A Santa, who parked his car in a mother and child space at a shopping centre in the UK, has been given a ticket.
Father Christmas said he was "stunned" to receive the notice for wrongly parking at Thornaby's Pavilion Shopping Centre in Stockton-on-Tees in north east England.
"Santa Claus gets a parking ticket? It's unheard of," he told the BBC.
People on Facebook called for the parking attendant to get a lump of coal for Christmas, but the centre defended the ticket saying it was "unfortunate".
Sam Wise, who photographed the incident, said Santa was "fuming" when he returned to discover he had been fined on Tuesday.
Santa said: "I parked at Thornaby to do a few little jobs as I'm busy this time of year, and I parked at the parent and toddler bay and put my disabled blue badge in the window.
"I came back about half an hour later and they had put a ticket on my car.
"I was in my silver sleigh, and I was stunned."
Well-wishers have rallied around Santa after he was given a ticket for parking in the wrong space.
Leslie Harrison wrote on the Facebook group Thornaby Alert that the centre was taking the rules "far too seriously", while Linsey Catchpole added "you can't fine Santa".
But shopping centre manager Oliver Westley is not amused.
"Unfortunately, Santa parked his sleigh in the wrong bay," he said.
Responding to accusations on social media that the parking attendant had "no Christmas spirit", Westley added: "He has plenty. Santa wasn't at the car when the ticket was issued."
Father Christmas said he would appeal against the ticket, but confirmed the incident would not affect deliveries on 24 December, saying: "No it hasn't ruined Christmas. Ho ho ho.
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