My hometown is about 11,000 people.
It's in the Bible Belt and most in my town reflect this.
Every year, we have a Christmas parade.
This year, one of the businesses decided to feature Krampus.
Chaos.
Seriously, within hours of people finding out about this, there were chain texts going around, proclaiming that someone was going to be THE DEVIL at the parade.
The business's Facebook page had over 800 comments.
Lots of stuff about the Devil.
Lots of comments about how people should learn to use Google.
One woman commented that she suspected we were the town that Footloose was based on.
Of course, because of course, some people started making threats against the business.
And against the people who work there.
And against Krampus.
And probably against the Devil, but I'm not sure about that.
The mayor got involved.
On Facebook.
Sigh.
He said that he would ask them to not do this thing, but he couldn't stop them.
He assured everyone that the parade was about CHRISTmas and not the Devil.
Then he used Google and realized what Krampus was.
His post has been deleted.
People had had enough.
Songs were made up.
“They're bringing Krampus back. And all the fundies don't know how to act.”
One of my friends invented a minion of Krampus that he named after our home town.
There is now a backstory and art.
We plan on making it a holiday.
When the parade happened, no one did anything violent.
Krampus was there. Most people just took pictures with him.
Someone commented that if you ignored the robe and the horns, he basically just looks like any other old dude in our town.
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