A Florida woman was fined over $100,000 after city officials ruled that one car in her driveway slightly encroached on grass, violating a local ordinance.
For those wondering how a parking fine can be 100K, it’s actually many smaller fines:
“However, one of the cars has to be parked slightly over the grass in Martinez’s yard, in violation of a local property-maintenance ordinance, which has led to a $250 fine every day since 2021”
Per/day fines like this are sort of bullshit. Imagine if speeding tickets were a certain amount per 100ft traveled above speed or some such. Oh, you drove 10mph over for 1500 feet…
I’d almost guarantee you could settle it for 1/10th of it (which is still a lot, granted) if not less. There needs to be some sort of proportionality in fines.
For those wondering how a parking fine can be 100K, it’s actually many smaller fines:
“However, one of the cars has to be parked slightly over the grass in Martinez’s yard, in violation of a local property-maintenance ordinance, which has led to a $250 fine every day since 2021”
Per/day fines like this are sort of bullshit. Imagine if speeding tickets were a certain amount per 100ft traveled above speed or some such. Oh, you drove 10mph over for 1500 feet…
I’d almost guarantee you could settle it for 1/10th of it (which is still a lot, granted) if not less. There needs to be some sort of proportionality in fines.
This isn’t really like that at all. It’s like of you went 10mph over every day for a year and they fined you for every day.
Except the fine itself and not having a cap and not being proportional are really really stupid+excessive.
i’d love it if per day fines had a max without our perdiems at work being affected
Takes a special kind of stupid to ignore enough letters to get to 100k in fines
Yeah, let’s blame anything except dumbass HOA fees. HOAs are a plague run by power tripping ghouls.
Or protesting them. Doesn’t need to be stupid. Bad choice? Sure.