Father Christmas caught in power lines

published 22 December 2020

A man who dressed as Santa Claus and took to the skies above California with his paraglider had to be rescued after becoming entangled in power lines. The fire department in Sacramento released a video showing the man dressed as Santa in the pilot’s seat of the fan-powered aircraft as it dangled above the street. After releasing him, they said: “We made sure Old St Nick will use his reindeer when he sees you later this year.”

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.

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