LONDON (AP) ? For some harassed Christmas motorists, Santa is just the ticket.

Motorists receiving parking tickets in the central English city of Birmingham recently have found Christmas cards on their windscreens containing 30 pounds (US$50; 45 euros) in cash to pay the fine, the Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

Each card contains a note reading, ?Don?t let this ticket spoil your Christmas. Here?s ?30 to pay it off. Merry Christmas ? Parking Ticket Santa.?

So far, 14 motorists have benefited from this anonymous benefactor?s largesse, the Daily Telegraph said.

Caroline Howard, 27, from nearby Walsall, told the newspaper her card carried the words ?Christmas cracker?.

?At first I thought it was a joke and kept looking around for the person who had left it there,? the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying. ?But perhaps Santa really does exist after all.?

Local council officials and police said they are clueless about Santa?s identity and a spokesman for Control Plus, the company in charge of imposing parking tickets in Birmingham, said its traffic wardens would not put money in envelopes at Christmas.

?If I knew it was happening I would put my car on double yellow lines more often,? said the spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with company policy.