A motorist suspected to have crashed his car while driving under the influence of alcohol abandoned the Mini Cooper at the scene and hid from police amid the figures of a nearby Nativity scene.
The driver, who crashed into a metal barrier in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, tried to conceal his whereabouts from local police offers by breaking into the crib scene depicting the birth of Jesus, which was housed inside a garden shed 200 metres from where he crashed the car on the A659.
His hiding place was soon discovered, with the local police force posting a picture of the crash on Twitter on Saturday:
Driver runs from RTC in #tadcaster & tries to hide in nativity display. Located & arrested #overthelimitunderarrest pic.twitter.com/TsrSu3zVgs
— NorthYorksPolice RPG (@NYorksRPG) December 12, 2015
The driver's failed attempts to evade police resulted in an escalating series of tweets, with the kind of jokes you'd expect from your Christmas crackers:
@NYorksRPG obviously not one of the wise men
— Bill Simpson (@fc963ec364de471) December 12, 2015
@NYorksRPG ---shame there was "No room at the inn", could have been a different story!
— Malcolm Kettlewell (@mallykay17) December 12, 2015
@NYorksRPG Not even the baby Jesus could save him
— Alan Huddart (@alanhuddart) December 12, 2015
@NYorksRPG @andyp05 God arrest ye merry gentlemen..
— Neil Royce (@royceylufc) December 12, 2015
@NYorksRPG Suggest you charge him with Mangerous Driving.
— Steven Burkeman (@stevenburkeman) December 13, 2015
Even a member of the local Roads Policing Group, Sgt Paul Cording, weighed in on the alleged crime with this word play epiphany:
"Gold" star to my @NYorksRPG colleagues as one "myrrh" drink driver with no (frankin)"cense" is taken off the road👮🚓 https://t.co/zbB2vLrDnz
— Paul Cording (@OscarRomeo1268) December 12, 2015
Members of the security forces all over the world are reminding you not to drink and drive this Christmas.
