‘Real-life Grinch’ captured stabbing inflatable Santa outside family home
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Police are searching for a real-life Grinch who stabbed and deflated a giant inflatable Santa outside a family’s home as they attended a carol service. Emergency medical technician Michael Cook, 40, was singing with his eight-year-old daughter Scarlett in Lowestoft, Suffolk when the unknown suspect stabbed Father Christmas.
![[Shocking video footage shows the moment a Grinch-like attacker stabbed an inflatable Santa outside a family home on a quiet residential street. Eight-year-old Scarlett Cook was left heartbroken following the incident and even asked her dad if she had done something wrong to deserve it. Emergency medical technician Michael Cook, 40, who will be working on Christmas Day, was at a carolling service with his daughter in Lowestoft, Suffolk, when the attacker pounced.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234181183-184e.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Michael says Scarlett was ‘heartbroken’ after seeing the damage, and asked him if she had done something wrong to cause it. He said: ‘Santa is quite an innocent symbol of Christmas, I just don’t understand why someone would do it. Scarlett is heartbroken.’.
![[Shocking video footage shows the moment a Grinch-like attacker stabbed an inflatable Santa outside a family home on a quiet residential street. Eight-year-old Scarlett Cook was left heartbroken following the incident and even asked her dad if she had done something wrong to deserve it. Emergency medical technician Michael Cook, 40, who will be working on Christmas Day, was at a carolling service with his daughter in Lowestoft, Suffolk, when the attacker pounced.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234181186-f065.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
A neighbour said they witnessed the man stab the inflatable but were too scared to confront the man. The witness reached out to Michael and suggested he check his security camera footage. Michael, who works for the East of England Ambulance Service, said: ‘It’s annoying because you’re trying to teach your child right from wrong and something like that happens.
‘They’re like, ‘Have I done something bad, is that why it’s happened?’ I said, ‘No, unfortunately, it’s very poor people’. Despite the bah-humbug act, Michael said he still plans to make a Christmas display again next year. ‘It’s not going to put me off. I will do another one, you can’t hide away. I’m very determined just to carry on.’.
