Mommy, Why Does Santa Have No Clothes?

A
startling sight met Christmas shoppers on stylish Newbury Street in downtown
Boston yesterday. In a budding if non-traditional tradition, a scantily
clad squadron of Santas were racing down the street in the 5th Annual
Speedo
Santa
Run for Charity.

This year’s run attracted over 150 chilly Kris Kringles
in 30-degree weather, and raised more than $20,000, although it almost
never got off the mark. Organizing tavern Daily Buchanan’s was cited mere
hours before the race for lacking a public events permit for the charity
event, which has doubled in size every year since it began in 2000 with
4 Santas.

No word on how perplexed parents explained the sight to
equally perplexed tots.  How about "Santa’s helpers are trying to lose
some weight"?

story from the Boston Globe

Speedo Santa
Run web site