After a domestic tiff, Steven Rautio took the Christmas tree that he and his girlfriend had just decorated, cut it into pieces with a chainsaw, and burned it in a wood stove, but the stove overheated and burned his house to the ground (National Mine, Mich.). [Mining Journal (Marquette, Mich.), 12-20-06]
The U.K. Noise Association and a British labor union suggested in December that they might take legal action against the "torture" of retail clerks by stores' forcing them to listen to continuous holiday music. [United Press International, 12-24-06]
According to a Reuters report, Christmas is widely celebrated in non-Christian countries with "traditional" dishes such as bats cooked in coconut milk on the island of Sulawesi and, in Japan, feasts of Kentucky Fried Chicken. [Reuters, 12-22-06]
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