BAD SANTA: "I'LL KILL YOU!"

News has come out about an incident in New York that happened on December 12 during SantaCon. A man in a Santa suit broke the glass door of an apartment building, entered, then pushed his way into a tenant’s apartment when the resident opened the door to see what was happening. Santa fought off the tenant’s struggles to get him out, repeatedly threatening the resident that he had a gun, and telling the tenant, “I’ll kill you!” The victim locked himself in a bathroom and called 911, and the Santa fled to the roof of the building. When the resident came out of the bathroom, he found his apartment ransacked, with clothes and objects thrown all over the place, and a broken glass. Police captured the Santa on the building’s roof, but did not find a gun. The 26-year-old suspect was charged with felony burglary for threatening the use of a weapon, was held on $5,000 cash or $10,000 bond, paid it and was released two days later.
* So Santa can still make the deliveries Christmas Eve, then. Whew! Close one!
* I knew Santa was going to crack sooner or later.
* Sounds like the reindeer really screwed up on the rooftop getaway part.
* Attacked by Santa in your own home. If that’s not the perfect metaphor for the holidays I don’t know what is.
* It was pretty grim. Santa said he had a gun and also threatened to bring the man a Christmas fruitcake.
* “When in the lobby there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.”
* “And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The police charging Santa and they had the proof.”
* But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight –
“Call my lawyer for me, ’cause they’re going to indict!”