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Santa's Helper Robbed In Mall Parking Lot
Holiday Train's Santa Station Includes Circular Track, Polar Bears
Monday, December 1, 2008 – updated: 8:40 am EST December 1, 2008
BUTLER, Pa. -- State police are looking for whoever robbed a man who operated the holiday toy train ride at a western Pennsylvania mall.Twenty-three-year-old Matthew MacDonald, of Butler, said the robber stole bank bags containing about $700 as he left the Clearview Mall in Butler County, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Police said they've still not found the robber who accosted MacDonald with a knife shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday.MacDonald told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he had the money with him because there is no place to store it in the mall."I had to park way at the end of the parking lot because the mall was pretty packed, and as soon as I got to my car, this guy popped up and said give me the money," MacDonald told the paper. "That's when I saw the knife and told him 'OK, OK, please don't hurt me.'The holiday train's Santa station includes a circular track and waving polar bears.
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