# Santa Shot with pellet gun in DC

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 25, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-shot-with-pellet-gun-in-dc/677123 "2013-12-25T03:48:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-shot-with-pellet-gun-in-dc/677123/1 "2013-12-25T03:48:58Z")

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> Video posted on the website of WJLA-TV shows the man waving and walking down the street and exclaiming “This is awesome.” He starts to say “Merry Christmas” when suddenly he turns around, shouts in pain and says he’s been shot in the back with a pellet gun.

[http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/man-santa-claus-suit-shot-dc-pellet-gun-21327005](http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/man-santa-claus-suit-shot-dc-pellet-gun-21327005)

Given that the Santa in question is black, we can’t rule out Megyn Kelly as the shooter.

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-shot-with-pellet-gun-in-dc/677123/2 "2013-12-25T04:13:00Z")

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Could’ve been worse. Somebody could have shot his eye out!

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-shot-with-pellet-gun-in-dc/677123/3 "2013-12-25T04:29:48Z")

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Or got him to lick a flag pole.

Seriously though, I read another article that said the guy kept giving out gifts and waving at kids until paramedics insisted that he go to the hospital. Even then he kept waving from the ambulance. Good on him.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-shot-with-pellet-gun-in-dc/677123/4 "2013-12-25T04:51:10Z")

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> [@madmonk28](#):
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> [http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/man-santa-claus-suit-shot-dc-pellet-gun-21327005](http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/man-santa-claus-suit-shot-dc-pellet-gun-21327005)

[That blurb left off the best part!](http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/24/us/santa-pellet-shooting-dc/)

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> Standing nearby, the Grinch (or someone dressed like him, anyway), continued the giveaway while Santa was taken away.