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Personalised plate far too troublesome

The owner of a car with the personalised number plate ‘XXXXXXX’ has received parking fines for every unidentified car in a nearby city.

Traffic wardens in Birmingham, Alabama, enter seven letter Xs on their forms when they issue tickets to cars without plates, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The default code matches the personalised plate of a motorist from nearby Huntsville, who has received nearly £12,000 worth of parking tickets intended for other vehicles.

Scottie Roberson, 38, says that he has contacted city officials to alert them to the problem, but the notices continue to land on his doorstep.

“Whenever I call, nobody seems to want to help me,” he told The Birmingham News. “One woman said not to worry about it because they didn’t have the manpower to come arrest me.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .