Budget Christmas attraction.

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Budget Christmas attraction.
« on: December 02, 2008, 02:42:08 pm »
Nothing to do with AI, but this short story amused me...I can just see their faces...'wow a magical tunnel of light':

 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081202/tuk-british-lapland-s-tacky-christmas-dba1618.html

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Re: Budget Christmas attraction.
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2008, 02:47:26 pm »
Lol thats funny...only over here hehe  ;D

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Re: Budget Christmas attraction.
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2008, 11:06:47 am »
'Grotty grotto' Christmas park shuts

© ITN 2008
A park set up to celebrate Christmas but described as a "glorified car boot sale" has closed down.

Lapland New Forest at Matchams Leisure Park near Ringwood in Dorset has been at the centre of controversy since it opened on November 28.

Trading standards has received over 2,000 complaints about the "attraction", which charged customers between £25 and £30 to enter.

Many people contacted local papers and radio stations claiming chaotic queues of up to three hours in the wet and cold to see Santa.

Families called the site a scam, a joke and looking more like a car boot sale than Lapland.

There were also reports of violence flaring at the site with Santa being punched in the face and elves also pushed by angry visitors.

Many visitors also complained that a "magical tunnel of light" turned out to be a line of trees with some lights on them and log cabins resembled B&Q sheds


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http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=11597757

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Re: Budget Christmas attraction.
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2008, 12:35:51 pm »

Not a reason for stopping to believe in Santa Claus. :)



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