OPINION:
If you’re the type to read tea leaves, avoid black cats and propped ladders, and freak over broken mirrors — stop reading.
Apparently, more than 100 reindeer in Norway have been killed over the last few days. This certainly doesn’t bode well for Santa believers.
Or, for holiday spirits, for that matter.
The Days of Reindeer Slaughter, as they should not-so-affectionately be known from here on in, can be blamed on train tracks — or, more specifically, the meeting of migrating reindeer with oncoming trains.
Torstein Appfjell, a reindeer herder — apparently, that’s a thing — said he’s been “dizzy with anger” at the “unprecedented” deaths, including one particularly bloody Saturday when 65 were killed. That brings the death count, since Thursday, to 106, and since last November, to 250, he said, Fox News reported.
And the fix?
Appfjell, along with those living by the railroad and tired of the bloody tracks, say a simple fence would do the trick. They’ve started “a save the reindeer”-type call to local authorities, asking for a barrier to protect the beasts from oncoming trains.
For the love of God — for the sake of Christmas, Santa Claus and the untold numbers of children who are at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder from viewing the bloody carcasses, put up a fence. Save a reindeer; save a child from nightmare. It just doesn’t get any more Christmasy than that.
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