Father Christmas hits the barrier

Every year Father Christmas arrives into the island by aeroplane, picks up his sleigh and travels around Jersey giving children early Christmas presents.

This is the first of two trips Saint Nick makes to Jersey's shore, the second, is the main one on Christmas Eve.

But this year the jolly old chap had a bit of a bump on the way out of the airport car park and it was captured on video by an islander with a camera and posted to YouTube.

In the video above, posted by gromit9084, you can see Santa and his sleigh hit the short stay car park barrier.

In the post Gromit said: "It would only happen in Jersey!"

"Times may be hard and the charges at Jersey Airport's short stay car park may be the most expensive but did they really have to bring down the barrier on Father Christmas as he didn't have a valid ticket?"

You can watch the video 'Father Christmas hits barrier at Jersey Airport' on YouTube.