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You’ve heard of the double down, but what about the duodecuple down?
My University issued me a BS parking ticket a couple of weeks before graduation. I appealed, appeal was denied with no explanation. Fine was $20, no interest, no penalties. I ignored it. They refused to release my transcripts - oh well, that was 35 years ago now, haven't needed the transcripts yet. They did send letters to me for 10 years asking me to pay the $20 fine, I believe the postage alone amounted to over $20 by the time they gave up.
At my college, if there were any unpaid fines/fees, they held your diploma rather than just the transcripts.
Although as often as I’ve had to show my diploma, I’d guess withholding that would probably be about as effective as the transcripts, lol.
At this point, you should respond and ask for sworn testimony from the person who wrote the ticket.
Every job asks if I have a diploma, nobody has ever asked for proof.
the decouple from reality
In July 2016, Prescott was caught driving 64km/h in a 50km/h zone and was sent a ticket for it. However, he tried to claim he wasn’t driving the car, nor did he own it.
Sovcit for sure. They have those in Oz?
Yes, although this is NZ. But yeah, having it get out of control like that does definitely sound like sovereign citizenship shit.
I got confused for a moment, the Z in NZ made me think of the Z in Oz. I know better.
Sovcits are pretty much everywhere.
What does "bankrupt" mean here? The only kind of bankruptcy I'm aware of is where the individual declares it, and it basically means the creditors are compelled to accept the court's resolution of the debt.
I've never heard of the idea of the government making such a declaration. What are the consequences of such a declaration?
... is Aukland sort of like, eh, Florida, except for NZ?
Not really, but it is our biggest city by a very wide margin, so you'll see it mentioned a lot in stories about NZ.
so you don't have Auckland Man tossing ~~aligators~~ crocodiles into fast food joints?
disappointing!
I don't think NZ has crocs, best you could do is probably a sheep.
I'm sure you could find a Cassowary around to get some equivalent amount of chaos to a croc.
I don't want to meet anyone that can successfully carry and then throw a cassowary. I'm 192 cm, and 61 kg, and I am certain that I couldn't manage to restrain a cassowary to carry the thing, much less throw one. The weight isn't the difficulty factor here, it's the damn deinonychus looking feet, and beak that I'm worried about.
It's all about the harness...
You could say the same thing about a croc too. Get an idiot drunk enough and they do even more idiotic things.
Gators are easy to deal with. Get them to bite a stick, they will. Once their jaws are closed, a 7 year old child could keep their jaws closed with some difficulty. A full grown adult can easily hang on to their jaws. Then you get a buddy or two to throw the thing back in the water.
They're fast in the water, and can do really short sprints on land. More like repeated lunges, really. On land we are much faster and have a lot more endurance. Not saying you shouldn't be careful, but unless you're a kid or elderly, gators aren't really a concern.
We don't have crocodiles in North America, outside of zoos, thankfully. Those monsters are a pain to deal with, I assume, since I have never seen a video of drunk Egyptians or drunk Australians wrangling them. I have seen drunk Floridians wrangle gators in person, so I'm certain videos exist.
Be careful with the gators. You'll be focused on the jaws, but the feet have claws too...
Death by alligator is quite rare, but the month before we moved to Florida one took a snorkeler just a few miles from where we were moving to...
Yeah, in the water it's a whole different story. They can outswim Micheal Phelps, and Mark Spitz as though those two were sitting still.
I was unaware that there were cassowaries in NZ. We tried to find them in the various aviaries and zoos, to no avail, because they aren't endemic and NZ has VERY strict rules about importation of birds.
There likely isn't. I was just making a dumb joke about what a Flordia man inspired Kiwi would do.
Well, at least I know we didn't spend all that time searching only to miss them. I was afraid I was going to find out that you live near a bunch of them somewhere on the North Island.
No, that would be Bob Katter.
Ah legal systems designed to make people not seek to engage with it to solve issues. Let’s paywall off the courts some more so that only big business can afford to use it.
When he didn’t pay the fine and the matter went to court, Prescott didn’t show up and he was fined a further $80 and $30 in court costs.
Two years later, Prescott unsuccessfully appealed the fine in the District Court and rather than seek leave to appeal he sought a judicial review of that decision.
That request for review was struck out and Prescott was ordered to pay nearly $7000 in court costs.
He is summoned and failed to turn up. Then he appealed and failed. Then he keep doing the exact same thing over and over again while trying to strike off the fee. You can't just waste everyone time and expect you won't get billed each time you lose. It's paywalling stupidity/insanity.
In July 2016, Prescott was caught driving 64km/h in a 50km/h zone and was sent a ticket for it. However, he tried to claim he wasn’t driving the car, nor did he own it.
Nah, the guy was just wrong.