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(7,981 posts) Wed Dec 25, 2013, 07:43 AM Dec 2013

'Santa' shot with pellet gun at Christmas toy giveaway

Source: ITV

A man dressed as Santa Claus at a Christmas Eve toy giveaway in Washington is recovering after being shot in the back with a pellet gun.

Video footage from US broadcaster ABC shows him waving and greeting people before bending over in pain after he was shot.

The man continued to wish people a "Merry Christmas" as he waited to be taken to hospital.

Read more: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-12-25/man-dressed-as-santa-claus-shot-in-the-back-with-pellet-gun-at-toy-giveaway/

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'Santa' shot with pellet gun at Christmas toy giveaway (Original Post) SecularMotion Dec 2013 OP

the grinch took over with the toy giveaway afterwards JI7 Dec 2013 #1

Now who would do that? sakabatou Dec 2013 #2

someone who thinks that Santa should be white.. NT srican69 Dec 2013 #4

. baldguy Dec 2013 #3

Santa needs to be armed next year? alp227 Dec 2013 #5

. grantcart Dec 2013 #7

Someone was expressing his/her 2nd Amendment rights. n/t Judi Lynn Dec 2013 #6

Probably a Fox viewer. That Santa was Black, after all. Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #9

kids these days... ileus Dec 2013 #8

JI7

(89,260 posts)

1. the grinch took over with the toy giveaway afterwards

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Wed Dec 25, 2013, 07:49 AM

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sakabatou

(42,170 posts)

2. Now who would do that?

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Wed Dec 25, 2013, 08:22 AM

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srican69

(1,426 posts)

4. someone who thinks that Santa should be white.. NT

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Wed Dec 25, 2013, 08:39 AM

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baldguy

(36,649 posts)

3. .

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Wed Dec 25, 2013, 08:24 AM

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alp227

(32,047 posts)

5. Santa needs to be armed next year?

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Wed Dec 25, 2013, 01:23 PM

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Washington post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/man-dressed-as-santa-clause-shot-with-pellet-gun-in-southeast-washington/2013/12/24/0df8b698-6cbd-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html

grantcart

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7. .

Reply to alp227 (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:47 PM

Dec 2013

Morrissette said another employee, one dressed as the Grinch, put aside any differences and helped hand out presents. But not before he was grilled by one of the District’s finest. “One of the first things the officer did was question the Grinch,”.