Happy Holidays! "Elf" threatens to blow Santa up with dynamite

By at 9:03 pm Thursday, Dec 3

A 45-year-old Atlanta man put on an elf costume, headed to a shopping mall, got in line to have his picture taken with Santa, then told Santa he was packin' dynamite. Police arrested the elf, and charged him with possessing hoax devices (memories of Boston!) and making terror threats. The mugshot's priceless. So is this local news headline.

Read more 

Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing partner, Boing Boing Video host and executive producer. Xeni.net, Twitter, Google+. Email: xeni@xeni.net.

Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.