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Here's another thought: decades ago I got a parking ticket in San Francisco as they have quite steep hills, and thus the local regs state that you have to "block park" on the hills, i.e. turn the steering wheel to point the front wheels towards the kerb so that, if the parking brake fails, then the car will hit the kerb and not run away down the slope. Regs also said you always had to park with the car pointing down the hill, and I hadn't done that either!
Of course, being an English tourist driving a rental car, I didn't know all of that, and so I sent the parking authority/police a letter explaining who I was and that I was unaware of the regs. I also sent them a £ sterling cheque on a UK bank (I had no US bank a/c of course!), but it never got cashed and I never heard anything more about the "offence"
However, I've always been a bit worried that the next time I fly to the States (which I haven't done since then) I would be "caught" by the immigration guys for a being a "criminal" with an unpaid fine
PS: I've seen a Citroen BX run away as mentioned above - luckily it didn't go far and got caught by a wire fence, otherwise it would have finished up in the middle of a busy road! |
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