How many crimes on average in the month of December were committed by people wearing Santa Claus suits?
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I heard some where about 1500, sad isn't it.
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In 1926 Coca Cola introduced North America to Santa Claus. Before that Father Christmas, Cris Kringle and Cinder Claus all wore red. The Victorian age brought vivid colours to Christmas as new methods and colouring techniques were invented.
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Santa is really an undercover law enforcement agent, and he will be coming to your house. However he will not be bringing presents because of all the stupid questions that you ask.
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Halloween, and then Christmas
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Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santy or simply Santa) is a folk hero in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, traditionally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus.\n\nFather Christmas is a well-loved figure in the United Kingdom and similar in many ways, though the two have quite different origins. Santa Claus is used interchangeably with the Father Christmas name, both understood to be the same person, with Father Christmas used as more of a formal name for the Santa Claus character. Father Christmas is present instead of "Santa" also in Italy ("Babbo Natale"), Brazil ("Papai Noel"), Portugal ("Pai Natal"), Romania ("Moş Crăciun"), Germany ("Weihnachtsmann"), France and French-speaking Canada ("Le Père Noël") and South Africa.\n\nSanta is a variant of a European folk tale based on the historical figure Saint Nicholas, a bishop from present-day Turkey, who gave presents to the poor. This inspired the mythical figure of Sinterklaas, the subject of a major celebration in the Netherlands and Belgium (where his alleged birthday is celebrated), which in turn inspired both the myth and the name of Santa Claus.\n\nHe forms an important part of the Christmas tradition throughout the Western world as well as in Latin America and Japan and other parts of East Asia.\n\nIn many Eastern Orthodox traditions, Santa Claus visits children on New Year's Day and is identified with Saint Basil whose memory is celebrated on that day.\n\nDepictions of Santa Claus also have a close relationship with the Russian character of Ded Moroz ("Grandfather Frost"). He delivers presents to children and has a red coat, fur boots and long white beard. Much of the iconography of Santa Claus could be seen to derive from Russian traditions of Ded Moroz, particularly transmitted into western European culture through his German folklore equivalent, Väterchen Frost.\n\n \nThe Russian Ded Moroz.Conventionally, Santa Claus is portrayed as a kindly, round-bellied, merry, bespectacled white man in a red coat trimmed with white fur, with a long white beard. On Christmas Eve, he rides in his sleigh pulled by flying reindeer from house to house to give presents to children. To enter the house, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and exits through the fireplace. During the rest of the year he lives together with his wife Mrs. Claus and his elves manufacturing toys. Some modern depictions of Santa (often in advertising and popular entertainment) will show the elves and Santa's workshop as more of a processing and distribution facility, ordering and receiving the toys from various toy manufacturers from across the world. His home is usually given as either the North Pole in the United States (Alaska), northern Canada, Korvatunturi in Finnish Lapland, Dalecarlia in Sweden, or Greenland, depending on the tradition and country. Sometimes Santa's home is in Caesarea when he is identified as Saint Basil.\n\nSince most activities associated with Santa Claus are extraordinary, such as delivering presents to all of the believing children in one night, keeping track of where every believing child lives, how he squeezes down chimneys, how he enters homes without chimneys, why he never dies, how he makes reindeer fly, and how he survives in the cold at the North Pole, "magic" is usually used to explain his actions.
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They are lepers who have commited crimes.
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There was just a program on the Learning Channel about the UFOs in Illinois.  Triangular shaped craft, seen by many in the law enforcement community.  It was a 1/2 hour long documentary.  Yes, there is a Santa Claus............
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it depends on which state,city,citation, and a degree of crime that was committed..*ask a lawyer* just a suggestion..
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Cromwell passed a law in 1643 banning Christmas and it is still legal in certain parts of the country to break down the front door of a suspected Chritmas-o-holic, pull their tree out into the street and burn both the heretic and their tree. \nI think Christmas should start on December 24th and finish on Dec 30th. Bah Humbug !\n\nPS please check with your local Health and Safety officials before applying the 1643 law.
