[EAGNEWS.ORG] ABERDARE, Wales -- Santa Claus wasn't thinking of appearances when he left a recent Christmas parade.It turned out Father Christmas needed a ride home after the parade and the local police agreed to give him a lift -- in the back of the riot van.
"Into th' paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Ho ho ho!"
"Police officers said they were helping Santa Claus to get back to the North Pole as he had a 'busy month ahead of him,'" the South Wales Evening Post reports, but children weren't buying it.
"YOUSE LIE!"
After all, Santa was there with his reindeer.
"There were a lot tears -- people couldn't believe it actually happened. My four-year-old cousin started crying saying, 'Santa can't bring me toys now,'" parent Jade Hughes says.
"It was a fantastic event until a police van reversed the whole length of Market Street and took Santa away.
"It left a lot children upset because they thought he had been nabbed
Drop the rosco, Santa, or you're one with the ages!
"You'll never take me alive, coppers!"
. There was a lot of very upset kids thinking Santa wouldn?t be around for them," she tells Wales Online.