I ran this last year and decided to do it again. If you are not amused by photos of wailing little kids with Santa, then don’t look. Otherwise, enjoy:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/sfl-scaredofsanta-ugc,0,2343680.ugcphotogallery
#129, 133 and 143 are my favorites.
Some of those Santas would scare the crap out of me too! #3 for example… ::shudder::
I can’t get over the parents who paid $10-20 for the mall shots of miserable kids. Or worse, put the pics on their Christmas cards.
I don’t blame the kids for being scared, really, Santa’s got to be pretty scary for some little ones. That doesn’t stop me from giggling like a madwoman at these pictures, though.
I’d hope that if one were my kid (don’t have any), I’d find it hilarious, but I have a feeling I’d want to slink off into a corner and hide.
I agree, there are some fucked up Santas in this bunch.
And even though I too was scared of Santa as a child, I am roaring at some of these photos.
Okay #112 the three year photo montage is pretty good. HOLY SHIT 119 SCARES ME AT AGE 33.
I particularly loved the “French Santa” photo: not only are the kids absolutely terrified, but the French Santa looks super bizarre as if he were a fashion model.
I love these photos, too. The ones where poor Santa has two wailing kids on his lap are particularly funny to me for some reason.
I do love #3, where the girl’s expression is all, “Take your hands off me, you pederast!”
The child in #16 looks like she’s popped something.
Is it just me, or does Santa #17 look a little bit like the Burger King?
Oh, and as for the one scout pointed out, HOLY COW! :eek: What is up with picture 119?
OK, number 17 is freaky. He looks like an oversized garden gnome. 19 looks like a security camera shot, and what the hell is up with 20’s hood? Since when does Santa have a hood? The rings around 48’s eyes are a nice touch of verisimilitude – Santa’s long holiday hours must take a toll.
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My brother was a Santa for a few years. Not a mall Santa – he mostly did private parties. Anyway, one night he was in a bit of a hurry on his way to a gig, and he got pulled over for doing 90 in a 55 zone. He was dressed as Santa at the time. The cop asked him, “Do you know how fast you were going, Santa?” My brother replied, “How do you think I make it to all those houses on Christmas Eve?” The cop, apparently unamused, asked for his ID. His ID was in his street clothes, which were in the trunk of the car. I imagine scores of kids in passing cars were scarred for life, seeing Santa rooting through his trunk while a cop stood by impatiently. “Whaaaa, Mom, they arrested Santa!!”
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These are priceless. Santa #127 looks like he’s just come to work after a really big night out.
I don’t care what the Santa looks like. If your parent abandons you to sit on the knee of some complete stranger with a bizarre, un-human continence of excessive white hair all over the place, speaking in an obviously false, abnormal voice–of course you’re going to cry.
It’s only when you’re indoctrinated to think that this phony is going to give you things that you decide to put up with it.
Oh that is fantastic, I want to hurl water balloons at them all!
Bolding mine.
Well, i can’t speak for anyone else, but if i were placing my kids on Santa’s knee, then i’d definitely want him to practice continence.
I am always horrified by the bad fake hair and beards on Bad Santas. Give me a real bearded Santa any day!
Hi, Gus! 
Oh God #13 scares the crap out of me but it damn priceless.
NEVER WILL MY CHILDREN SIT UPON THE LAP OF A SCARY SANTA!
#119 has to be some sort of Photoshop joke. I mean, nobody would do that to a child at Christmas. Well… I would… But nobody else would right?
I shouldn’t laugh.
My own kid is terrified of Santa (her visit with the Santa at Daddy’s Christmas party did not go well again this year). But some of those are really funny.
I just don’t get why anyone would do that to themselves. Maybe it’s different in other places, but here the moms line up in the malls with the kids for hours to get their pictures taken. Good god, why?
I don’t know what the wait time is here, but I’ve been to three different malls and have seen mothers dragging their kids through the line in elaborate formal outfits and/or costumes. None of them look very happy.
Makes me want to watch Bad Santa again.