Father Christmas's job is hard enough – what with flying around the world in one night, climbing down chimneys and placating recalcitrant reindeer – without adding traffic wardens to his problems.Unfortunately for Santa, however, a traffic warden in New York just got herself added to his naughty list, after she gave him a parking ticket while he was handing out toys to children.
Santa – in this case going under his everyday name of Chip Cafiero – was sitting in a horse drawn carriage instead of the traditional sleigh when the incident occurred. The problem was not so much the carriage, but the even less traditional double-parked SUV sat alongside him to protect the horse from traffic.
Cafiero, who was dressed as Santa at the time, says that he tried to tell the traffic warden that the SUV wasn't blocking traffic.
Regrettably, it appears that he tried to communicate this by shouting 'Ho! Ho! Ho!' at her.
'This grinch just went ahead and fined me,' said Cafiero, a 60-year-old retired schoolteacher.
He now says that he will challenge the $115 ticket (£74) he was given.
Martin Golden, a local politician, described the parking ticket 'ridiculous.' Police declined to comment.
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