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New York City can be a real grinch sometimes, especially if you're a protest movement with a history of antagonizing the authorities. Occupy Wall Street is starting to make its Christmas plans, and as the holiday draws near it's clashed with the municipal and corporate authorities in Zuccotti Park in a couple of ways that really bring out the Scrooge in City Hall. Both incidents have to do with the ban on a whole array of items in Zuccotti Park, which park owner Brookfield Office Properties continues to enforce with the help of the New York Police Department and a ring of metal barricades.

On Tuesday, a couple of protesters tried to bring a Christmas tree into Zuccotti Park, and a cop ended up throwing it out. "The security guards told them to get rid of it, and they said 'no we don't want to, it's Christmas,' and then a cop told them to take it out of the park," so they went and leaned it standing up against the barricade, said Tim Pool, a videographer who documents much of Occupy's activity through a UStream channel. "The cop went and threw it on the curb, next to the street, and they stood it back up, and then another cop came and threw it by the garbage can," Pool said. And that's where it ended up.