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My heart goes out to all the dissapointed young children but why can't i stop laughing at this story.

Good on the parents when their kids were ripped off by fake Santa.

Father Christmas and his elves attacked by furious parents - mirror.co.uk

Would you pay £30 to take your child to this dungheap?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 997694.ece
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I'm not surprised that there was trouble....did you see the state of the place.........and you had to pay £100 per family. Apparently a coffee and a cake was £5....:confused:
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That story is breathtakingly hilarious! I am still laughing about it since i first saw it on the news!:yh_rotfl
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I saw this on the news last night and thought it was disgusting, they interviewed the security guard and when asked if he would pay for his family to go there he had a pause so long that i thought he'd stopped breathing :thinking: It looked a total dive, I just hope that they can get some money back, apparantly trading standards are looking into the way in which it was advertised, hopefully they'll see that the park in no way represented what they had promised to their families
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Raven;1076259 wrote: That story is breathtakingly hilarious! I am still laughing about it since i first saw it on the news!:yh_rotfl


Huge shame for the kids and hard up mums and dads but i can't stop laughing at The Sun's pic of a tent in a muddy field. What a cheek to charge £30 for a kid???

It's probably scared them for life now.

British children will grow up believing that santa lives in a grotty tent in a muddy field. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Sorry, i just can't help but laugh. I'd love to see that come to court :yh_rotfl
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LOL! You just know it has to! That took such tremendous cohonies to pull that off! The rip off of the century! Snake oil cure all, modern day version! It's the huskies i feel sorry for. Lapland....yeah sure.:-2(thought that was in Kent!)
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Raven;1076270 wrote: LOL! You just know it has to! That took such tremendous cohonies to pull that off! The rip off of the century! Snake oil cure all, modern day version! It's the huskies i feel sorry for. Lapland....yeah sure.:-2(thought that was in Kent!)


It would be great if it came to court. I have this image of elves in full costume in the dock. :yh_rotfl
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and mrs clause with a marlboro hanging out of her mouth!:yh_rotfl
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Raven;1076276 wrote: and mrs clause with a marlboro hanging out of her mouth!:yh_rotfl


Seriously for a minute, those poor kids. I'd love to have seen Santa getting chinned though :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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can you imagine?? those kids thinking Santa treating his dogs that way?



(I thought santa had reindeer anyway! Not huskies!)



And what about that sorry excuse for a nativity??? I think they are done for actually.
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Raven;1076283 wrote: can you imagine?? those kids thinking Santa treating his dogs that way?



(I thought santa had reindeer anyway! Not huskies!)



And what about that sorry excuse for a nativity??? I think they are done for actually.


I think that's what i find so funny... it's just so appallingly bad. I could have knocked that up in my shed in 10 mins... hmmmm there's a thought:sneaky::sneaky:

They haven't even tried have they?

What about the poor sod who queued for 4 hours only to find that that pile of shyte once he's got in??

Sorry but i'm laughing again :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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I'm just going to have to look at those pics again :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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I KNOW!!!! Thats what so hilarious! I really think they couldnt have done a worse job! And did you see where they had to go to another place to pick up their gift from santa?? £10 for a polaroid pic! :yh_rotfl And how many people payed for that ***** before the news broke it!
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Raven;1076292 wrote: I KNOW!!!! Thats what so hilarious! I really think they couldnt have done a worse job! And did you see where they had to go to another place to pick up their gift from santa?? £10 for a polaroid pic! :yh_rotfl And how many people payed for that ***** before the news broke it!


No wonder Santa looks so sheepish in the pic :yh_rotfl

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I stuffed Reindeer

1 piece of tinsel

1 muddy back yard

1 polaroid camera

Several dogs resembling huskys. (will a jack russell do?)

1 lamp

1 santa outfit

3 elves outfits

1 tent

Lots of children





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and £35 a head! I'm in! Elf size 12 please!:yh_rotfl
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Fools and their money are easily parted. :wah:

I would have turned back at the traffic cone!
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abbey;1076374 wrote: Fools and their money are easily parted. :wah:

I would have turned back at the traffic cone!


Absolutely, i would have turned back at the car park and took the kids to McCdonalds.

It's just been on the news and apparently, they are refusing to close saying they have given value for money :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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Trouble is a lot of people paid in advance......poor kids !
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Bez;1076397 wrote: Trouble is a lot of people paid in advance......poor kids !


