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Auckland man fails to overturn bankruptcy after $34k fines defending $80 speeding ticket (www.nzherald.co.nz)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

We lived in a city that levied $500 per day fines for some fairly common stuff (like 30% of the homes in the city had the violations, but only a few were charged with them because, reasons...) so, some homeowners who ignored the fines accumulated city liens in excess of the value of their homes. When that went to court, the judges just threw out all the fines as unconscionable, particularly when you could point to hundreds of homes with similar conditions for years and years which were not being fined.