# Ho-ho-hold up! Giant Santa Claus terrorizes Cambridgeshire motorway!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-hold-up-giant-santa-claus-terrorizes-cambridgeshire-motorway/825256 "2018-11-29T07:46:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-hold-up-giant-santa-claus-terrorizes-cambridgeshire-motorway/825256/1 "2018-11-29T07:46:25Z")

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[Seriously!](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-46362708)

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> A traffic alert by the AA said the road was “partially blocked - and slow traffic due to a large inflatable Santa on B198 Cromwell Road both ways in Wisbech”.

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> Mr Fareed, a father-of-three from Peterborough, said the giant Santa had broken free from the front garden of a house on Cromwell Road.
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> “I saw it wobble and then come down on to the road - it did raise a smile.”
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> He said two men were attempting to pull the inflatable off the carriageway by the time he passed the scene.
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> “It was massive, bigger than my seven-seater car,” he said.

😃

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**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-hold-up-giant-santa-claus-terrorizes-cambridgeshire-motorway/825256/2 "2018-11-29T08:33:53Z")

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More to the point, I really think people should be banned from decorating their houses before December. How long does Christmas have to be??!

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-hold-up-giant-santa-claus-terrorizes-cambridgeshire-motorway/825256/3 "2018-11-29T14:36:25Z")

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Oh, I could get onboard with that. Where do I sign the petition?