WISCONSIN – A man returning from a holiday party may have been dressed up like Santa, but some kids in Wisconsin knew he wasn’t the real deal.
A man dressed as Santa stumbled onto a Wisconsin family’s yard and was yelling, “Have you seen my reindeer”?
“He smelled like alcohol. So I knew it wasn’t the real Santa because Santa doesn’t drink alcohol,” said 9-year-old Katie Dockerty.
Katie says the Santa that ended up in her lawn was loud, had really dirty hands and tried to put his hat on her little sister.
The girls’ mother called police and Santa was taken into custody.
Police say the Santa, 55-year-old Thomas Arnold, was on his way home from a party. Arnold was ticketed for having an open beer in a car.
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