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Officials: Man Dressed As Santa Tried Passing Out Candy While Flying, Got Caught In Power Lines

Eric Quintanar
Officials: Man Dressed As Santa Tried Passing Out Candy While Flying, Got Caught In Power Lines
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A man dressed as Santa Claus got snared on a trip through a Northern California city Sunday morning after flying his glider-type craft into a neighborhood’s power lines.

The man, who was not identified, purportedly took off from Rio Linda, California — on what officials initially believed was a hang glider but later said was a “hyper light” — with the goal of giving out candy from mid-air when he got tangled up in the electrical grid, according to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department. He was not injured in the incident.

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