Santa gets parking ticket while delivering toys

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NEW YORK - Santa Claus has added a New York City traffic agent to his naughty list after she gave him a ticket while delivering gifts to children.

Chip Cafiero says he'll fight the $115 ticket he received in Brooklyn on Black Friday when he was dressed as Santa.

The 60-year-old retired schoolteacher was riding a horse-drawn carriage and handing out toys and candy canes. An SUV carrying the toys and protecting the horse from traffic was double parked next to him.

Santa says he yelled "Ho! Ho! Ho!" to get the traffic agent's attention because the SUV wasn't blocking traffic. But in his words, "This grinch just went ahead and fined me."

Local politician Martin Golden calls the parking ticket "ridiculous."

Police won't comment on it.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/12/17/20081217SantaTicket17-ON.html

[rurallib]

1. He yelled "Ho Ho Ho" at a female traffic agent in NYC?

he's lucky a traffic ticket is all he got.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. That happened about 10 minutes from where I live. It was all over the local news.

Those "traffic agents" are truly a waste of taxpayers' money. They have to make it up by giving out tickets so the city can recoup their salaries.

[MazeRat7]

3. Why are there so many mindless "servents"... what happened to "thinking on your own"...

And we wonder where society is headed.

Peace,
MZr7