This little bit of "strange news" made me laugh out loud. FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Paula Barstow's singing Santa stopped singing after holiday vandals pulled out his power cord and ran over his head.... ....Barstow said Santa was in his usual spot on her driveway Tuesday night. She awoke Wednesday and found him mowed down. "They had to come all the way in and just run him over, back and forth," said Barstow, who cried as she described the damage. Santa "was a neat old guy," she said. He also waved and shouted "Merry Christmas." I'm thinking some poor neighbor had had enough of 'neat old' singing Santa. (I'm not defending destruction of personal property, I can just understand how it could happen.) The article reminded me of a Christmas Past Story. Dh has an odd affinity for holiday gadgets al la singing santa. He has several of them around the house depicting various holidays. I think what he enjoys more than the gadgets themselves is driving people nuts with them. One year he came home with a table top santa that sang and danced. The kids were in high school at the time, still living at home. He was deriving particular joy that year out of torturing DU with santa, playing it for her all the time, even taking it to her bedroom door in the morning to wake her up. She came to loathe dancing santa and made several death threats against him. She would come home from school and hide him before her dad came home from work. We'd find him in all kinds of places. The coat closet. The telephone cupboard. The linen closet....you get the picture. Well, one day dancing santa came up missing again. Dh searched high and low and never found him. DU swears to this day she had nothing to do with it. Yes, she admits, she hid him. Several times. But she denies any knowledge of having anything to do with his final disappearance. Needless to say, Dh doesn't quite believe her. Every Christmas, he still waxes nostalgic about dancing santa and interrogates quizzes DU on his whereabouts. I think we'll find him one day. Probably if and when we ever get around to moving. So the story above? It doesn't surprise me. Not one bit. Santas have been known to drive people over the edge. Happy blogging. 
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