Santa Practices Crash Landing With Skydiving Lessons

Skyspaners in Santa Claus costumes spane in formation over Sydney to launch the new festive experiences range by an Australian online experience company, at Picton on December 17, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. The gift experience company's festive offerings include tandem skyspanes with Santa, Bondi Bash with Santa boating experience, a trip to the North Pole to find Santa and snowmobiling in Lapland. (Getty Images)more pics »Every year around this time, we start to see some pretty great stories and photos involving people dressed up like Santa Claus. (Like this Santa whose sleigh was ticketed for double parking)

But Santa has been done to death hasn't he? How can one improve on the fattest lie told to children? Well these Australian sky divers have taken it upon themselves to kick it up a notch by dressing up like Jolly St. Nick and jumping out of airplanes.

The whole thing was a publicity stunt for an Internet company, but what I find more interesting is that if you live in the Dallas area, you actually can have Santa Claus skydive into your party.

I found this brief posting on craigslist:

11/25-12/7: SKYspanING SANTA (DFW)

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Reply to: event-933725481@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-11-25, 11:35AM CST


Have SANTA arrive at your event via parachute. Price depends on landing area. Please call for a quote. Call 817 714 9971 Sounds pretty awesome to me. And it's totally more convincing than dressing a drunk uncle like Santa Claus for the kids.

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