2 January 2008: The Party's Over

If you had a quiet family Christmas here are few stories from the festive period about people who didn't.

New Yorkers vented their anger on 2007 by consigning photographs, letters and annoying cell phones to a giant shredder set up in Times Square. The event was called "Good Riddance Day".

A New Zealand woman pulled a Christmas cracker and got more than a party hat and a joke: it also contained a mouse.

In Chicago the local TV newscast was interrupted with breaking news: a car crashed through the station's glass-walled studio while the station was on air. Nobody was hurt but the announcer reported that the studio had become 'drafty'.

Fire-fighters in Australia had to release a man caught stuck up the chimney of an Australian outback pub; but he wasn't playing Santa Claus - Police think his intention was burglary.

And in Malaysia on Christmas Day a football referee sent off a popular player, and then had to take out his gun and fire warning shots in the air to regain order.