{"id":201,"date":"2005-12-19T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2005-12-19T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T17:58:00","slug":"people-are-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"People are nuts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size:85%;\" >Look at this article&#8230; people are absolutley crazy&#8230; I love it&#8230;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size:85%;\" ><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size:85%;\" >WELLINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialization of Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" ><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" ><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8220;They came in, said &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217; and then helped themselves,&#8221; convenience store staff member Changa Manakynda told the Herald, which reported the Santas also attacked a Christmas tree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" ><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The event organizer, Alex Dyer, had warned the antics would only stop when someone was arrested, said the Herald, which linked the incident to &#8220;Santarchy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" ><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Santarchy (www.santarchy.com) and online encyclopedia wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) record protests going back around 10 years in the United States, with participants marking Christmas in anti-commercial manner involving street theater, pranks and public drunkenness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" ><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Police said identification was a key issue as they tried to sort out which of the 40 men and women had done what.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" ><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8220;With a number of people dressed in the same outfit, it was difficult for any witnesses to confirm the identity of who was doing what,&#8221; Senior Sergeant Matt Rogers told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" ><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size:85%;\" >Anyway&#8230; it&#8217;s 5 days and counting until I go home again for Christmas and the New Year. I can&#8217;t wait. I can&#8217;t wait to see my family and all of my friends, but mostly I am very excited for Stephanie as it&#8217;s her first time to NYC. She is going to love it and I highly doubt she is going to want to leave.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot wait to give everyone the stuff that I got them for Christmas. I love giving stuff more than I like getting stuff. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I love to get stuff&#8230; but the smiles and happiness that my presents give to people has no price.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this article&#8230; people are absolutley crazy&#8230; I love it&#8230; WELLINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialization of Christmas. 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