In Defense of Pub Crawls

They killed New York’s SantaCon. Well, not “killed,”perhaps, but at least wounded, and maybe mortally. (There’s blood soaking through its snow-white ruff.) As Gothamist reported Thursday, the city’s annual Christmas cheer (and vomit) soaked pub crawl will be “scaling back” this year, ostensibly out of respect to Saturday’s scheduled demonstrations against police brutality. SantaCon’s organizers, who drew 30,000 decked-out revelers to the streets of New York last year, are asking participants to only enter the few venues that have agreed to host the roving Santas. “PLEASE PATRONIZE THESE VENUES ONLY,” they wrote to those who had already contributed $10 to charity to buy their tickets. “Please move around throughout the day from venue to venue but spend most of your time inside, not on the streets.”

But we all know who really stuck the knife in Santa: New Yorkers. New Yorkers hate SantaCon.