Santa Robs Bank During SantaCon Event in San Francisco

A bank robber dressed as Santa Claus stole a bag full of cash from a San Francisco bank and fled into a sea of Santas during the city’s SantaCon event Saturday.

"Any other day, Santa would have stood out," police Sgt. Monica MacDonald said, according to The Los Angeles Times, "but that day Santa was everywhere."

The robber handed a teller a note and said he had a gun, though no weapon was seen, the newspaper reported.

SantaCon is a citywide pub crawl in which hundreds of people dress as Santa.

The Santa suspect was described as a man in his 40s or 50s about 5 feet, 11 inches tall, the San Francisco Examiner reported.

Twitter users responded to the story with amusement.

Best use of SantaCon I’ve seen. Cover for a bank robbery: http://t.co/B0lqoH04VA

— Ryan Singel (@rsingel) December 16, 2014

I knew this would happen. I called it that this would happen. Man dressed as Santa robs bank during SF Santacon http://t.co/2pKhIbfNO4

— Anna (@AnnaEscher) December 15, 2014

While I can't condone robbing a bank, I gotta admit, doing it in a Santa suit during SantaCon is pretty genius. http://t.co/vyEZpFFntb

— Brian Fulda (@brianfulda) December 15, 2014

Santa robs bank during Santacon. This is awesome, actually http://t.co/AqQ1r735QQ #santacon #bankrobbery

— Chris Tolles (@tolles) December 15, 2014

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