I'm not laughing at them, it's the whole set up. It's just so awfull that it's funny.

They showed the place on tv and it's worse than in the paper. People are just wandering around with nothing to look at.

Then they say they are carrying on. That's it.... It's 'Carryon Santa'. :yh_rotfl
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So sad for those kids, but I sure would have loved seeing santa getting a good upper cut to the jaw!!! :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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shelbell;1076779 wrote: So sad for those kids, but I sure would have loved seeing santa getting a good upper cut to the jaw!!! :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl


Me too. Good on the parents!!

I'd also like to see Santa with his beard off having a crafty cigg out the back :yh_rotfl
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oscar;1076783 wrote: Me too. Good on the parents!!

I'd also like to see Santa with his beard off having a crafty cigg out the back :yh_rotfl


He probably needed it to relax after getting attacked by the vicious parents! :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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I didn't realise this story had got into the news. Our SENCO teacher dotes on her two small kids and was thrilled when she got tickets to this as she really wanted to take her kids to Lapland but couldn't afford it. She thought this was the next best thing and has been raving about it for weeks, she was totally thrilled about how thrilled her kids would be at seeing Santa in "Lapland"!

She came back after their visit and was gutted about how God-awful it was!

She complained about how small it was and said it had been given so much hype in the press it sounded wonderful. She said they had advertised it as having lots of things to do and how great it was for kids. Apparently when she went it had 3 crummy stalls, the children were forbidden from sitting on Santa's lap and they weren't allowed a present. She was so gutted for her kids. Considering how excited she was it's a criminal shame that someone can rip off families like that!

I'll have to tell her it's in the news so she can add her complaint to the list!
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shelbell;1076787 wrote: He probably needed it to relax after getting attacked by the vicious parents! :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl


Us Brits don't like getting ripped off.

there's another report in the papers tonight where an agency supplying staff has pulled their workers out because it's getting too violent.

The cheek of them just refusing to close and carrying on ripping people off.
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oscar;1076263 wrote: Huge shame for the kids and hard up mums and dads but i can't stop laughing at The Sun's pic of a tent in a muddy field. What a cheek to charge £30 for a kid???

It's probably scared them for life now.

British children will grow up believing that santa lives in a grotty tent in a muddy field. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Sorry, i just can't help but laugh. I'd love to see that come to court :yh_rotfl


yup, its the kids that really got hurt here.
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oscar;1076791 wrote: Us Brits don't like getting ripped off.

there's another report in the papers tonight where an agency supplying staff has pulled their workers out because it's getting too violent.

The cheek of them just refusing to close and carrying on ripping people off.





AND.........they're still claiming it's a fantastic place and good value for money...............WHAT ????

http://laplandnewforest.co.uk/index.html

Scroll right down to the statement at the bottom .....
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Bez;1076967 wrote:





AND.........they're still claiming it's a fantastic place and good value for money...............WHAT ????

http://laplandnewforest.co.uk/index.html

Scroll right down to the statement at the bottom .....


I've just heard on the news that they have finally shut the place down.

The owner is allegedly a convicted tax frauder. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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There is a place down the road from us. It is a garden called Guido Gardens and is a beautiful garden all year round. At Christmastime, it is decorated with a billion lights and numerous Christmas scenes. There is Christmas music playing in the background. You can go and leisurely visit all the scenes. It is gorgeous! And it's free. :)
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along-for-the-ride;1077550 wrote: There is a place down the road from us. It is a garden called Guido Gardens and is a beautiful garden all year round. At Christmastime, it is decorated with a billion lights and numerous Christmas scenes. There is Christmas music playing in the background. You can go and leisurely visit all the scenes. It is gorgeous! And it's free. :)


I think that's exactly what these poor kids expected when they queued for hours.

It sounds beautiful.

They have shut the place, i just found tonight's report

Thousands more to be ripped off as 'Winter Blunderland' closes | Mail Online
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it is all lies.
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SantaClaus;1077592 wrote: it is all lies.


Yeah right... said the fake Santa who kept children waiting while he had a crafty cigg out the back. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

I hope now you have been shut down you scheming bastard, the RSPCA sieze your riendeer, donkie's and Husky's because allegedly, you treated them like shyte as well.
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