FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A goat that apparently didn't want to be part of a Minnesota Nativity scene has headed for greener pastures.

The 3-year-old Angora goat was supposed to have a supporting role at Bethlehem Church in Fergus Falls. Instead it escaped its leash Saturday afternoon, and remained on the lam Monday.

Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving, and we at HuffPost Weird News are in the giving spirit right now.

Mostly, we're giving staff writer David Moye the business for his humiliating fall while singing and playing ukulele in front of his son Owen's kindergarten class.

We hope you like this amusingly disastrous performance -- La Mesa Patch did.

Luckily, his wife, Jennifer, captured it so we can share it with you (you can hear her sighing at the end).

Interestingly enough, this is the second chair Moye has broken in a month -- he broke one trying to get out of it at Thanksgiving. That's why we require him to stand up when he's working.

As for Owen, he's gotten a one-of-a-kind gift from the incident. His classmates now tease him that he's "the son of the chairbreaker."

CINCINNATI -- A 1941 fruitcake has sold for $525 to an Arizona man in an Ohio company's online auction, and the money will go to the homeless in southwest Ohio.

Elite Estate Group sold the cake in an auction on its website. Company owner Larry Chaney says the man, who wanted to remain anonymous, probably bought the cake as an investment. Chaney says he doubts anyone would eat a 70-year-old fruitcake even though it was vacuum packed and contained rum that probably helped preserve it.

During the holidays, the Internet becomes a ghost town.

The articles you do find are the same, tired Christmas-themed articles you see every single year.

Cracked.com is helping to streamline your holiday reading by distilling all those articles into four categories.

You're probably not surprised to know that Forbes once declared Santa the world's richest man, but many people don't realize that the manger were Jesus was born was actually a cave.

Those are just a few of the facts about Christmas that not everybody knows.

TheFW.com has 23 more.

As much as you guys think you're being cute and clever with your "Ugly Sweater" Christmas parties, Santa, on the other hand, thinks you're a giant green and red knit-wit.

He takes this season very seriously, and your hideous, tinsel-covered cardigans and obnoxious sweater vests make the popped-collar polo look almost appealing.

So if your holiday attire resembles any one of these 16 ugly sweaters, kindly return it (and the matching dickie) to the first-grade teacher it belongs to. Otherwise, the big man in red will puke his nog and cookies all over your thrift-store ensemble.

Christmas is supposed to be a time to say I love you, but some people bring out more negative reactions.

Unfortunately, there's always one or two of those people on your gift list.

Perhaps these gifts will send the right message.

Modern day Christmas is pretty weird already. It's a conglomeration of legends involving everything from a supernatural home invader with flying pack animals to a talking snowman.

So when it comes time to make holiday decorations, the line between festive and nightmarish is razor thin.

Need proof?

If anyone has a reason to get lit up this Christmas, it's David and Janean Richards. They just set the world record for Most Christmas Lights on a Residential Property.

The Richards, who hail from Forest Act, Australia, a suburb of Canberra, managed to brighten up their home with a whopping 331,038 lights, which set a new record in a new Guinness World Records category.

The initial lightbulb for the record attempt went on in David's head four years ago, and he has spent his spare time since then building up his collection bulb-by-bulb.

''I did it for my kids, initially, and then it just got bigger and bigger,'' Richards told the Canberra Times. ''I remember one year a mother and child came through the driveway thinking no one was around and they started dancing to the music. It's all about putting a smile on people's faces.''

The idea is to raise money for SIDS and Kids (ACT), a charity dedicated to saving babies lives through the elimination of sudden and unexpected infant deaths during pregnancy, birth and childhood, as well as supporting bereaved families and funding research into stillbirth.

The charity helped the family during a time of crisis years ago, and while Richards declines to mention how much the family spent on the record-breaking display of lights, he says any donations made by visitors will go to SIDS and Kids.

Setting the record required hundreds of hours of work, 97,211 feet of LED strings, 15,000 cable ties and a 59-foot light-controlled tree. Then, in order to make it official, the family had to turn on the lights for 10 minutes and make a tape that could be sent to Guinness headquarters in London for confirmation.

Richards saw to it than the folks in Canberra and the judges in London got quite a show.

''It's not just Christmas lights," Richards said. "It goes in colors and waves up and down the driveway, it changes color and the tree spins.''

Although Richards has the official record, Zlatko Salaj, a 67-year old former telecommunications engineer from Croatia, got a lot of press for reportedly stringing up 1 million lights in his display.

As of yet, Salaj hasn't submitted an application to Guinness. But even if he does, Richards has no plans to set a new record. Instead, he hopes to be able to donate the lights to someone else who will use them to raise money for charity.

Check out these photos of holiday lights from around the world:

NORTON, Ohio -- No one spotted Santa Claus, but several drivers say they encountered a reindeer as they drove along a northeast Ohio highway.

Patrolman Kevin Starling grabbed a harness on the reindeer and pulled it out of traffic while an off-duty firefighter stopped oncoming vehicles.

