After Baby Jesus: the kidnapping of Father Christmas
The spirit of Christmas: stealing decorations from roundabouts to hang on your balcony. Heqq, hu - tort ta' gONziPN li hallina bla flus fil-but.
timesofmalta.com, this morning
Sharp-eyed worker recovers ‘Father Christmas’
A lighting installation showing a Father Christmas has been recovered by ELC thanks to the work of a sharp-eyed employee.
The installation was installed in a roundabout near Zurrieq and went missing a few days later.
But an employee of ELC then spotted it hanging from a balcony.
The company called in the police and the item was returned. Company chairman Peter Calamatta confirmed the incident.
Over the past years a number of Baby Jesus figures were stolen from roadside cribs and one was later handed to a confessor in Gozo.
A figure of Our Lady was also stolen.
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Our very own Darwin Award nominee.
Although that does demand a fatal accident.
Common sense died – will that qualify as a fatal accident?
Oh good, they found it hanging off a balcony.
I thought it was the Mother of God in action once again, after her recent kidnapping of Baby Pea.
This just goes to prove that we all need the living wage urgently.
Then, hopefully, Peter Calamatta will not have to chain his Christmas Faders, Bambini and Madonni to the ground anymore.
Proof, once again, that we’re Wily Oriental Gentlemen at heart.
Should I cry, or should I cry?
I could swear I’ve seen an endoscopy in someone’s front garden, just behind a gnome and to the left of an imposing concrete lion. The house has a coat-of-arms the size of a baby elephant, with the date 1984 carved in limestone.
Silvio Parnis should check this out.
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LOLOLLLLLOLLLLLLLLLOOOOOLL
I not a fan of SMS language but just couldn’t help it.
Just reading Herrera on Times online about “nepotism” and that blessed enteratining moment provided by Darwin has been lost.
Does “embarrassment” feature in the vocabulary of certain MPs?
Symptomatic of the country’s dire financial situation thanks to GonziPN’s mishandling of the economy. As a matter of fact I will not be sending out cards or giving presents this Christmas but will spend the money on drinks and women instead.
It is the fault of the Church – as usual. It colluded with those who were stealing effigies of the baby Jesus and his parents from our roundabouts and look what has happened now – the crime has escalated to stealing Santa Claus himself.
Rudolph did it.
Joseph looks good in red.
Surely they meant ‘KrissMiss Farter’
No. “Krissmiss Faaaaderrrr”.
There are people who still want something for free
Red Nose – so true! See the ranting comments on timesofmalta.com’s comments-board, about how Malta should not lend money to Ireland because charity begins at home.
Seems like the mentality of some Maltese is that we are here to grasp but never to give. It is OK for us to accept money from the EU but do not ask us to contribute towards helping countries with financial problems although we are part of the EU.
Don’t you think the prime minister, or somebody else, should answer Muscat’s allegations that ministers were given a 600 euro per week pay rise?
I don’t really care what they are earning, but at the end of the day, 600 euros a week is so much compared to the 1.16 euros given out in the budget.
What I am more concerned about is the total silence about this, which therefore implies that it is true. If it is a lie, shouldn’t there have been an official denial?
[Daphne – Give me a minute and I’ll upload a post about this.]
The Labour media would probably not draw attention to it, seeing that they will be in government themselves come next election, and will stand to gain too.
Hilarious!
L-anqas hu njurant ukoll min serqu biex poggieh go post fejn jidher.
Min jaf kienx “made in china” dak il Krismisfader?