Santa’s traded in his sleigh and reindeer for a pair of sizzling wheels and a disregard for the regulation.
A motorcyclist dressed as Santa Claus outran Florida police in a high-speed chase Saturday evening, leaving the cops within the mud as he went on his merry manner, wild dashcam footage exhibits.
The legal Kringle was dashing via Beverly Hills, Fla. at a breakneck 120 miles per hour when a freeway patrol trooper caught him haphazardly weaving out and in of site visitors, officers stated.
Dashcam footage from the trooper’s automobile exhibits the officer gaining on the not-so-Saint Nick after the motorcyclist refused to decelerate for a site visitors cease.
“Santa” veered via a number of lanes of site visitors whereas making an attempt to shake off the persistent trooper in sizzling pursuit, the clip exhibits.
He finally reduce via a gasoline station and looped again round onto the primary street, slowing down the trooper’s cumbersome car, earlier than disappearing into the December nightfall, in response to the video.
“The sleigh must be in the shop, but last night Mr. Claus didn’t pause for any cause. Anyone that recognizes ol’ St. Nick please feel free to call *FHP (*347) and let us know!” the Florida Freeway Patrol -Tampa wrote on X.
Authorities are nonetheless trying to find the slippery Santa. He was seen driving a white bike with a blue trim, a far cry from the actual Saint Nick’s pink sleigh.
The motorcycle-riding Santa wasn’t the one one on the naughty checklist this yr.
Vacation deviance on the roads has been throughout this season.
In Texas, a truck driver additionally making an attempt to flee a police pursuit drove his car via a JCPenney, injuring a number of consumers earlier than he was gunned down by a slew of authorities together with the cops chasing him, mall safety, and off-duty officers by the way on the mall.
Off the roads, different family vacation characters have been tussling within the streets.
In Mexico, two road performers dressed because the Grinch and Santa Claus duked it out over a tip dispute. An injured Saint Nick had apparently been slugged, and each males had been arrested.
