Boy Sees Mommy Doing More Than Kissing Santa Claus; Resulting Video Banned From YouTube

An unnamed 18-year-old male, on winter vacation from Cornell University and whose name has been withheld by authorities, witnessed his mother doing more than just kissing Santa Claus, and the video he made with a videocamera he received Christmas Eve was banned from YouTube after receiving more than 3 million hits.

“We don’t know how this one got through the system,” Erica Johnson, a deeply embarrassed spokesperson for YouTube told a hastily assembled Mountain View, California news conference. “Must have been because our review process was cut short for the Christmas holiday.”

In the grainy, blurry video, a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit is heard whispering “Ho, ho, ho, kiss me under the mistletoe!” and then reveals a belt buckle with what appears to be a mistletoe design.

The video becomes very hard to view at that point, due to the apparent inexperience of the cameraman operating his new gift. At that point, Santa backs into the Christmas tree, which falls to the floor. Some activity deemed inappropriate by YouTube takes place, and the resulting video rocketed to the top of the Yuletide online hit parade.

“All we can say is we’re sorry,” Johnson told reporters. “We have to be a little more, you know, selective about what our members are allowed to put up without review. I mean, the first minute and a half were totally innocent, so I guess somebody just okayed it without going all the way to the end.”

Johnson said that she was looking into reports that “Santa” was actually the young man’s father and that he had been running his own video camera at the time of the incident, and that the couple was “surprised” that their son was also making a video.

“We can’t comment on that,” Johnson said. “But from what we've heard, if another video of the same scene, shot from a different angle altogether, with a high quality, high resolution video camera, and made by a neighbor of the couple wearing a reindeer outfit, turns up somewhere else on the Internet, we here at YouTube wouldn’t be surprised.”