Antarctic jackass hippie smackdown

Two men, one with a suspected broken jaw, have been airlifted from the Antarctic's most remote research facility after an incident described as a "drunken Christmas punch-up".

The brawl happened at the US-operated Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, located at the heart of the frozen continent. The station, where staff carry out a range of scientific investigations from astrophysics to seismology, is currently being rebuilt in a £76m project.

After reports of the fight reached staff at McMurdo station, the headquarters of the US Antarctic Programme, which is located on Ross Island, a US Air Force Hercules was sent to pick up the injured man and the other worker.

They were flown back to McMurdo, but it was decided the man's injuries were too serious to be treated in Antarctica and he was taken on to Christchurch, New Zealand, accompanied by a nurse and a paramedic.

Many of the McMurdo staff had been expecting a day off for Christmas but support workers returned to work to deal with the rare emergency medical evacuation. More here:

Now -- you gotta wonder what critical hypothesis these two hippie-ass, greenpeace flower children had to argue about. Perhaps they disagreed about whose sandals were the most comfy -- or who made the best herbal shampoo.

Whatever the reason, those jackasses got into the firewater when they should have stuck to their -- uh -- you know -- hippie-nite-nite.

Now -- if it were THE KLOWN who got called in on his day off to fly the helicopter for one of these jackasses, I'd have been blaring this song from the chopper's PA system.

Outta the car, long hair

You're comin' with me

The local police

Then, I'd have had some real "gusty winds" and a real "touchy stick on this baby" to deal with while carrying this idiot to the hospital -- capisce? I think you do.