A house in Manhattan had apparently been decorated with a nativity scene picturing a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head, according to this report:
Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.
Sounds like my kind of tree. I asked a NYC-based friend of mine to get some pictures but apparently it has been vandalized. And they say the spirit of Christmas is dying.
OK, but it's on the street. I don't care whether it's Santa, an ape or a Santa ape - it's nonetheless offensive to have a severed head sitting on the sidewalk where people walk with their kids.
Posted by: Spacefluffer | December 22, 2005 at 06:42 PM
As much as I like freedom of expression, I think that's just dipping a little too far into bad taste. I wouldn't vandalize it, but I'd probably lead some (civil) effort to get it relocated.
Posted by: BronzeDog | December 22, 2005 at 10:00 PM
But if it was Halloween, it'd be fine!
Posted by: beajerry | December 23, 2005 at 08:12 AM