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		If you don't want a $44,500 fine, don't leave your car parked illegally for 1,800 years (consumerist.com)		77
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ManateeGag		2011-10-27 02:48:26 PM

Fred Flintstone is going to be pissed.

Polartank13		2011-10-27 03:15:00 PM

Yeah, well good luck collecting from him when the WHOLE FN WORLD IS DESTROYED!!!

i149.photobucket.com

ShawnDoc		2011-10-27 03:21:14 PM

Pretty sure $45,000 is equivalent to illegally parking for 7 days in Los Angeles.

xanadian		2011-10-27 03:54:36 PM

Imagine what the fine would be like if Jesus had illegally parked his dinosaur...

Speaker2Animals		2011-10-27 04:25:08 PM

Non-Consumerist link for sublazymitter.

ZAZ		2011-10-27 04:36:15 PM

Speaker2Animals

For some reason the Fark droids still haven't coded up the link rewriter to automatically replace Consumerist and Gawker reblogs with the real story.

Kurai Kage Ryu		2011-10-27 04:37:28 PM

[xkcdbobbytables]

otto the bull		2011-10-27 04:37:59 PM

syfylys channel		2011-10-27 04:41:52 PM

How about next time, subby, link to TFA rather than annoying consumerist bullshut.

Krieghund		2011-10-27 04:43:45 PM

ShawnDoc: Pretty sure $45,000 is equivalent to illegally parking for 7 days in Los Angeles.

Only if you drive a $45,000 car.

Smeggy Smurf		2011-10-27 04:45:13 PM

1,800 year old dead hooker in the trunk. Yum yum

GuyCaballero		2011-10-27 04:45:47 PM

Well it was in Italy. I've read that Emperor Augustus actually banned daytime chariot parking because of gridlock.

The_Six_Fingered_Man		2011-10-27 04:46:14 PM

Consumerist Links need to go the way of SbB links.

Valiente		2011-10-27 04:47:16 PM

I know some people call the Fiat 500 a motorized chariot, but...

www.auto123.com

/what a motorized chariot might resemble.
//pimp my ride, Judah ben Hur.

Fish in a Barrel		2011-10-27 04:47:24 PM

...was taken to the hospital for a dizzy spell after receiving a €32,000 ($44,500) parking ticket.

Who the fark are these people? If I got a $44,500 parking ticket, my reaction would be "LOL WUT?" not getting the vapors.

The_Six_Fingered_Man		2011-10-27 04:48:15 PM

Fish in a Barrel: ...was taken to the hospital for a dizzy spell after receiving a €32,000 ($44,500) parking ticket.

Who the fark are these people? If I got a $44,500 parking ticket, my reaction would be "LOL WUT?" not getting the vapors.

She was very verklempt

Fano		2011-10-27 04:50:11 PM

Polartank13: Yeah, well good luck collecting from him when the WHOLE FN WORLD IS DESTROYED!!!

[i149.photobucket.com image 630x298]

Beaten to the punch

Biteskrig		2011-10-27 04:52:34 PM

my math might be a little wrong but doesnt the ticket work out to be $24.72 a year?

thats sounds like a damned good deal for parking

irishjihad		2011-10-27 04:54:39 PM

They always miss some mundane detail . . .

CokeBear		2011-10-27 04:55:13 PM

Biteskrig: my math might be a little wrong but doesnt the ticket work out to be $24.72 a year?

thats sounds like a damned good deal for parking

The actual ticket was for 32767 euros. Can you think of a reason it wasn't higher?

Fish in a Barrel		2011-10-27 04:57:48 PM

CokeBear: Biteskrig: my math might be a little wrong but doesnt the ticket work out to be $24.72 a year?

thats sounds like a damned good deal for parking

The actual ticket was for 32767 euros. Can you think of a reason it wasn't higher?

Just a little more time on the clock and they would have owed her 32,768€.

Kryllith		2011-10-27 04:59:00 PM

Biteskrig: my math might be a little wrong but doesnt the ticket work out to be $24.72 a year?

thats sounds like a damned good deal for parking

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Is that a one-time parking ticket with added late fees or is that the total amount for 3 years of parking? If it's the latter, could we have that put into place here? It beats local university parking by about $200/year (I park on the street anyway, but at that cost I might consider something else).

altinos		2011-10-27 05:01:33 PM

Don't blink.

jagec		2011-10-27 05:01:46 PM

syfylys channel: How about next time, subby, link to TFA rather than annoying consumerist bullshut.

It was probably already submitted and rejected, so this was Subby's way of cleverly getting around the filter.

Yep.

Clever.

SirHolo		2011-10-27 05:01:54 PM

By nary I don't have an idea.

enry		2011-10-27 05:02:51 PM

xanadian: Imagine what the fine would be like if Jesus had illegally parked his dinosaur...

Dinosaurs need to be walked.

theMagni		2011-10-27 05:04:23 PM

CokeBear: Biteskrig: my math might be a little wrong but doesnt the ticket work out to be $24.72 a year?

thats sounds like a damned good deal for parking

The actual ticket was for 32767 euros. Can you think of a reason it wasn't higher?

