Parking Ticket Put on Car As Man Sat Dead Inside

A man who had died was given a parking ticket as he sat slumped in his car outside a busy shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia. A traffic warden stuck an infringement notice on the 71-year-old's car at Croydon Market, east of Melbourne, on Wednesday.

"It is a very sad situation. But it's simply a case of the parking officer not noticing," said Paul Denham, the mayor of the local Maroondah council. The man had been reported missing nine days earlier and was known to be seriously ill. A postmortem will be carried out to determine the time and cause of death.