later i got another letter from the fuzz another ticket this time for speeding same driver same car same place with my name still attached again i had to copy all the paperwork write a long letter to the clerk and mail it all off to the courthouse the third ticket really made me mad i started making calls and discovered that this scam is pretty common some folks buy a junker and rack up fines until they wreck or abandon the car and their name was never on it so nobody bothers to punish them for it it's all on the previous owner to clean up the mess and prove who was at fault this time i wrote an extra long letter to the court clerk and did a little research to include the guy's picture home address and listed phone number a few months went by and i thought it was over heck the car should have given out by now anyway then the fourth ticket arrived showing him in high res zipping past a radar cam in my old car with my old bumper sticker still on the back giant meteor NUMBER_TOKEN and all his kids piled into the back seat the fifth and sixth tickets felt like groundhog's day i didn't even bother to put the paperwork away i kept it out on my desk ready to copy by the time the seventh ticket arrived we were well over a year beyond the sale and enough was enough this wasn't just some dude forgetting to do some paperwork or not knowing the right way to go about buying a car this was intentional it was time for some pro revenge first i called the police and after a week of back and forth finally spoke with a traffic cop who said enough is enough and went to pay the guy a visit he said he couldn't disclose what would happen during that discussion but the total amount of the likely unpaid traffic tickets was enough to get his attention the tickets and late fees were several times the value of the car that wasn't enough just having to pay his tickets wasn't appropriate for the seven freaking times i had to copy that darn bill of sale for the court clerk so i started going back through my records of every ticket and every photo and i found an interesting theme in every photo his tiny kids were in the car including the newborn infant all packed into the back seat hmm i called child protective services anonymously i didn't provide any information that was not NUMBER_TOKEN factual and verifiable the tickets showed that this guy was operating an identity fraud scheme out of his home essentially stealing my identity and who knows how many others his children were present throughout furthermore he regularly violated traffic rules and put his children in serious danger by speeding running red lights and committing other traffic violations if he was doing this stuff so often in front of a big white camera how do you think he was driving when he wasn't being watched i declined to provide my name or number as i had nothing more to offer and didn't want to be involved in the case any further i gave them all the evidence i had of three small children in repeated dangerous and illegal situations all of which were verifiable by photo evidence and court documents after that i stopped getting traffic tickets for him maybe the car finally gave out i did a little bit of research after reading this story because up where i am in canada you have to remove your plates from your car when you sell it to somebody else or trade it in or anything like that and those plates have to be returned to our dmv apparently that's not the same
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