A lady friend of mine is an attorney here in Nashville. She told me an alarming story about how, since the economic downturn this is happening very frequently.
She believes the counties and the state have either hired folks or assigned current employees to “dug up old, unpaid fines” and have them reinstated.
She has over 50 current clients who have hired her to defend them for similar claims.
They probably don’t hire them, as much as they just turn over the records to a bill collector who tries to pin the fine on people who won’t fight and gets a cut of the take. When America gave up manufacturing as our bread and butter, this is what we became—a nation of jackals who just prey on each other, fighting for the last scraps.