Quote Originally Posted by Rainecloud View Post
I'd pay the money. No jail time for me, thanks.

Parking laws can get a little extreme at times in the UK, too. Leaving your car outside your own house really shouldn't bother anybody else, but nosey neighbours always seem to like to ring the authorities to have them towed away. Ridiculous, isn't it?
Not just the parking laws but the speeding laws too. My older brother got sentenced to 6 weeks or so in prison for non payment of a speeding fine where he had been doing 100+ on a deserted road in the dead of night and caught on camera. He moved from the area to Birmingham and the local authorities never told him where to pay the money and so he couldn't pay even though he was trying to. The police were disgusted with the judge even when he pronounced the sentence, since the case before had been a 18 year old who beat a 89 year old lady up for her pension and left her for dead and the guy walked away with 20 hours community service! Infact my brother even sued ITV1's Police Cameral Action who claimed he had been drink driving and endangering the lives of other road users, my brother had not been drinking and held a racing car license at the time so knew exactly how to handle the car safely.

The UK has gone crazy with the legal system.