'Tis the season for
deranged elves, I guess.
A bad Santa's elf swapped holiday cheer for fear when he waited in line for St. Nick in a suburban Atlanta shopping center and started babbling about "dynamite," police said Thursday.
The man, dressed in tights and a jingle bell-adorned red and green jacket, jumped in line to get his photo taken with Santa Claus Wednesday evening at Southlake Mall in Morrow, Ga.
Santa overheard the rouge elf use the words "dynamite" twice, prompting a call to mall security.
Mall security called in the local cops, who evacuated "several thousand" shoppers from the mall about 7 p.m. Bomb squads were called to search the elf's two duffel bags.
No dynamite ever turned up, only a Santa hat, an elf hat and other clothing that belonged to William Caldwell III, 45. He's a small man, at 5 feet tall, 108 pounds from Morrow, Ga., police said. He was arrested at the scene.
"He has made some statements - they didn't make much sense," said Morrow police Capt. James Callaway.
He was probably just looking for James Caan.
'Tis the season for deranged elves, I guess.
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