BAL HARBOUR, Florida - A baby Jesus statue gets a Global Positioning System for Christmas! The previous baby Jesus statue in the nativity scene was stolen (even though it was bolted down). The replacement statue gets a GPS locating device installed in case someone else tried to take it away. Dina Cellini, who oversees the display thinks its a shame we have to rely on technology to save our savior. Cellini has also installed a Plexiglas screen in front of the display and plans to outfit Mary and Joseph with GPS next year.
BRAZORIA, Texas - A baby Jesus figure that was stolen from a nativity scene in Texas a year ago has returned. The doll mysteriously reappeared sometime last week. Police have no suspects or leads in the theft of the doll, but the town’s mayor says residents are just glad the figure is back.
SPOKANE, Wash. - A man dressed as Santa Claus was knocked unconscious by a thrown object that hit his face while he was riding on the back of a truck decorated as a sleigh. Kevin Smith says he never saw what hit him Saturday. Whatever it was, it broke his nose and gave him a concussion and two black eyes. “One second I was up there waving to people, and the next minute I wasn’t,” Smith said. Smith awoke in the back of the sleigh. “They thought I’d spilled my hot chocolate, but then they realized it was blood,” Smith said. “The rest of the night was kind of hazy.”
OTTAWA - Canada’s post office and police are trying to track down a “rogue elf” who wrote obscene letters to children on behalf of Santa Claus, a newspaper reported on Friday. The Ottawa Citizen said at least 10 nasty letters had been delivered to little girls and boys in Ottawa who wrote to Santa this year care of the North Pole. Return letters from Santa are in fact written by an 11,000-strong army of Canada Post employees and volunteers. “We firmly believe there is just one rogue elf out there,” a Canada Post spokeswoman told the paper.
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. quickly shut down Santa Claus’ Web privileges after it found out the automated elf it created for kids to instant message with was talking naughty, not nice. Last year, Microsoft encouraged kids to connect directly to “Santa” by adding northpolelive.com to their Windows Live Messenger contact lists. The Santa program asked children what they wanted for Christmas and could respond on topic, thanks to artificial intelligence. The holiday cheer soured this week when a reader reported that a chat between Santa and his underage nieces about eating pizza prompted Santa to bring up sex.
What weird things is your family doing this Christmas day?
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