The holiday season is usually a time of year beloved by many New Yorkers, but it also brings an occasion many dread: SantaCon.
The annual gathering of costume-clad drunken idiot young people often invites mass brawls, public fornication and loutishness. And they say that as if it some kinda bad thing...
The annual event that sees some 30,000 people descend on New York, at its best Saturday’s SantaCon is a gathering of people who donate some money to charity while wearing Santa Claus costumes and getting hammered. Sounds like a reasonable-enough plan to me...
The annual event that sees some 30,000 people descend on New York, at its best Saturday’s SantaCon is a gathering of people who donate some money to charity while wearing Santa Claus costumes and getting hammered. Sounds like a reasonable-enough plan to me...
At its worst, however - and SantaCon is frequently at its worst - the whole affair is an invitation for mass brawls, widespread street-fights, public puking, public fucking and public loutishness (such a British word, n'est pas?). Again - sounds like a reasonable-enough plan to me, but who am I to judge?
It wasn’t always this way. The modern-day SantaCon traces its origins to a less fucked-up, more purposed protest in Copenhagen in 1974.
A group called Solvognen, which took its name from a Nordic Bronze Age sun chariot statue discovered in Denmark in 1902, held a four-day demonstration during which they entered a department store and began handing out books to confused shoppers.
Thank god it changed in to what it is now. Juss' sayin'...
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