I wonder how the Chicago police got your address. I wondered how the L.A. police got my address. How do you go from a license plate to an home address in another state? Obviously the rental company ratted us out out.
Did the rental company actually think I was going to pay a ticket for their expired license tab?
They didn't. Hertz sent it to me. I just blew it off.
But years ago, I did get a parking ticket in the mail from the city of Philadelphia ( I live in Western PA), and neither me or any of my cars had been in Philly for years.
It turned out the corrupt bastards in that corrupt city just sent out parking tickets at random to anyone with a licensed vehicle in the State of Pennsylvania.
I never paid that ticket either, and eventually the state smacked them down for their scam after they hit a couple of politically connected folks.
“I wonder how the Chicago police got your address. I wondered how the L.A. police got my address.”
The very first organized surveillance of American citizens started with driver’s licenses.
Now there is a national database.