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Boing Boing: A Kafka day at the Los Angeles traffic ticket office
by k at 12:44 pm EST, Jan 6, 2005

] The woman told my wife what the fine is (about $135), but
] told her that she could not accept payment for the fine,
] because the ticket is not in the database. My wife is not
] allowed to attend driving school, either, because the
] ticket isn't in the database.
]
]
] The woman instructed my wife to call the court every day
] week, to find out if the ticket had been entered into the
] computer yet. Once it shows up, she is supposed to drive
] to the ticket office the very next day to take care of
] it. And once the ticket has been entered, she is going to
] be hit with a penalty and possibly a warrrant for her
] arrest, because once the information goes into the
] computer it'll see that she hasn't paid the fine yet, and
] it will be flagged as delinquent. My wife will then have
] to explain the situation to another helpful city
] employee.

[ Sadly, this kind of complete bullshit hardly even surprises me anymore. -k]

RE: Boing Boing: A Kafka day at the Los Angeles traffic ticket office
by Decius at 9:39 am EST, Jan 7, 2005

k wrote:
] ] The woman told my wife what the fine is (about $135), but
] ] told her that she could not accept payment for the fine,
] ] because the ticket is not in the database. My wife is not
] ] allowed to attend driving school, either, because the
] ] ticket isn't in the database.

Sometimes the cops in California don't bother to turn tickets in. This is there way of telling you its really not that big of a deal. Eventually you'll stop bothering to call.