Christmas present
Father Christmas wore his bright red outfit and black boots to court — and received a present for himself. Robert George, who said he had been playing Father Christmas for the last 26 years, asked a Los Angeles judge to dismiss a SUSS6 traffic fine. The judge did so, and wished George a very merry Christmas. “It went great,” George, aged 60, said later. “I let the judge have a ‘ho, ho, ho.’ ” y — T
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Press, 21 October 1983, Page 16
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