A driver was left with a face-full of confetti in his second hand car thanks to a prank from a former owner.

Chris Linnane, from Manchester, bought the Ford Focus ST three months ago from a second hand car dealership and had not noticed any issues.

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But during the sunny weather, Chris turned the air conditioning on only to be greeted by a hidden gift.

The 29-year-old was left covered in a shower of paper from the stealthily planted 'confetti bomb'.

He soon discovered the previous owner had craftily emptied the small circular paper cuttings from a hole punch into the air vent.

Unable to get to the paper to retrieve it, now Chris has to accept a blast in the face every time he switches the air con or heating on.

He said: "I only realised the other day that the vent had been filled with confetti when I turned up the air conditioning to full.

"It suddenly sped out all over my car. Obviously the air pressure from having it on low previously hadn't been enough.

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"Now every time I want to cool down or warm up my face, I face the inevitability of feeling like I'm part of a confetti celebration."

What makes it worse is that Chris even spoke to the previous owner before being the car but he kept quiet about the prank.

Chris added: "It took me a long time to clear them up and they've not all come out yet.

"I'd been finding one or two around since I bought the car and couldn't work out where they came from.

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"I can't exactly get the hoover in there to get them out."

Chris has now penned an open letter to the previous owner "thanking" him for his efforts.

In the Facebook post he said: "Dear the previous owner of my car.

"What we're all looking at here is the driver's side vent for the A/C and heating. What you're seeing inside that vent is a large handful of the little circles of paper that belong inside the catch tray of a hole punch.

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"The reason they're in there has now become painfully apparent. When I put the A/C on full blast, I now get a face full of the little b*****d pieces of paper!

"Bravo old owner, bravo."

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