Tragedy Strikes In Florida Town As Inflatable Santa Decimated By Tacklers
JUPITER, Fla. - For Eva Lopresto and her family, there’s only one way to do Christmas. "Big. Very very big," said Lopresto.
At Christmas, there’s nothing bigger than Santa -- literally.
"It was a 25-foot tall Santa," Don McConnell says. "All the neighborhood kids would come and take pictures under it."
On Wednesday night, a neighbor’s surveillance camera captured quite the sight.
You could see couple of shadowy figures make their way across the street with Santa in their sights.
"You could literally see two kids running over, jumping into him, him collapsing, and then running away," Don says
The towering holiday icon now lays limp and lifeless on the front lawn.
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I don't totally understand how people put giant inflatable Santas on their lawns and don't expect them to be tackled. I understand that you're banking on people's morals, but doesn't that seem absurd where you live in a world where teenagers aren't just automatically sent to prison until they're 20?
Teenagers are terrible, terrible people. They're terrible people who don't know why they do terrible things. What's insane about teenagers is that they're terrible even without alcohol. All those hormones make for one hell of a drug cocktail, you don't even have to do anything and it'll turn nice, young Timmy on the corner into a vandalizing monster. I mean to be honest, seems like the Lopresto family is lucky that the only crime was tackling - you put a bunch of horny, angry teens in front of an inflatable Santa and who knows what those deviants will do!
Also, there may be a case of "cry me a fucking river" going on:
"The towering holiday icon now lays limp and lifeless on the front lawn."
Oh come the fuck on. That's not fair. This thing was an inflatable Santa not Rex the family dog. You know why this is lifeless? Because it's a plastic airbag, so it is lifeless. These teenagers didn't mutilate your family horse, they tackled an expensive balloon.
I think teenagers are terrible just like everybody else, and next year I hope the Loprestos set some type of trap to catch these depraved individuals in the act- but again, if you're an acne covered teenager who still "watches porn" by quickly flipping through the pages of the latest JC Penny's catalogue then if you see a big Santa you tackle it. Sucks that's the way the world is but it's like a lion cub's first hunt. If you put up giant balloons on your lawn then you've got to be ready for this.
