And for the presumably hundreds of kids in the crowd, the spirit of Christmas has been ruined forever. Unless someone just started water boarding Santa mid parade I can't think of anything more traumatic to kids than seeing their cute, fury, beloved Rudolph impaled through the head by the directional light. Just listen to the guy at the 1:27 mark, NOOOO! Absolutely devastated, and he's clearly a grown man. I actually teared up a bit seeing that deflated nose falling slowly to the ground. Just an unnecessary tragedy.
No one thought to just take a slight detour around the light post? Would two seconds of marching on the side walk produce mass chaos or something? This wasn't the Macy's Day Parade or anything, there was like 1,000 people tops, I'm sure they could have moved for a second.
