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Brennan Linsley / AP
Volunteers take phone calls from children asking where Santa is and when he will deliver presents to their house during the annual NORAD Tracks Santa Operation, at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Dec. 24.
Brennan Linsley / AP
Volunteer Katherine Beaupre takes phone calls at NORAD.
Over a thousand volunteers at NORAD handle more than 100,000 thousand phone calls from children around the world every Christmas Eve as NORAD charts Santa's progress around the globe. The program began in 1955 when a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Read more
Track Santa through NORAD's website.
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Okay, I get the people with the headphones are answering the phones on the right, folks on the left have computers, no phones so probably need all those computers to track the dude in the red outfit over different countries for different kids.
I get there are more folks way on the left that have headphones, some folks way on the right have more headphones. I get the mirror glass in the room way in back below the clock, watching over everything all the folks are doing.
What I want to know is.....What is the real reason for the two, count them,2 yellow rolls of duct tape on the table in front of the pretty blond lady talking to the cute dark haired lady in the uniform at the front left corner of the table! Who happens to be the only one getting instructions, while a training manual is clearly in front of her on the table.Have they duct taped these volunteers to their chairs, their feet to the floor?
(tongue in cheek here folks, if you have a better idea, let's here it please.) I don't see any tape used anywhere in the room.I should also point out, the third guy on the right side of the table in the big picture looks mighty weird, and in the small photo of volunteer Katherine Beaupre, that military guy in the background sorta just creeps me out a little with the way he is almost leering:P