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# Christmas Beatings Permitted
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3250/
- Published: 2005-12-05T17:44:35.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-05T17:44:35.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Holidays, #wpChunk

> Austria's traditional Christmas devils have been given police clearance to carry on smacking people's back-sides.

> Locals in towns across the country dress up as either St Nicholas, handing out sweets to the good, or as the devil, handing out beatings to the bad.

> And people who are whacked by the revellers in the run up to Christmas have no cause to complain, say police.

> Vienna police spokesman Gerhard Schoenberg said: "Dressing up is part of our tradition and being smacked on the bottom by the devils is all part of the fun.

> "Only if the beatings turn particularly violent and a person is left injured can any action be taken."

[Link](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm%5F1636101.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

This would present quite a dilemma for our Supreme Court. What about those Christmas traditions that like to smack genitals (I'm sure there's one out there)? Would we need a one-to-one buttocks-to-genital rap ratio?