Michigan Man Pays Orlando Parking Ticket 36 Years Late

ORLANDO (CBS4) - Better late than never.

After 36 years a Michigan man has paid a $1 parking ticket issued in Orlando.

Orlando police said when they received Stanley Baker's payment for a Nov. 7, 1975, parking ticket on Tuesday they chuckled when they read the note the 89-year-old had attached to it.

Baker's son said his father found the ticket in a book bought at an Orlando garage sale in 1995. The elder Baker decided to pay the fine as a lark, even though it wasn't issued to him.

Baker sent the $1 payment in the ticket's original envelope. That got it delivered to a police department auditorium that was a night and traffic court in 1975. Orlando's parking violations from 1975 have been destroyed.

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