How Often Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction?

On December 19, 2010 police in East Providence, Rhode Island received a 911 call. Santa had robbed a local bar. According to the bartender, 37-year-old Cristal Johnson, and armed man in a Santa suit - complete with white beard - had taken money from the cash register. Santa was a wanted man until Christmas eve when Johnson turned herself in, admitted the story was a hoax and was charged with making a false police report. However, $1,500-$3,000 was still missing. Although it sounds like the MO of the "Grinch Who Stole Christmas", Johnson could still have been "toying" with the truth.

Aaron B. Tobey, a 21-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia and a student at Cincinnati University, was issued a citation for disorderly conduct on December 30, 2010. It seems that Tobey had stripped down to his underwear at a security checkpoint at the Richmond International Airport in protest against airport screening procedures. Across his chest he had scrawled a reference to the U.S. Constitution's 4th amendment - protection against unreasonable search and seizure. Of course, since he had planned to take his shirt off, he could have also scrawled a reference to the 2nd amendment - the right to "bare" arms.

John Finch, a 44-year-old man from Delaware, broke into a house by climbing through a rear window and proceeded to stay for several days while he drank 3 bottles of gin and 2 bottles of whiskey. It seems Finch had broken into the same house 9 months before, which caused the owner to install locks requiring a key to get both in and out. When he was ready to leave, Finch couldn't walk out a door and he was too drunk to climb back through the rear window. He solved his problem by calling 911. When help came, it was a "sobering experience".

Finally, Luke Weiment, a 26-year-old Minnesotan, thought he was doing a good deed when he drove an elderly acquaintance to the bank. Seventy-year-old Sandra Bathke rented an apartment from his mother and needed money to pay her rent. Imagine how surprised Weiment was when police stopped him and took both Bathke and him into custody. It seems the elderly woman had told one of the tellers she had a gun, demanded money and left with $3,700. Then she got back into Weiment's Jaguar and he unknowingly became the getaway driver. Needless to say, Weiment is being more "carful" about good deeds.

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