{"id":183354,"date":"2014-12-18T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/18\/ho-ho-ho\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:26:00","slug":"ho-ho-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/18\/ho-ho-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho \u2026\u2026\u2026 Ho \u2026\u2026\u2026 Ho \u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6WYMtCQ.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6WYMtCQ.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Red and white as camouflage<\/i><\/div>\n<p>You may have heard about the SantaCon, a costumed pubcrawl that has, since its founding in (where else?) San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, it has been the accompanied by drunkenness, violence, public urination, and general mischief.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a criminal mastermind, in what is certain to be a movie or a cable release in the next 18 months, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathandtaxesmag.com\/232576\/guy-in-santa-costume-pulls-off-genius-bank-heist-during-santacon\/\">robbed a bank disguised as Santa and then vanished in the crimson clad crowd<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Roughly after 1 p.m. on Saturday, at the peak of SantaCon debauchery, a 40-something white man in a Santa suit walked into a San Francisco bank and handed the teller a note demanding money. The teller handed him an undisclosed amount of cash, and then\u2014like in the St. Patrick\u2019s Day scene from \u201cThe Fugitive\u201d\u2014the man walked outside and disappeared into the crowd of Santas.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">So far, the police have made no arrests, and it seems very likely the man might actually get away. It was a perfect heist\u2014a festive, vomit-soaked \u201cOcean\u2019s 11.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My only question is whether this was a run of the mill criminal who had a bright idea, or a really smart guy.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s the former, he&#8217;ll do something stupid now that he has the money.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s the latter, this guy will be calling a literary agent when the statute of limitations runs out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red and white as camouflage You may have heard about the SantaCon, a costumed pubcrawl that has, since its founding in (where else?) San Francisco. Increasingly, it has been the accompanied by drunkenness, violence, public urination, and general mischief. Well, a criminal mastermind, in what is certain to be a movie or a cable release &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1052,1102,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-crimes","category-intelligence","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}