An absent-minded bank robber dressed as Santa Claus will spend Christmas in an Australian jail, after he forgot about his pants.

Gregory Harland-White, 40, planned to rob a bank in a small town on Australia's island state Tasmania dressed as Santa Claus, dump the suit in a horse trailer and get away on a bicycle, The Mercury newspaper in Tasmania reported.

After using two pieces of pipe taped together to look like a gun to rob the bank of A$13,451 (US$9,963), Harland-White headed for his getaway bicycle, parked some distance away.

But he forgot to take off his Santa pants and was caught before he reached the bicycle. Harland-White pleaded guilty to bank robbery in a court in Tasmania on Tuesday and is awaiting sentencing.

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