Unpaid fines

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  6 July 2010     21:5359363
  #1      
  sorry to regurgitate an old subject but the office of national statistics(non political) confirmed today that 1.3 billion pounds of fines are not paid.
  
  will this continue to go on under the new administration?
  
  probably so, much easier to go along with the pretext of justice than administrating it.
• Sid Perkins

  • Location: Dover
  6 July 2010     22:5959370
  #2      
  Something to aim at Charlie perhaps? At some point he will need a new challenge.
• Guest 686

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  7 July 2010     00:1359375
  #3      
  They want to make a start in London! Umpteen million quid in unpaid parking and congestion charge zone fines by foreign government officials apparently. I can't recall the exact figure from today's BBC news but it was quite a lot and would go some way to subsidising the 2012 Olympics currently being funded by London tax payers.
  
  While HMG may have the will to chase all these fines it does beg the question of them having a way of doing so. I suppose they could make use of some of the many debt collection agencies that exist but tracking down the miscreants in the first place is going to be a big job for someone - who is probably about to get the sack anyway.
  Phil West
  If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  7 July 2010     07:0559387
  #4      
  Those "old" fines (not sure how old they have to be though) are passed on to debt-collecting agencies and they collect the fines, with a percentage of what's collected, being passed back to the issuing local authority.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  7 July 2010     07:4259389
  #5      
  If this latest news isnt the green light for the rest of us NOT to pay fines then I dont know what is!?
  
  I was relatively recently fined £80 for not declaring SORN on my off the road motorcycle. It was off the road, not interfering with anyone, yet up turns this blasted fine. I tried to contact somebody, anybody, about the situation but there just isnt anyone there anymore. Staff already down to threadbare level so how anyone can cut the damn staff levels even further I dont know. You just have to pay up and shutup even though I had a case for a hearing.
  
  If I knew no one else was paying then I woulda kept the money and spent it on wimmin and drink!
  
  email: dover7@msn.com
• howard mcsweeney1

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  7 July 2010     09:1759391
  #6      
  a lot of the foreign government fines are covered by diplomatic immunity, basically they can drive at whatever speed they like and park wherever they fancy.
• Sid Perkins

  • Location: Dover
  7 July 2010     11:2459395
  #7      
  Reciprocal arrangements to be fair Howard.
  
  I got a parking fine in Canterbury a few years back and thought, "I wonder if I can get away with this?" It was all going well until one Saturday morning a local PC knocked on my door. He was there to arrest me for non-payment of a parking fine. He came into the house, arrested me, and then bailed me for the sum of the fine which had to be paid in 72 hours at the local nick, or he'd be back with the manacles!!!!
  
  So, to this day I don't know how it is possible to get away with it. So, no wimmin and booze for me either!
• howard mcsweeney1

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  7 July 2010     18:2759434
  #8      
  looks like the forum has been hijacked by criminals, even sid and paulb now admit to having previous.