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Antarctic Christmas fun gets out of hand
January 09, 2008 11:42am
Article from: Reuters
A GROPING Santa, a drunken car chase, a bloody punchout - festivities in Antarctica got a little out of hand this Christmas.
Complaints of "inappropriate touching" were made against a Santa who had posed for photographs on a decorated snowmobile at the US McMurdo station, on the edge of the continent, a New Zealand newspaper reported today.
That incident was followed by another in which a US staff member, suspected of drink-driving, raced along an icy road in a four-wheel-drive vehicle chased by a fire engine before she was intercepted, said Christchurch-based The Press newspaper, without citing sources.
McMurdo base is home to about 1000 US scientists and staff during the summer months and is the largest community in Antarctica.
At a different US station at the South Pole a worker had to be flown out to a hospital in Christchurch, more than 5000km away, after his jaw was broken in a Christmas punchout with a fellow staff member, The Press said.
Both the bad Santa and rogue driver were summoned before their managers while the attacker in the South Pole brawl had been sacked, it said.
January 09, 2008 11:42am
Article from: Reuters
A GROPING Santa, a drunken car chase, a bloody punchout - festivities in Antarctica got a little out of hand this Christmas.
Complaints of "inappropriate touching" were made against a Santa who had posed for photographs on a decorated snowmobile at the US McMurdo station, on the edge of the continent, a New Zealand newspaper reported today.
That incident was followed by another in which a US staff member, suspected of drink-driving, raced along an icy road in a four-wheel-drive vehicle chased by a fire engine before she was intercepted, said Christchurch-based The Press newspaper, without citing sources.
McMurdo base is home to about 1000 US scientists and staff during the summer months and is the largest community in Antarctica.
At a different US station at the South Pole a worker had to be flown out to a hospital in Christchurch, more than 5000km away, after his jaw was broken in a Christmas punchout with a fellow staff member, The Press said.
Both the bad Santa and rogue driver were summoned before their managers while the attacker in the South Pole brawl had been sacked, it said.
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