Parents forced their children to behave a certain using the fear that Santa won't bring them presents. Parents KNOW that Santa is not real. The know that even if Santa were real, IT IS SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for him to fly his deer-driven sleigh to every house on Earth in one night.

I expect these prosecutions to be handled immediately. Get in it!!!

Santa isn't real ---- WHAT!?

Ahh. Our first victim.

Get with the prosecutors and press charges against your mother!!!

Satan Claus is REAL, Gawd Damn It!!!

I've seen him/her post on here several times...

My parents made sure I would behave for Santa by taking a bit of my allowance each week.

They said if I didn't pay then the reindeer wouldn't get any carrots and wouldn't be able to fly all over the world.

So I paid my carrot money like a good little soldier

LOL

You were DEFRAUDED out of your carrot money. You were FORCED to pay it or suffer the consequences of Santa skipping over your house.

Did you leave milk and cookies, like a good soldier?

Of course. But I had to buy them myself. My parents made sure to put them on the fireplace for me because they were in charge

I bet THEY ate the cookies, didn't they!!!


How DESPICABLE!!! Fraud to the very CORE!!!

I can't prove they did or didn't eat the cookies. Remember, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Or something. I don't know.

DAMMIT!!!

Your parents are going to walk.

Maybe parents should sue their children for pretenting to believe in Santa. I reckon some kids do it so that their parents will keep buying presents for them.

Wait a minute!!!

My parents still buy me presents! I KNOW that Santa isn't real. Did I tell them that Santa isn't real? I can't remember.


I had better assemble my legal defense team ASAP!!!

Lol, I am going to return my ill gotten gains before my parents sue. They never bought me good presents anyway ;)

LOL

You still better assemble your legal defense team. This is a CRIMINAL matter, remember.

Giving back the presents won't erase the crime.

"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to."

-------Doris Walker, in 'Miracle on 34th Street', reassuring her daughter Susan that Kris Kringle is, indeed, Santa Claus


Also the probable reason that that is such a popular movie with TBM's....

DAMMIT!!!

The Common Sense defense.

Somebody needs to work out their family issues.

This is a terrible analogy. The myth of the jolly fat man isn't used to extract payment out if children without recompense. Santa is an assumed identity whereby folks GIVE presents; it is not used to, generally, to deceive people into giving money.

A case could be made that the Santa myth is a deceptive means by which children are compelled into obedience by fear of losing the gifts given as reward for good behavior. But there's a difference: the prize is tangible. Parents spend the money to buy the gifts to give to their children without tricking the kids into handing over their hard-earned cash.

Santa Claus has no bearing on this case.

En Sabah Nur Wrote:
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But there's a
> difference: the prize is tangible. Parents spend
> the money to buy the gifts to give to their
> children without tricking the kids into handing
> over their hard-earned cash.
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Ah, so it's not fraud when the prize IS tangible, but IS fraud with the prize is so remotely INTANGIBLE that no one can prove that the prize will or will NOT be rewarded.

One must first DIE to have first-hand knowledge of whether the Mormon Church defrauded anybody. I guess this prosecution REALLY IS dead on arrival.

LOL

AND Santa won't declare you "unworthy" to attend Santa-approved weddings if your "gifts" aren't all paid up per Santa's reps here on earth. Xmas malls don't pay themselves with cookies, ya know?

The groom in that wedding I crashed last summer declared me unworthy.

I need to speak with a prosecutor.

My parents assured me that my gifts would come eventually. But each year I just got a box with a note inside saying if I kept up my good works I could be santa one day. I totally wanted to be the next Santa.

Plus I knew Santa had a list that was checked...TWICE!

Oh, but how you know he checked it TWICE???

The fraud goes deeper and deeper.

I knew he did with every fiber of my being.

and good parents support them in their reasoning.

There are no threats of damnation, beatings, or abandonment as would be if kiddies figure out Joe Smith is an abusive pervert.

If those parents would just support me in my decision to NOT believe in Jose Smith's BS, nobody would need to prosecute anybody.

They brainwashed me as a child. My parents are DOUBLE guilty of fraud.

My parents beat me to make sure I could stand the cold, harsh winds when I became Santa.

I was also anointed with candy cane oil that I would become santa if I stayed true and faithful.

I never did receive my second anointing with pine oil but I know one day I might get that call from the North Pole.

How much did all of THAT cost you?

LOL




The analogous comedy is endless.

Nothing remember? It wasn't my money to begin with. I was just giving back a portion of my allowance. I was told to be grateful that Santa had anointed me. I was even encouraged to give ALL my allowance back which sometimes I was happy to do. Sacrifice and obedience helped prove to santa that I believed he existed.

I don't recall promises of Santa, bilking them out of significant wads of money and then not delivering.