5 Ways Speeding and Red Lights Cameras Are Causing Political Outrage

[TheBlackAdder]

32. Some NJ Towns were notorious for this.

Up until recent years, there were only 3 things that didn't have a statute of limitations: Murder, Rape & parking Tickets

Towns would send parking violations to people all across the state claiming that they parked in their town 5-15 years earlier and it was either paying the fine, showing up in court or having your driver's license suspended. Most everyone paid the fines, anywhere from $40-$80 each.

It was cheaper for people to do that than to take the day off of work, drive 50 miles away, show up and either lose the case or have it rescheduled for another day (just to bust chops).

Towns were doing this when people didn't even own the car claimed on the citation, own the car, lived in other areas of the country, etc.

Now, NJ reduced it to either 3 or 4 years!