Omaha Red Sox wrote:I'll be interested to see how you would have handled it differently. Remember that I did mention I probably could have handled it better. I wasn't looking for a fight or looking for trouble. It was a reaction after feeling like I was basically being attacked. I guess you don't know what it feels like or how you'd feel unless it happened to you. Not that it was that traumatic, but the stalking (happy stomper ) compounded by the gay references and touching, put me over the top and I reacted. I would rarely resort to violence but, for the record, it worked this one time.
for the record, were you grinning?
I was in shock, so I'm sure I wasn't grinning. That's not my quote, by the way.
Omaha Red Sox wrote:I'll be interested to see how you would have handled it differently. Remember that I did mention I probably could have handled it better. I wasn't looking for a fight or looking for trouble. It was a reaction after feeling like I was basically being attacked. I guess you don't know what it feels like or how you'd feel unless it happened to you. Not that it was that traumatic, but the stalking (happy stomper ) compounded by the gay references and touching, put me over the top and I reacted. I would rarely resort to violence but, for the record, it worked this one time.
for the record, were you grinning?
I was in shock, so I'm sure I wasn't grinning. That's not my quote, by the way.
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Another funny Santa story, but this one is from Brazil.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - 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.
The helicopter had to return to its base after the attack. Two bullet holes were found in its fuselage.
Police said the pilot, contracted to take an actor dressed as Santa to the party in the Nova Mare slum, was flying over the neighbouring Vila Joao shantytown when it was fired upon on Sunday.
Santa later returned to Nova Mare by car to distribute Christmas presents.
Most of Rio's 700-plus slums are controlled by drug traffickers and are not regularly patrolled by police, who instead go into the slums in military-style raids, often using helicopters and armoured vehicles.