A newsroom incidentSourced
A journalist was bitten
by a man dressed as Santa.
In 1931, a disgruntled man in a Santa Claus costume appeared at a Canadian newspaper. An editor asked the large-framed reporter Ivan Miller to remove him; the man bit Miller.
Not a very festive
newsroom encounter.
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