This is like a scene from Looney Tunes, and also the most FESTIVE criminal of the year . . .

A 38-year-old guy in Italy tried to hide from the cops . . . by joining a NATIVITY SCENE and pretending to be a Wise Man.

It happened last week in the small town of Galatone. If Italy is a boot, it’s in the heel of the boot.

In Galatone (Lecce), a 38-year-old Ghanaian man wanted by the police hid in the nativity scene, posing like the other statues.

He was discovered by the mayor of the town, who was amazed by the excessive realism of the "shepherd."

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Cops were chasing him, so he tried to lose them by hopping into a life-sized Nativity scene outside a church.  Then he froze in place like a mannequin.  And the crazy part is it almost worked.

They didn’t see him until the town’s mayor noticed movement out the corner of his eye.  They managed to snap a photo of the guy while he was still posed.

He’d gone missing after a judge gave him nine months in jail for assault. He’s now behind bars serving out that sentence. 

(Metro)