• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Do people in the US just get away with not paying tickets?

    Over here, if you don’t pay fines, it will get escalated until the point of seizure, and if you have nothing else to seize, they will take your car.

    Not paying isn’t really an option.

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      1 day ago

      Apparently, the issue with mail-in tickets specifically is that while the camera can catch the license plate number, it can’t really prove who was driving the car. So whereas an in-person ticket from a cop for passing a school bus will result in points on your license, a mail-in ticket from a camera like this won’t. The same problem applies to people that just don’t pay the mail-in tickets - the state doesn’t really know who to go after specifically.

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        8 hours ago

        mail-in ticket from a camera like this won’t

        Damn, imagine now if one could put such a camera anywhere and it would

        • either be moved away if below a threshold after a period, e.g. 1 week
        • or stay as long as it pays for itself then when it pays for a 2nd one, that new one would be randomly nearby
      • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        That’s some weird legal loopholes.

        Over here, if you own a car you are responsible for who drives it. So if you get a mail-in ticket, you can either name the driver (and in case of a dispute prove that they were the driver) or you yourself are counted as the driver.

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          1 day ago

          Oh, so you’re saying your country does something better than my country? Take your xenophobia and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.

          :D

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            1 day ago

            Yeah, saying software quality sucks because foreigners are programming it is totally the same as saying that a specific law in one country is worse than the equivalent in another law. Sure.