLD CARD
Read this in this mornings paper had to pass it on.
Update: Police say woman groped Santa
Danbury resident charged with fourth-degree sexual assault
By Eugene Driscoll STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 12/18/2007 11:12:33 AM EST
DANBURY -- A 33-year-old woman was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault Saturday after allegedly groping a man playing Santa Claus at the Danbury Fair mall.
What kinda fruitcake Santa they hiring up there?
^^ my assumption is that she is butt ugly.
^^ my assumption is that she is butt ugly.
I heard over the weekend that the groping was reported because Santa\'s wife was there and witnessed it.
Hmmm, I always thought mall Santa\'s were lonely perverted drunks with drug and alcohol problems.
Hmmm, I always thought mall Santa\'s were lonely perverted drunks with drug and alcohol problems.
just in your perverse sexual fantasy\'s
^^ my assumption is that she is butt ugly.
I heard over the weekend that the groping was reported because Santa\'s wife was there and witnessed it.
Hmmm, I always thought mall Santa\'s were lonely perverted drunks with drug and alcohol problems.
i\'d be perfect for that job........