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Bad Santa Update: Santa Cleared in RI Bar Robbery
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsPolice in Rhode Island say Santa Claus can come to town -- without facing the risk of arrest. Days after a bartender claimed she had been robbed at gunpoint by a man in a Santa Claus suit in East Providence, the pub employee reportedly admitted the holiday heist was a hoax. East Providence Yacht Club bartender Christal Johnson, 37, surrendered to police on Thursday and faces charges of filing a false police report, according to AZCentral.com. Johnson allegedly placed the initial 911 call on Dec. 19, claiming a man dressed like Kris Kringle entered the bar around 7 p.m., then reached into ...
Bad Santa Update: Potty-Mouthed Female Santas Arrested in Ohio
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsWhat happens when Santacon -- or Santarchy -- gets out of control? Police in Ohio arrested two women dressed like Santa Claus after about 100 revelers wearing Santa outfits attempted to bring a holiday-themed flash mob to the Dayton Mall on Saturday night. After spending the day spreading the Christmas cheer at bars around the area, the Santas intended to gather near the mall's resident Kris Kringle and belt out Christmas carols -- purportedly with "off-color lyrics" -- according to DaytonDailyNews.com. Cops said the raunchy songs, paired with the fact that some of the Santas seemed to ...
Chimpanzees Go Ape for Santa
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsSanta Claus is conducting a dress rehearsal today, gearing up for his annual globe-spanning trek. Leaving his sleigh in the shop and his reindeer in the barn, St. Nick is traveling by boat to the Chimp Islands, sharing holiday cheer with a more hirsute audience than the good girls and boys he'll treat on Christmas Eve. Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla., the country's first cageless zoo, hosts its 26th Christmas with the Chimps today. Guests stand on the shore, watching across the water as Santa Claus monkeys around. (A merry monkey tidbit: Chimpanzees are not monkeys. They are, ...
Santa Claus Pictures [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL Newshttp://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=962003&pid=962002&uts=1291847468 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Santas, Santas Everywhere Glassblower Gerd Zinner manufactures a head of a Santa Claus as a Christmas ornament in the Krebs Glas Lauscha GmbH in Ernstthal near Lauscha, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010. The company is one of the leading global manufactures of Christmas ornaments. (AP ...
Bad Santa Update: Gun-Toting Kris Kringle Robs RI Bar
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(Dec. 20) -- Santa Claus is supposed to spread holiday cheer -- not holiday fear. And his sack should be filled with toys, not a firearm. Rhode Island police say a man in a Kris Kringle costume was being naughty, not nice, when he entered a bar at the East Providence Yacht Club on Sunday and pulled out a gun. The robber -- who the Providence Journal describes as "large and wearing a Santa hat, white beard, a red Santa suit jacket and jeans" -- entered the watering hole around 7 p.m. while the bartender was preparing to open the bar for business. Once inside, the red-coated robber reached ...
Santa Scuba Dives Off Florida Coast [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsA scuba diving Santa Claus explored the waters of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The area is the oldest underwater preserve in the United States, just off the tip of Florida. ...
Sideshow Star Sidelines as Bloomingdale's Santa
By Marc Hartzman - AOL News(Dec. 20) -- Jolly as he may be, small children are often terrified of Santa. So it's a good thing New York City sideshow performer Scott Baker doesn't eat glass or hammer nails in his nose during his gig as the Bloomingdale's Saint Nick. Baker, 62, is a trained Broadway actor and magician who's known as the Twisted Shockmeister at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore, where he's entertained for 15 seasons. Each summer, Baker works as the outside talker, using his gift of gab -- and an occasional sharp object inserted into his nose -- to draw throngs of people inside. But with 40 ...
Opinion: The Trouble With Home DNA Tests
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 20) -- Individually wrapped praline swirls. "Excellent." Funky striped knee-length socks. "Nice touch." And, right at the bottom of the stocking, a DNA test. "Oh. Santa, you really shouldn't have. ..." I mean, you really shouldn't have. Believe it or not, personal genetic tests -- which promise to reveal risks of future health conditions from pancreatic cancer to heart attack -- are being promoted as wonderful Christmas gifts this year. One U.S.-based company, 23andMe, is selling them at a knockdown $99 until Dec. 25. The website of another, DeCODEme, quotes a buyer saying this gift ...
Raunchy, Drunken, Bank-Robbing Santas Are Naughty -- Not Nice
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Dec. 13) -- It's Santa Claus' job to find out if you've been naughty or nice -- but who's keeping tabs on Santa's behavior? Kris Kringle is a holiday icon around the world, but every year at Christmastime a few bad Santas make the jolly man in red seem like a jailbird. From Hollywood to your own family photo albums, there are bad Santas everywhere -- at least according to the hilarious holiday blog Sketchy Santas, which launched in October. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images John Toomey lost his job at Macy's in San Francisco after cracking a dirty joke to an older couple while they ...
Artist Tortures Santa in Gruesome Christmas Ornaments
By David Moye - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- You know that old saying about how artists must suffer for their art. Well, Michael R. Oddo is taking things to a different extreme: He's making his art out of making Santa Claus suffer. Oddo, an internationally recognized oil painter based in Moorpark, Calif., has a side job making wooden Christmas ornaments that show the jolly fat man being tortured, executed, beaten, electrocuted and -- coming soon, kids -- hanged by an evil dwarf. Michael R. Oddo For the last four years, artist Michael R. Oddo has been spreading Christmas cheer by hand carving ornaments of Santa Claus being ...
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