SantaCon bar crawl in New York City off to early start

More than five dozen bars, pubs, karaoke spots and raves, from the East Village to midtown, are participating in the seasonally scorned, Yuletide bacchanal. It began Saturday morning outside Penn Station with Christmas carols, discounted booze, and hundreds of Santas and his helpers, and radiated across Manhattan.  (Credit: Newsday / Matthew Chayes)