Brockville, ON – When Crestview Mall’s Santa Claus showed up to work belligerently drunk and stinking of gin last weekend, parents had to persuade their children that the smell emanating from his corpulent form was just juniper berries.
Despite the unpleasantness of the situation, the majority of the parents opted to stay in line for their turn with Santa as they had been waiting for hours with their children to see him.
One excited child, Mark Walter, 4 years-old, did not seem fazed in the least by the experience: “I liked Santa. Santa smells like grandma!”
Toward the end of his 5-hour shift, the Crestview Mall Santa had descended into manic-depressive behaviours, telling children that if they wanted to know the meaning of “ho ho ho,” they should talk to his ex-wife Brenda.
