Not a wise man.
A man suspected of crashing his car due to drink driving attempted to escape police by hiding in a nativity scene.
The man crashed his Mini Cooper into a metal barrier on the Leeds Road in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, during the early hours of Saturday morning. He fled from the car and hid in a large crib depicting the birth of Jesus situated about 200 metres from the accident.
Driver runs from RTC in #tadcaster & tries to hide in nativity display. Located & arrested #overthelimitunderarrest pic.twitter.com/TsrSu3zVgs
— NorthYorksPolice RPG (@NYorksRPG) December 12, 2015
According to The Telegraph, North Yorkshire Police located the suspect hidden beneath the hay at the Christmas nativity scene.
Folk online had somewhat of a field day with the news, and it goes without saying that the remainder of this article contains puns.
@NYorksRPG Suggest you charge him with Mangerous Driving. — Steven Burkeman (@stevenburkeman) December 13, 2015
@NYorksRPG @andyp05 God arrest ye merry gentlemen.. — Neil Royce (@royceylufc) December 12, 2015
@NYorksRPG —shame there was “No room at the inn”, could have been a different story!
— Malcolm Kettlewell (@mallykay17) December 12, 2015
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