[RebelBanker]

Ever received a $100 ticket in the mail from somewhere you had never been?
I have.

Fortunately for me, I had proof available that I was somewhere else at the time the photo of a license plate that looked similar to mine was taken on a vehicle running a light.

[groanup]

I have too. I gave a car to a needy lady in the area and she never registered it in her name. I was dumb enough not to check and make sure. I got a red light violation in the mail. Damn glad she didn't do something worse.

[sig226]

I got two of them. One was a parking ticket in Jersey City, which had my license plate on it, but described a different car. The city said that if I mailed them a copy of my registration, they would drop it. To their credit, they did.

Many, many moons ago, I lived in Texas. When I went back to New Jersey, I started getting all kinds of threatening letters for failure to appear, driving without a license, didn't pay a speeding fine, etc. I ignored them since I was a thousand miles away at the time and they were obviously wrong.

Years later I learned that my dear brother had swiped my mother's car, got caught speeding, and told the cop that he was me. He was not old enough to have a license. He then threw the tickets in the trash. I guess they realized that they had no basis to proceed, other than a cop who wrote tickets to a person claiming to be me. The notices stopped after a while.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Read the article linked to in Post 93.

It was unconstitutional for you to have to prove your innocence.

[Jim Verdolini]

"Ever received a $100 ticket in the mail from somewhere you had never been?
I have. "

I can beat that, I got a property tax bill from the Sheriff if Charleston County SC for 2 cars I did not own at a time when I was living outside of the country.

They demanded money right then or else. I very impolitely told them what they could do with their demand.