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Tis the season to moon shoppers (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10342905/).
N.H. - SALEM - It wasn't eight tiny reindeer, but a police cruiser that took a Massachusetts man dressed as Santa Claus away from the Mall at Rockingham Park on Sunday, after he was arrested for dropping his pants in front of onlookers, police said.

If Richard Mullen, 52, of Malden, Mass., hadn't been wearing sweatpants under his Santa costume, he would be facing charges of indecent exposure rather than disorderly conduct for allegedly dropping his Santa pants multiple times in the Salem mall Sunday afternoon, Salem Police Capt. Robert Larsen said.

Mullen was released on $200 bail after the arrest and will be arraigned in Salem District Court at a later date.

Larsen said the pants-dropping was clearly intentional; it was not a costume defect. He said Mullen told police that he was just joking around, saying something to the effect of he was "just having some fun with the kids," Larsen said

Larsen said the pants-dropping was enough to make some people at the busy mall uncomfortable.
Okay, so he wasn't hired by the mall, but he was in the mall in a Santa costume, so I think that counts.

In other Santa fun, a guy in Miami put up a display with a bound and gagged Santa hanging from a tree. (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-127boundsanta,0,6076874.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines) Local parents were not pleased.

Tis the season to moon shoppers (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10342905/).

Okay, so he wasn't hired by the mall, but he was in the mall in a Santa costume, so I think that counts.

In other Santa fun, a guy in Miami put up a display with a bound and gagged Santa hanging from a tree. (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-127boundsanta,0,6076874.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines) Local parents were not pleased.

K...So...He exposed his sweatpants. The harm being....?

Edit: And people are overreacting to the santa thing. Oy.

K...So...He exposed his sweatpants. The harm being....?
I didn't see any, but then again, way back in the day when I worked in a mall (as a bartender--how sad is that?), the Santa got some shit for eating in our place in his costume and smoking a cigarette. Some parents take this shit way too seriously.

I didn't see any, but then again, way back in the day when I worked in a mall (as a bartender--how sad is that?), the Santa got some shit for eating in our place in his costume and smoking a cigarette. Some parents take this shit way too seriously.
To be devils advocate, I can kinda understand. Santa is the boogeyman that they are trying to get thier kids to behave for, and if that dude is smokin', moonin', and boozin' it might throw the kids off a bit.

At the same time, too much reliance on a fictional character for your kids to model (who's overweight, if we want to stretch) is not a good thing. But, if you've invested getting your kids to believe and then the guy you got them to believe in and admire is smokin' a stogie it can undermine a lot of efforts.

At the same time, it's never too early to develop a sense of humor.

To be devils advocate, I can kinda understand. Santa is the boogeyman that they are trying to get thier kids to behave for, and if that dude is smokin', moonin', and boozin' it might throw the kids off a bit.

At the same time, too much reliance on a fictional character for your kids to model (who's overweight, if we want to stretch) is not a good thing. But, if you've invested getting your kids to believe and then the guy you got them to believe in and admire is smokin' a stogie it can undermine a lot of efforts.

At the same time, it's never too early to develop a sense of humor.
Yes..and I wonder what those parents lack...