Holidazed, Part I

There are entirely too many funny Christmas-related stories to save them all for the big day, so here's a stocking full of them now:

A man in Louisiana landed in jail for tackling and popping an inflatable snowman. (Last year's "open season on Frosty" stories can be found at the bottom of this post.)

• In Vermont, a "Mystery Santa" has been handing envelopes of cash to complete strangers in front of local retailers.


• And in another case of "drive-by kindness," someone has been mysteriously decorating trees along a New Jersey parkway.


• They'll need that kind of help in Santa Barbara, California, where suspected drunk driver crashed her car into the city's 50-foot Christmas tree.


• And finally, just like in many places around the world, a Christmas card arrived this week in Kansas. But unlike the others, this one reached its destination 93 years late.

I'll have another installment of this next week, probably on Christmas itself.