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I'd only be worried if they were willing to send it to collections, that can hit your credit. Even a small thing can fuck up your credit

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They don’t have your SSN. How are they going to report it?

Even if they learn the registered owner, doesn’t prove who got the “ticket” and unlike a real ticket they can’t hold it over you with the DMV.

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This is why I will never drive in the state of Missouri again. Well it was a speeding ticket, but whatever.

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I got pulled over in Missouri years ago.

2am, going like 95 on some highway or interstate or other. Hadn’t seen another car in hours, and had been driving since like 5pm.

Get pulled over, cop asks where I’m headed. “Houston.” “Missouri?” “Oh, I didn’t know there was one, neat, no the one in Texas.”

Give my license (Texas) and registration (Wisconsin), and explain I’ve just moved back to my home state, hence the interstate papers, and am headed down with a friend to get my belongings from storage. He goes and runs my info, and it’s clean all the way down, as this is the first time I’d ever been pulled over, or really interacted with cops.

He comes back to the car and as he’s approaching, I can hear an all-hands call on his radio. There’s a heavily intoxicated woman throwing up in a Waffle House parking lot. Cop gets to my door, says “it’s your lucky day, I have to respond to an important incident, so maybe have your passenger drive for a while..”

So just a verbal warning and a mildly entertaining super-rural story. 8/10 would drive again.

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Was just calling out something to think about at least

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Interesting. What country is that?

Here (USA) I think if a mall tried that it would be suicide. They are already struggling to get enough customers against online shopping and many malls and some major retail stores are going out of business.

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In jail, you wont need to pay taxes

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Taxes won't matter when you are doing slave labor.

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Is that only city-wide in the US? Here in Europe we have international agreements..

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I remember when they added speeding fines to Elite: Dangerous and I purposely racked up several billion credits worth of speeding tickets in Federation space, on top of the billions of fines I had for dumping biowaste all over the mail slots of their stations.

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And if you ever want to pay the fine, you have to stealth in or get blasted by defense turrets. They rather see you dead than get the fine paid

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The way I do stealth is just being fast. They have to scan you first, so if you're fast enough they can't even do that.

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The last time I tried smuggling I was in a Type 9 and had huge issues with getting in, changed to a smaller frame and it went easier

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I really don't blame you. All cops outside of Metro areas or established cities in Missouri are local blumpkins tasked with collecting tax revenue from outsiders. This is because all rural areas in the Midwest stagnated economically and socially 50+ years ago.

Metro and City cops are doing the same on a different scale. They tend to be high/drunk/running organized crime. So at least they're bootstrapping and living the American dream of working for themselves.

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I think you mean "bumpkin" unless you are making a very odd accusation about the sexual proclivities of rural police.

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You are correct, I meant bumpkin. I would blame autocorrect or swipe, but here we are.

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It was worth the sensible chuckle in my opinion.

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Private parking tickets aren't generally enforceable in a court, but they can choose to tow or boot your vehicle if you park somewhere ride under their control.

I work at a university, and while the parking services department can't give you a real ticket enforceable by the court, they can withhold student records, diplomas, etc or withhold registration.

But tickets handed out by University police are different, since they're actually police and not parking attendants.

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In the US just go over state lines and only get your tickets in rural nowhere towns and you're fine

Source: sister in law who, at one point, had outstanding tickets in I think it was 11 towns across 5 states with 3 warrants for her arrest due to not paying or showing up to court. The FBI would consider her way too small time a drunk driver even if the Podunk nowheresvilles she did it in ever reported her, so she only bothers to deal with them if she goes back for some reason

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Huh seems weird. Doesn't the US have extremely broad contract law that would make this a contract violation that can be legally enforced - including seizing your salary or bank account until the penalty is paid?

Over here you can park for free exactly once and successfully deny payment if you claim it was someone else who violated the contract. However, you can then be legally forced to sign a declaration that your vehicle will never park there again with significantly higher violation fees.