In the summer of 1985,statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary all over Ireland started to move - at least according to the thousands-strong crowds who flocked to see these modern miracles.

But what was going on? Optical illusions? Mass hysteria? A religious revival for hard times? Or something very strange indeed?

As we enter the holiday season so much pressure can develop to spend what you don't have and go greater into debt all in the name of "giving." This holiday season let us all give each other support to be financially responsible and engage in wealth building rather than wealth destruction.

Wealth, or net worth, is the value of a person's assets minus debts. Assets include things such as money in checking or savings accounts, real estate, and stock. Common types of debt include credit card debt, mortgages, and loans. Without any wealth, people are just a paycheck away from financial disaster. It's wealth that makes it possible to pay the bills when unemployment strikes or when illness limits a person's ability to work. It's wealth that allows people to pay for large or unexpected expenses such as a new hot water heater or a new engine. It is important during these tough economic times that celebrating the holidays doesn't inhibit one's ability to save and build wealth. This is particularly important for communities of color.

A recent report published by the Pew Research Center revealed that the wealth divide between whites and people of color hit a record high in 2009, with the median wealth of white households 20 times higher than black households and 18 times higher than Hispanic households. The recession was especially tough on people of color because they faced much higher levels of unemployment that depleted their savings, had a greater percentage of their wealth in homes whose prices plummeted by the burst of the housing bubble, and because people of color were more often targeted for subprime loans that not only cost them more money but left them more vulnerable to foreclosure.

Even before the recession the financial foundation of many families of color was typically insecure as compared to white Americans. Data from the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University revealed that the wealth gap between white and black families more than quadrupled between 1984 and 2007, growing from $20,000 to $95,000 (in constant dollars). Clearly, while the recession may have exacerbated the racial wealth divide, there was a significant problem even before the recession began.

The racial wealth divide is likely to remain even after the economy recovers because this divide is not simply a result of racial differences in employment, income, or investment strategies. The racial wealth divide originated generations ago when people of color were legally and routinely denied the same opportunities as whites. The inequities of the past continue to haunt current generations because parental and family wealth not only affects the amount of inheritance one receives, but also the ability to help current generations become more financially stable, for example, by helping them make a down payment on a home or pay for college. The $95,000 wealth gap between blacks and whites in 2007 means that children of white parents are more likely to be able to afford to go to college debt-free whereas children of black parents will have to assume more debt to attend college. It is this type of reality which demands that communities of color be especially prudent in how we decide to "celebrate" the holidays.

The first thing to remember during this holiday season is that celebrating a holiday does not in itself require high levels of spending. In fact holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa all have a spiritual core that can provide you a cost free foundation for your celebration. Whether you are religious are secular, this year let's make holiday celebrations a celebration of family, tradition, and values instead of unsustainable spending and materialism. We all don't want to disappoint our families, friends and most especially our children so start changing expectations now. Let family, friends, and even your children know that this year you want to celebrate the upcoming holidays by spending special time with them rather than a material gift. Check your community newspaper, library, museums, religious institutions etc. During the next few months there are a plethora of activities many of them free that one can use to spend special time with your loved ones and friends.

The word holiday comes from the pairing of the words holy and day. The word holy stems from the Scottish 'hale' meaning health, happiness and wholeness. You, your family and friends will find much more financial health, over all happiness and wholeness if you do not make the holidays days of greater indebtedness and wealth insecurity.

You won't find these hanging on Bill O'Reilly's tree.

The Swedish Army Museum in Stockholm is coming under fire for selling Christmas tree ornaments shaped like hand grenades.

The Stockholm museum is selling the ornaments to raise money for Christian Aid, a charity that combats poverty and helps with disaster relief. The museum's website says the ornaments are "a subtle reminder of those who are less fortunate than we are during the holiday season," according to UPI.com.

But visitors like Elinor Lindeborg feel the grenade ornaments don't really fit the "peace on Earth, goodwill toward men" sentiment associated with the season.

“Quite simply I think it's distasteful, especially if they are raising money for charity," Lindeborg told Sveriges Television (SVT). "This is a museum frequented by children, and it's hard to explain to them why there are hand grenades in the Christmas trees.”

She believes that even though the ornaments are being sold at an army museum, the gifts sold there should "still try to highlight a non-war perspective," reported TheLocal.se.

The new ornaments are apparently bombing with other Swedes. One woman griped to a Swedish radio show: "How in Lord's name can they come up with such an idiotic idea to make Christmas tree balls shaped like hand grenades? Sick! Shameful.”

Despite the explosive reaction, the museum's division head Helena Martinsson claims the response has been mostly positive.

“Having a decoration like this on the tree can get people to reflect on how good we have it here in Sweden and that there are people who have it much worse,” Martinsson told the Swedish language newspaper The Expressen.

Most people are happy to settle for a Christmas tree with traditional decorations or decorations that have been inherited over the years.

But some geeks, fanboys and nerds prefer to turn Old Tannenbaum into a billboard or advertisement to the things they love, be it Star Wars, Steve Jobs or Facebook.