Who’s getting coal in their stockings

It was bad enough when they used to laugh and call him names, but now someone has roughed up Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Other characters say Rudolph was battered at a Christmas event in California. Santa’s sleigh ride isn’t in jeopardy, but it looks like someone just made the “naughty” list.

Some others who aren’t on Santa’s good side:

Inmates at the Monroe prison. Officials finally ended a two-day lockdown in place since a brawl broke out on Wednesday.

This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when there aren’t enough Wiis to go around.

24,500 teachers. That’s how many show up in a national database of people who have had disciplinary action taken against their teaching licenses.

The list, which is online, is short on details, so there’s no data on how many got in trouble for giving wedgies to middle school P.E. students.

Whoever ended the streak of customers buying one another cups of coffee at a Marysville Starbucks.

More than 1,000 people spread some holiday cheer during the streak. It’s not clear who ended it, but he did mention something about a “humbug.”

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