A santa in Western Wisconsin is lucky he didn’t end up in the slammer.
Sparta Police say they received several calls Sunday afternoon of an alleged drunk driver who had a passenger dressed like Santa Claus.
One caller said at one point, the “Santa” stumbled from his vehicle, approached several children playing in a yard, began to hug them and demanded to know where his reindeer were.
Officers found the car and arrested the 47-year-old driver for alleged drunk driving. The man dressed as Santa, 55-year-old Thomas Arnold, was given a ticket for having an open intoxicant in the car. He was released at the scene.
How does that conversation start off? “Hey let’s get shit house, creep out some kids, and find some fuckin’ reindeer”? I don’t know about you but if I was a child and Santa came rushing towards me, hugging me, smelling of booze and the streets and demanding to know where Rudolph was, I’d probably shit my pants. Then again if the shoe was on the other foot and I was in a Santa costume, probably coming from a mall I worked at, realizing I was worthless to the world, I’d be smashed too.
source: wsaw.com
Tags: drunk, drunk driving, Reindeer, Rudolph, Santa
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