Arrested and setenced to Christmas Cheer

What on earth? Frankly if I got pulled over in that town, I'd make sure they received a holly jolly call from my attorney first thing on Boxing Day

Does this strike anyone else as something that would happen in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre town at Christmas?

I was wondering about that, because his question "would you like to be our guests" seems odd when you then realize that the DA was called in and they had to sit through a (phony or not ) trial. At some point did the officer ask "would you like to sit through an elaborate mock trial where we judge you for breaking town customs?"

It wasn't just pulling them over and inviting them to Christmas activities, it seems like it was a whole production they got roped into. And I wonder how much they knew what they were agreeing to.

Frankly, if I was traveling on the holidays, I wouldn't want half my day to be eaten up by fake trials for not being into Christmas enough. That's why I wonder to what degree it was voluntary, because I frankly cannot imagine many travelers taking them up on the offer. A polite "no thanks, but Merry Xmas" sounds more realistic to me. Do they stop all travelers before they find someone willing to go through Kris Kringle's Kangaroo Court? Because the idea they stop just one each year, and that person unfailingly submits to their shenanigans is kind of preposterous

It just seems odd to me that they always stop New Yorkers, or people from the coasts. That's what the cop bragged about in the article, how last year they'd roped in a couple from New York City. You'd think if it was just about sharing their town's tradition, they'd be just as happy to stop people from Alabama, or elsewhere in their own state. Those people would be equally unexposed to that town's tradition as a New Yorker would be. Instead it seems like new passisive agressive counter attack in the War on Christmas.


Plus.... I agree with Louse. I am very uncomfortable with the idea of local and state elected and appointed officials engaging in some kind of "trial" that charges citizens with a lack of enthusiasm for a Christian Holiday. Yes, Christmas has in many ways been disconnected from anything that actually has to do with Christianity for a long time (in most parts of the country), but I very much doubt the people conducting these mock trials are keeping the fact that it's Jesus' birthday in the back of their minds. The whole thing strikes me as highly inappropriate at best.

My local food store sells "Louisanna Crab and Lobster cakes" which have a piece of crawdad tail inside them.

Crab cakes are basically one of my all time favorite foods, and a staple of my diet (as was true for my New Englander ancestors)