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1858, RE: Poll/Questions/Survey regarding traffic tickets/cit...
Posted by Eskelian on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
>For my job, I'm interested in a few things regarding these
>questions. If you wouldn't mind putting your opinions,
>reactions, hypothetical decisions, mood, etc. Be as
>descriptive or vague as you want, but be readable so I can add
>these to our customer opinion debate, it might get some things
>changed. Say what you'd want to happen, who's fault you think
>it is, should there be a price reduction over the fault, blah
>blah blah etc.
>
>1)An officer pulls you over and gives you a ticket/citation,
>highliting all the information required for you to pay it on
>the back/front and writing the cost on it for you.
>When you head to the closest Clerk office to pay the
>citation/ticket, the Clerk informs you the price specified by
>the officer is incorrect.
>(I.E. Officer specified $75.00, you are told to pay $103.50)
>Do you pay it? Argue? Take it to court? What? How would you
>feel as a customer? Would you be angry?(Just some ideas for
>answers)

I would pay - because arguing with the government is masochism. I'm not going to risk getting ####ed in the ass over $30. Was probably an honest mistake on the police officer's part anyway.

>2) You get a citation/ticket in 2000-2005(Any extended period
>time before now).
>
>A. You forget the ticket entirely. Out of nowhere, in 2008,
>you receive a letter stating you have a month to pay the
>ticket and late fees or your license will be suspended.
>B. You pay the ticket and elect an option(driving school,
>partial payment plan, TAP), but never complete the option and
>out of nowhere, in 2008, you receive a letter stating you have
>a month to pay the ticket and late fees or your license will
>be suspended.
>(Is it the Clerk's fault for not dealing with it until now? Is
>the state to blame for the sudden need to pay it?)(If the
>ticket is entirely paid, but you only forgot to bring in a
>Certificate of Completion from Driving School or something of
>the like, should your license still be suspended for it, even
>though no cash is involved?)

This is how the government works. They find out everything - it just might not happen for several years or so. This is a combination of beuracracy, incompetance and incompetance that leads to it taking so long. I would pay it (because I should've known better) and the only thing that irritates me is the ridiculous penalties for non-compliance (suspending license for several months or suspending registration for several months or whatever).

>Thanks ahead for answering, if you do.
>Really, you could state any opinion about Citations/Tickets
>and I'd be able to use it, but these specific scenarios are
>the ones being looked at more.