State Seizes House Over Unpaid Parking Ticket
Posted: August 3rd, 2008 | Author: Sam | Filed under: Blog Posts |Man gets a ticket for having an unlicensed vehicle parked in his own driveway, on a piece of property that he owns. Man, mentally ill, doesn’t pay the ticket, which escalates into a $2,600 fine. City responds by taking his house which is worth almost 100 times the fine: $245,000.
Inexplicably, nobody quoted in the article objects to the state’s behavior, instead calling it a “tragedy.” It isn’t a tragedy if your house is stolen from you. It’s a crime. That the government is committing the crime doesn’t change its nature. Everybody involved with this on the city’s end should be fired, fined, and potentially jailed for so badly abusing their authority.
Everybody quoted, incidentally, should also be on the receiving end of a “dope slap” which is what you deserve if you don’t object to the state’s outrageous behavior here.
You know…this is the second story I’ve heard about a local government doing this…take a house to pay for a bill that is 1% of the value of the house.
I guess they thought no one would notice, what with everyone else losing their homes and all.