This story constitutes "news"?...and we all wonder why the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
When I first heard about it, I figured it merited about a minute of my time, now its all over the media landscape. God help us.
The Santa will get another job. Macy's PR people will offer some half-hearted explanation and the planet and mankind will survive.
This moronic tale makes balloon boy's dad seem like the Pentagon Papers.