Santa compensated after jets scare Rudolph to death

The Danish Air Force today said it had paid 31,175 kroner (€4,102) in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared over his farm.

The animal, named Rudolf, was grazing peacefully at the central Denmark farm of Olavi Nikkanoff when the screaming F-16 jets passed overhead at low altitude in February.