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PHOTOS: Drunken Santas Brawl, Vomit And Tangle With NYPD

Hundreds of red-suited revelers flooded Manhattan for the annual SantaCon bar crawl Saturday.

EAST VILLAGE, NY — Hundreds of debaucherous Kris Kringles packed Manhattan's streets for Saturday's annual SantaCon bar crawl — and several Santas landed on the NYPD's naughty list.

Costumed revelers swarmed Midtown and the East Village leaving behind a trail of beer, vomit and abandoned Santa hats.

The NYPD had its hands full, issuing 50 summonses and arresting two Santas who couldn't handle their holiday spirits, police said Monday.

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Officers cuffed Antonio Smith, 38, outside rooftop bar 230 Fifth on Fifth Avenue, just off W. 27th Street in Chelsea, for punching a 24-year-old woman in the face. The resident of upstate New Windsor was charged with assault, police said.

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Another Santa suit-clad partier was arrested, this time on the corner of Second Avenue and E. ninth St. in the East Village where officers said they saw him carrying narcotics. Village resident John Murray, 19, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, cops said.



And there were plenty of other booze-fueled shenanigans happening across the borough including a brawl involving more than a dozen Santas that spilled into traffic, Instagram video shows.

As SantaCon festivities went full bore, numerous social media posts of trashed streets, subway cars and Santas emerged.


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The spectacle has grown into an international event with more than 60 SantaCons in the U.S. and across the globe. Saturday marked the bar crawl's 20th anniversary.


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