Parking Santa''''s festive gifts
Express and Star
A good samaritan, named the Parking Ticket Santa, is giving Birmingham shoppers early Christmas presents by paying off their £30 parking tickets.
Motorists hit with fines in the city centre are finding Christmas cards alongside them on their windscreens.
Caroline Howard, of Walsall, peeled her fine notice off the window to find a card underneath with £30 inside.
A note inside read: "Don't let this ticket spoil your Christmas, here's £30 to pay it off. Merry Christmas."
The card was signed "Parking Ticket Santa" and was addressed to Christmas ticketing victim 14, suggesting 13 other people have also received the gift.
If that was the case the mystery benefactor would have shelled out £420 on other people's tickets so far.
Miss Howard, a 27-year-old sales assistant, said she was delighted to find the card on her silver Renault Megane which was parked near the Mailbox.
She said it was the first parking ticket she had received in seven years of driving and she had only been 15 minutes late in returning to her car in the city centre.
Her dismay was eased when she found the card along with a £20 and £10 note as she tore the ticket from her windscreen. She said: "At first I thought it was a joke and kept looking round for the person who left it there.
"When I couldn't see anyone I was shocked but really happy.
"I still can't believe it. It's such a generous thought and goes to show there are kind-hearted people in the world.
"Maybe Santa really does exist after all."
A spokesman for Control Plus, the company which dishes out tickets in the city centre, said it was not a generous traffic warden handing out the cash. The spokesman said: "I think it must be someone's idea of a joke, but I guess it must be a pleasant surprise for whoever got them."
Other shoppers parking in the city have been clueless as to the identity of the secret Santa.
Shopper Max Smith, 39, joked that he saw plenty of rosy-faced old men in Birmingham at this time of year. He said: "They have usually just fallen out of the pub.
"I have never seen any of them go home with the help of a reindeer, although I have seen some of them leave the pub with the odd moose."
A good samaritan, named the Parking Ticket Santa, is giving Birmingham shoppers early Christmas presents by paying off their £30 parking tickets.
Motorists hit with fines in the city centre are finding Christmas cards alongside them on their windscreens.
Caroline Howard, of Walsall, peeled her fine notice off the window to find a card underneath with £30 inside.
A note inside read: "Don't let this ticket spoil your Christmas, here's £30 to pay it off. Merry Christmas."
The card was signed "Parking Ticket Santa" and was addressed to Christmas ticketing victim 14, suggesting 13 other people have also received the gift.
If that was the case the mystery benefactor would have shelled out £420 on other people's tickets so far.
Miss Howard, a 27-year-old sales assistant, said she was delighted to find the card on her silver Renault Megane which was parked near the Mailbox.
She said it was the first parking ticket she had received in seven years of driving and she had only been 15 minutes late in returning to her car in the city centre.
Her dismay was eased when she found the card along with a £20 and £10 note as she tore the ticket from her windscreen. She said: "At first I thought it was a joke and kept looking round for the person who left it there.
"When I couldn't see anyone I was shocked but really happy.
"I still can't believe it. It's such a generous thought and goes to show there are kind-hearted people in the world.
"Maybe Santa really does exist after all."
A spokesman for Control Plus, the company which dishes out tickets in the city centre, said it was not a generous traffic warden handing out the cash. The spokesman said: "I think it must be someone's idea of a joke, but I guess it must be a pleasant surprise for whoever got them."
Other shoppers parking in the city have been clueless as to the identity of the secret Santa.
Shopper Max Smith, 39, joked that he saw plenty of rosy-faced old men in Birmingham at this time of year. He said: "They have usually just fallen out of the pub.
"I have never seen any of them go home with the help of a reindeer, although I have seen some of them leave the pub with the odd moose."
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