Posted on 02/20/2014 3:14:26 PM PST by Libloather
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Reporting the figure, WDIV-TV says some of the overdue fines are more than 10 years old and can't be collected. Some individuals owe the city more than $10,000.
The city is trying to get payments for some of what's owed. James Canty of Detroit's parking division says the city is putting holds on driver's licenses when they come up for renewal, taking motorists who owe money to court and reporting them to credit agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.msn.com ...
Please.....they weren’t trying very hard to collect.
Agreed!!
Atlanta has their own ge-parking-stapo that are fairly notorious. When I had to go to City Hall for work my company paid my parking fine because it’s just a part of business in Atlanta.
“A billion zillion dollars”! ;’) The only bad part about this is, all the misparked cars had been stolen then abandoned.
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