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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:43 am
by mewrio
iisryan27 @ Dec 20 2004, 08:13 AM wrote:
In the song The Night Santa Went Crazy, why were the FBI and national guard in on Santa's arrest? Our government isn't supposed to take care of foreign criminals. That's up to the North Polian police.
Wouldn't the FBI have some kind of international juristriction? It's not like they track down an international crime gang and give up when they hop on a plane. Or perhaps part of the North Pole belongs to the US, as does part of the South Pole.
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:45 am
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If a crime is committed in America and the criminal flees, we can search for them or make the other country give them back but a crime committed in the North Pole has nothing to do with America and wouldn't be pursued.
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:48 am
by mewrio
iisryan27 @ Dec 20 2004, 08:45 AM wrote:
If a crime is committed in America and the criminal flees, we can search for them or make the other country give them back but a crime committed in the North Pole has nothing to do with America and wouldn't be pursued.
Well, considering the North Pole doesn't exist for half the year, wouldn't there be some kind of temporary workshop, perhaps in America, that Santa and The Elves could use during summer?
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:55 am
by weird_el
They should've called the Mounties.
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:58 am
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It doesn't exist for half the year?
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:22 am
by mewrio
Well a few people *cough*teachers*cough* have told me it melts during summer. Is that true?
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:48 am
by Orthography Enthusiast
Teachers!
The North Pole always exists; it's a magnetic phenomenon! Whether the ice is there year-round is something about which I have no information.
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:05 am
by mewrio
The North Pole started melting in 2000. However, TNSWC was written in '96, so my possible explanation doesn't work.
Who actually owns the North Pole? If it was a country which relied on US support, maybe they allow US Agencies juristriction there?
Or, the simplest explanation would be that Santa, for one reason or another, went to the US and therefore the National Guard and the FBI found him.
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:35 am
by anthontherun
But if the crime wasn't committed in the U.S., the most they could do is deliver him back to be tried in the North Pole...so it's a moot point.
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:45 am
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I don't think that the North Pole could ever physicly melt and refreeze, especially multiple times.