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    Birmingham house robber, 2011

    Usually when Santa comes to your house, he comes down the chimney. And he doesn’t take anything but some milk and cookies. That wasn’t the case for an unnamed 22 year old woman living in the Quinton suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.

    When she answered a knock on the door to find a man in a Santa costume, he claimed he was collecting for charity. Unfortunately, the charity was himself, as he swiftly punched the woman in the face and gained entry, followed by an accomplice. The nasty Santa demanded gold from the woman, and when her father came home he also got a beatdown from the fists of Claus. The robber then fled without any spoils.