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270 during  last year.\nMurders were up slightly nationwide during the first six months of the year, and gang violence contributed to more killings in some of the nation's largest cities, the FBI reported Monday. \nThe number of murders rose 1.1% nationwide, while overall violent crime declined 3.1%. New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia were among the cities with an increase in homicides.\n\nThe reasons for the increase in homicides vary by city. But experts said there has been a resurgence in gang activity in some of the cities.\n\n"The question is, what are they fighting over?" said Kenneth Land, a Duke University sociology professor. "Is it retribution homicides, or turf wars over drugs, or is it protecting turf?"\n\nThe FBI's six-month status report, based on reports from state and local law enforcement agencies, is widely viewed as an important indicator of national crime trends each year. \n\nThe report also is considered a good predictor for the bureau's year-end crime analysis.\n\nThe report does not include raw totals for categories of crimes, only percentages. However, the FBI had figures for some large cities.\n\nThe six-month totals for 2003 marked the third consecutive time the FBI has recorded a decrease in overall violent crimes but an increase in murders.\n\nThe FBI said there were 308 murders from January to June of this year in New York City, compared with 270 during the same span last year. Philadelphia had 158 murders in the first half of this year — 20 more than in the first half of 2002. Baltimore had 141 (14 more) and Newark, N.J., had 40 (13 more).\n\nOfficials in Washington declared a crime emergency this summer during a spate of mostly gang-related violence.\n\nOverall, there were 4.3% more murders in the Northeast part of the country during the first half of 2003 compared with last year. There also were slightly more homicides in the South and West; only the Midwest showed a decrease (-1.9%).\n\nMany major cities outside the Northeast had fewer slayings, the report said. Los Angeles was down by 65; it had 258. Detroit had 156 (28 fewer) and Las Vegas dropped by six, from 70 to 64.\n\nEven with the national increase in murder, overall violent crime fell, as it has for most of the past decade. Other violent crimes besides murder that are measured are forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.\n\nAggravated assaults were down 4.4%. Forcible rapes dropped 4% and robberies less than 1%. \n\nProperty crimes dropped by 0.8% compared with the year before, although motor vehicle thefts were up slightly at 0.9%. Other property crimes are burglary and larceny.\n\nThe number of arsons — measured separately — dropped 10%. Every part of the country saw fewer criminal fires set in the first half of 2003.\n\nThe nation's largest cities, those with more than 250,000 residents, saw violent crime drop slightly more than 4%. \n\nThe drop was most pronounced in rural areas, however, where violent crime fell 5.7%. Violent crime was down 1.1% in the suburbs.\n\nThe rates for property crime changed very little in cities and suburbs in the first half of 2003, but rural counties experienced a 2.5% decrease.\n\nAll regions of the country showed a decrease in motor vehicle thefts from January to June except the West, where they rose by 7.2%.\n\nThe FBI's Uniform Crime Reports for the first six months of the year are based on information collected from 9,908 state and local law enforcement agencies.
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Sure dude, Santa Claus himself told me so !\n:-))
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There's loads of things - simply attemting to commit a crime is a crime in itself.\n\nI guess the most obvuious answer to your question would be attempted murder.
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ummm well today's the 18th so 30-18=12 and then christmas is on the 25th of the next month so 12+25=37 days!
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No it's not bad luck - christmas decorations should be removed on the 12th day of christmas - i.e January 6th
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motive, intent and execution of crime.
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Yes I believe in Santa Claus. There was a fellow who went around doing good deeds for people named Saint Nicholas. He was became a Saint in one of the branch of the Christian Religions. He lived in Turkey during the 4th Century and he was best known for his good deed to a poor man who had three daughters all of them wanted to get married but the father had no money for a dowery for each of his daughters. So that none of them would become prostitutes, Nicholas as he was called at that time went to the man's house and through an open window placed money in each of the daughter's stockings. Hence the idea of putting gifts in one stockings. There is a shrine to him in Bari Italy. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of archers,children,prostitutes, lawyers and pharamacist plus a few other people in different trades. So yes there really is a Santa Clause and he wasn't made up by coke-a-cola.
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it's got to be those darn hazing rituals for the elf college again, they go on that panty raid every year.  geesh give an elf a few hienys and jello shots and look out!!  but Santa will make it all good come Christmas.