In Australia, some families like to go camping during Christmas. One family set up their campsite near a creek. On Christmas morning, they woke up to find a platypus swimming right by their tent. It was such an unexpected and cool sight. They named the platypus 'Christmas Platypus' and it became a part of their Christmas story. The kids were so excited to tell their friends back home about their unique Christmas encounter.
A group of friends in Australia once decided to do a Secret Santa gift exchange on Christmas Eve. One guy got a really big box as his gift. When he opened it, he found a life - sized inflatable kangaroo. He had no idea what to do with it at first. But then they all started having races with it around the yard. It was a really silly and fun Christmas activity that made everyone laugh.
A funny story involves wombats. Wombats are known for their rather square poop. There was this one time when a wildlife photographer was trying to get a shot of a wombat and accidentally stepped on one of its poops. The wombat just stared at the photographer as if it was offended. It was really hilarious.
A family once got a real live reindeer as a Christmas surprise. But the reindeer was very naughty. It ran around the house knocking over the Christmas tree and eating all the cookies left for Santa. Everyone was chasing it all over the place until they finally caught it and tied it outside. It was a very chaotic but funny Christmas day.
There was a bookstore that during Christmas, a customer accidentally ordered 50 copies of the same children's Christmas book instead of just 5. The store owner was a bit worried at first. But then he made a 'Christmas book club' event where they read that book together every day leading up to Christmas. It was so popular that all the books got sold.
Well, there's this one where a dog mistook the Christmas stockings for chew toys. It pulled them down and started chewing on them, scattering all the treats that were inside. It was chaos but also really funny. Another story involves a dog that got so excited by all the Christmas decorations that it ran around the house, knocking over several small Christmas trees in the process.
There's a story of an elf who wanted to test Santa's sleigh. He jumped in and accidentally released all the reindeer. The sleigh went zooming around the North Pole without any control, and the elf was screaming the whole time. It was really funny.
Well, once a police officer found a drunk man singing Christmas carols at the top of his lungs in the middle of the street on Christmas night. Instead of arresting him right away, the officer joined in for a while, which made the man calm down and then he escorted him home safely.
A really funny story is of an elf named Peppermint. He was trying to test the reindeer's bells and accidentally got tangled up in them. He was jingling all over the place as he tried to free himself and the reindeer were looking at him like he was crazy.
A funny story is that a little boy wrote a letter to Santa asking for a real live dinosaur. On Christmas morning, his parents found a plush dinosaur with a note from Santa saying that real dinosaurs were too big for his sleigh. The boy was both disappointed and amused at the same time.
A funny ridiculous Christmas story is when Santa's sleigh got a flat 'tire' (a reindeer hoof went wrong). So, he had to land at a local auto repair shop. The mechanics there were stunned to see Santa and his reindeer. They tried to fix the sleigh using their regular tools and in the end, they used some old bicycle parts. Santa managed to continue his journey but the sleigh looked really strange.
A common Australian Christmas story could be about the Christmas bush. It's a native plant that has bright red leaves during the Christmas season. People often use it as a decoration, and there are stories passed down about how it became associated with Christmas. Some say that early settlers were reminded of the holly back in their home countries and started using the Christmas bush in a similar way for Christmas celebrations.