I first heard about this story on "Paul Harvey News," and his writers must have gotten it from Associated Press. I guess you’d call this a Holiday Story — definitely not a Christmas Story.

The idea of a parade during the Christmas Holidays is traditional in most American towns. But the parade in this story turned out to be anything but traditional.

We’ll call our central character Norbert, although that’s not his real name. You’ll soon see why we’ve changed his name.

So, here’s Norbert driving a pickup truck down Main Street in Anderson, South Carolina, during the annual Christmas parade. Norbert is towing one of the floats. This particular float is for Miz Trudy’s Dance School. That’s not the school’s real name, either. We just don’t want to embarrass any of the little dancing darlin's.

Aboard the school’s float are more than a dozen kiddies and a few adults. The children are dancing in their colorful costumes when Norbert decides to pass a tractor which is just ahead of him. He pulls out of line and zooms around the tractor.

As Norbert — with the parade float and dancers still in tow — begins speeding down Main Street, one of the teachers on the float uses her cellphone to call the cops.

Now the Anderson Police get into the act and are chasing the careening dancing school float as Norbert busts a red light and keeps on traveling. This amazing race goes on for about three miles before the police manage to get Norbert to pull over.

Even after stopping, Norbert gets a bit feisty with one of the arresting cops. In the end, Norbert is taken into custody and to the lockup. None of the riders on the float are injured.

Norbert faces more than 30 charges including 18 counts of kidnapping (dancers and others on the float); assaulting a police officer; and DUI (driving under the influence).

City officials are not commenting on this case — can you blame them! By the time you read this story, Norbert will have already had his bond hearing on the kidnapping charges.

Anderson will have to come up with a brand new theme next year to top this year’s high adventure.