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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 01:01 PM
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Jingle-bang! Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum
Drug traffickers target chopper, apparently mistaking it for police
Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.

Drug traffickers in a Rio slum opened fire on a helicopter carrying a Santa to a children's party, apparently mistaking it for a police helicopter, police said on Tuesday.

"They thought it was a police operation and started shooting. Luckily, nobody was hurt," a police official said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22309678/?GT1=10645
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 01:10 PM
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1. don't know whether to laugh or cry...
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 04:24 PM
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6. I feel a little sick....
For some reason that made me laugh... I guess it was the picture in my head of Santa Clause shouting "What the F*%#!!!!!!"
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 02:23 PM
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2. Oh! I thought it was a joke
:wtf:
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 02:35 PM
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3. When I found out Santa wasn't ....(kids don't read this)...you know...
Someone told me he'd been killed on Christmas Eve while in his sleigh over Texas back in the late 1800s.
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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 03:01 PM
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4. I warned the FAT MAN that he should carry heat down there!?!
The stubborn old fool just wouldn't listen. Shouted something about "Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men." He just didn't realize who was dealing with down there!
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-18-07 04:20 PM
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5. Even JFK told his wife before he was shot that day that there "nuts down there"
and how someone might want to shoot him. And the rest is history.
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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-19-07 07:36 AM
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7. Hence, the source of the "lone nut" theory n/t
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