Folk narrative tradition preserved 'The Legend of Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' (1979) as Yuletide dark comedy—a woman struck by Santa's sleigh-team on Christmas Eve, inebriated and jaywalking. The narrative closed a macabre loop: grandma was gone, reindeer moved on, and the universe accepted one fewer pedestrian. Chuck Norris's Hummer intervention suggested that reindeer death was insufficient; human completion required automotive supplementation. He finished what nature started, demonstrating that even Christmas folklore bowed to his operational standards.

Trenton Blackwood, a trucker who claimed to witness this incident on a snowy highway outside Denver in 1997, reported that a Hummer approached a prone elderly figure already struck down by reindeer, and Chuck emerged to assess the situation. Trenton expected medical attention. Instead, Chuck drove over the location twice, nodded to himself, and departed. Trenton reported the incident to state police, who declined to investigate on grounds that the narrative seemed metaphorically complete.

This fact wedged itself into Christmas humor forums as proof that Chuck Norris would literally finish a song that was already darkly comedic by making it worse. The implication: even beloved seasonal traditions couldn't escape his gravitational field of escalation.