Woman Jailed for Not Paying $30,000 in Parking Tickets

Posted by digitalfever on Thursday February 05, 2009 @08:24AM
from the money.co.uk dept.

http://www.money.co.uk/article/1002734-woman-in-jail-over-30000-of-unpaid-parking-fines.htm

While a jail sentence may sound extreme for unpaid parking tickets according to reports the woman, who has not been named, managed to clock up the hefty fines for parking misdemeanors over the course of a 2 year period.

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Re:Woman Jailed for Not Paying $30,000 in Parking Tickets by Tangurena on Thursday February 05, 2009 @09:51AM (#467868)

While I dislike the invention, the "boot" does put an end to this sort of behavior long before one racks up 700 parking tickets. Here in Denver, cars get booted usually on the 3rd offence.

Meter maids in Denver get dinged if they issue less than 79 tickets in an 8 hour shift (for some shifts): http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/30/city-no-bu...

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Re:Woman Jailed for Not Paying $30,000 in Parking Tickets by Zolt on Thursday February 05, 2009 @09:28AM (#467833)

My favorite part of the story was "However, despite over 700 attempts by local authorities to contact her and obtain payment during that time, she failed to meet any of the charges." Here in the United States they put on tire locks and eventually tow the car, is that not the case in Austria? They said the civil servant racked these up over the course of two years.

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Re:Woman Jailed for Not Paying $30,000 in Parking Tickets by m_eiman on Thursday February 05, 2009 @10:24AM (#467962)

While I fail to see the HN angle in the story, I find it funny and pretty disturbing that judges (ab)use a loophole in the legal system to sentence someone to jail for 500 days for an offense with a stated maximum of 42 days.

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