This story has done the rounds on social media and on most news channels… but with Christmas coming up, we thought it deserved another mention. It’s the tale of Santa Claus robbing a Melbourne post office last week.

Australian police are hunting ‘Santa’ after he entered the post office and demanded money from a female member of staff. She handed over the cash, which he put into… you guessed it… a red sack.

He then swiftly left the post office and jumped into his sleigh, which was double parked, with all his reindeer attached and ready. The one at the front, with a big red nose, was heard to shout, “come on you fat fart… the cops will be hear any minute!” before it lifted into the air and headed north.

OK… the sleigh bit may have been stretching the truth somewhat, he did in fact leave the scene in a cream-coloured Jeep, which, it turns out, had false number plates.
A police spokesperson said that Santa did not appear to have a weapon and no-one was hurt during the crime. They are at present centering their search in the North Pole area and have detained a few local elves, into whose eyes they are shining toy torches, in order to extract the possible whereabouts of Father Felony.

(world, news)