SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A group of children in northern Chile
stoned and robbed Santa Claus after he ignored their pleas to
toss them candies from his truck as he drove past them, local
press reported.
Santa-suited Cristian Parenti, 28 was pelted with rocks by the
children as they ran alongside his truck after he refused to
share his load of candies, daily Las Ultimas Noticias reported.
Some of the youngsters climbed aboard the moving truck and stole
toys out of his sack before running away.
The 300-pound Parenti was heading to a neighborhood in
Tocopilla, 960 miles north of Santiago, to deliver boxes of
candies that the local government planned to give out later.
The unemployed father, hired by the city to don the Santa
outfit, was hit twice in the head, in his chest and in his eye,
forcing him to seek medical attention -- at which time him
learned that the glue he used to attach his beard had burned his
skin, the paper said.
"They left me full of goose eggs," he said.
