A Florida woman was fined over $100,000 after city officials ruled that one car in her driveway slightly encroached on grass, violating a local ordinance.
For those wondering how a parking fine can be 100K, it’s actually many smaller fines:
“However, one of the cars has to be parked slightly over the grass in Martinez’s yard, in violation of a local property-maintenance ordinance, which has led to a $250 fine every day since 2021”
Per/day fines like this are sort of bullshit. Imagine if speeding tickets were a certain amount per 100ft traveled above speed or some such. Oh, you drove 10mph over for 1500 feet…
I’d almost guarantee you could settle it for 1/10th of it (which is still a lot, granted) if not less. There needs to be some sort of proportionality in fines.
For those wondering how a parking fine can be 100K, it’s actually many smaller fines:
“However, one of the cars has to be parked slightly over the grass in Martinez’s yard, in violation of a local property-maintenance ordinance, which has led to a $250 fine every day since 2021”
Per/day fines like this are sort of bullshit. Imagine if speeding tickets were a certain amount per 100ft traveled above speed or some such. Oh, you drove 10mph over for 1500 feet…
I’d almost guarantee you could settle it for 1/10th of it (which is still a lot, granted) if not less. There needs to be some sort of proportionality in fines.
This isn’t really like that at all. It’s like of you went 10mph over every day for a year and they fined you for every day.
Except the fine itself and not having a cap and not being proportional are really really stupid+excessive.
i’d love it if per day fines had a max without our perdiems at work being affected
Takes a special kind of stupid to ignore enough letters to get to 100k in fines
Or protesting them. Doesn’t need to be stupid. Bad choice? Sure.
Yeah, let’s blame anything except dumbass HOA fees. HOAs are a plague run by power tripping ghouls.