The traditional Christmas rampage

Are you upset over the commercialization of Christmas? If you are, I guess you could dress up in Victorian costumes and sing carols, put on a nativity play, or collect food and gifts for the poor. Or maybe you could do what these New Zealanders did:

A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus costumes, many of them drunk, rampaged through New Zealand's largest city, robbing stores and assaulting security guards, police said Sunday.

The rampage, dubbed "Santarchy" by local newspapers, began early Saturday afternoon when the men, wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an Auckland overpass, said Auckland Central Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty.

Classy, huh?

And something else about this makes me doubt the protestors' sincerity. Hmmmm...what was it?

The remaining Santas entered a downtown convenience store and carried off beer and soft drinks.

"They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves," store owner Changa Manakynda said.

Sources say the milk and cookies were left untouched.