A Reddit user was saved from a parking ticket (Picture: Imgur / Kidderboots)

Over-zealous traffic wardens keen to dish out parking tickets had better beware.

A mysterious good Samaritan in Santa Monica, California, is waging a guerrilla war on the parking enforcers after stepping in to save a stranger from getting a fine.

When Reddit user Kidderboots woke up a bit late one morning he found a note on his windscreen from the kind-hearted stranger instead of a ticket.

‘Hey – saw the parking police roll up about to give your car a ticket,’ it said.


‘I ran over, pulled out my keys and said “sorry! I’m right here!” She drove off. If you’re reading this, pass on the karma. If the cops are reading this… these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.’

The note from ‘citizen of the earth’ was later posted online where one user replied: ‘The parking cop is probably telling a good karma story too “… and I didn’t give them a ticket. I am awesome”.’