Car Ticketed With Dead Body at the Wheel
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AUSTRALIA_DEAD_DRIVER?SITE=MIPON&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-10-21-19-44-02 ^ | October 21,2005 | unknown (AP)

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A traffic warden slapped a parking ticket on a car which had its dead driver slumped at the wheel outside an Australian shopping mall, an official said Friday.

The body of the 71-year-old man, whose identity was not immediately released, was discovered Thursday in a parking lot in the southern city of Melbourne, The Age newspaper reported Friday.

The man had been reported missing nine days earlier and was known to be seriously ill, the newspaper said.