Seriously? FFF...

That takes it from just silly to comedy gold. Thanks for the euro info.

/Why are we voting on this?

BunkoSquad		2011-10-27 05:04:32 PM

Wait till she gets her cell phone bill and sees all those ancient Roman charges.

cowgirl toffee		2011-10-27 05:04:48 PM

enry: xanadian: Imagine what the fine would be like if Jesus had illegally parked his dinosaur...

Dinosaurs need to be walked.

I can see some dinosaurs needing to be fitted with emergency breaks.

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion		2011-10-27 05:07:59 PM

Smeggy Smurf: 1,800 year old dead hooker in the trunk. Yum yum

Was she teriyaki-style?

MORB		2011-10-27 05:08:51 PM

theMagni: Seriously? 7FFF...

ftfy

Loadmaster		2011-10-27 05:13:11 PM

The fine was backdated to 2008, but the police officer missed one of those zeroes, calculating fines and interest back to 208 A.D.

Damn Italian application programmers.
Damn Italian QA testers.
Damn Italian data entry clerks.

Big Cheese Make Hair Go Boom		2011-10-27 05:13:35 PM

Whoever programmed that software needs to be shot. I mean...wtf?

Pfighting Polish		2011-10-27 05:23:54 PM

Hey, if I was driving a vintage Porsche 311, I'd want to park it someplace where everyone could see it, too.

/Do some math ...

BigNumber12		2011-10-27 05:24:16 PM

I'll usually stand up for cop-types, but Parking Enforcement 'Officers' seem to be careless scum. I've gotten 2 parking tickets in cities that I've never been to, on vehicles that don't even remotely resemble my car. That system seriously needs to reject, or at the very least flag, entries where licence plate # doesn't match registered make/model.

Pfighting Polish		2011-10-27 05:24:55 PM

Wait ... I just did some math.

I give myself the FAIL tag.

profplump		2011-10-27 05:25:05 PM

Big Cheese Make Hair Go Boom: Whoever programmed that software needs to be shot. I mean...wtf?

Exactly. If they had just done the smart thing and used a 2-digit decimal representation of years this could never have happened.

adrienne barbeaubot		2011-10-27 05:27:11 PM

you have 30 minutes to move your cube.

ZMugg		2011-10-27 05:27:15 PM

I like the helpful picture of what a parking ticket in San Francisco would look like.

Rockstone		2011-10-27 05:28:10 PM

Wait, we have an advice tag?

theMagni		2011-10-27 05:39:53 PM

MORB: theMagni: Seriously? 7FFF...

ftfy

I know it starts with a 7, it wrecked the timing.

Gyrfalcon		2011-10-27 05:40:11 PM

ShawnDoc: Pretty sure $45,000 is equivalent to illegally parking for 7 days in Los Angeles.

Only if you left it at LAX.

Jument		2011-10-27 05:40:28 PM

Loadmaster: The fine was backdated to 2008, but the police officer missed one of those zeroes, calculating fines and interest back to 208 A.D. Damn Italian application programmers.
Damn Italian QA testers.
Damn Italian data entry clerks.

This. Mostly the first two though. Users should be treated as dumb as rocks or evil geniuses. Expect them to abuse the hell out of the system, and guard against it.

IlGreven		2011-10-27 05:41:11 PM

So I guess it's "Let's bash the link rather than actually discuss it" day here on Fark.

OMGH4X		2011-10-27 05:52:18 PM

In other news, Italy's new austerity plan will be funded through increased fines for parking violations.

theMagni		2011-10-27 05:57:27 PM

Jument: Loadmaster: The fine was backdated to 2008, but the police officer missed one of those zeroes, calculating fines and interest back to 208 A.D. Damn Italian application programmers.
Damn Italian QA testers.
Damn Italian data entry clerks.

This. Mostly the first two though. Users should be treated as dumb as rocks or evil geniuses. Expect them to abuse the hell out of the system, and guard against it.

You do have to admire the programmers though, "Well hey, what if someone DOES want to issue a traffic ticket dating from 1200 years ago? We should put that in."

And then, somehow, no objections at the meeting. One can only assume everyone was either totally loaded or they were just messing with the tender.

BitwiseShift		2011-10-27 06:00:10 PM

Roman numerals for the win.

Especially good for that multiplying and dividing.

It's a shame they didn't jail her for ~~six~~ VI years, or VI * CCCLXV days.

madgordy		2011-10-27 06:07:47 PM

one hopes it was in a cool dry enviroment far from salt water, otherwise it'd be a pile of rust after that long!

Fish in a Barrel		2011-10-27 06:12:48 PM

Jument: Users should be treated as dumb as rocks or evil geniuses. Expect them to abuse the hell out of the system, and guard against it.

Yeah, this one.

me: reads steps to reproduce bug
me: "What the... who would... why?"

Lord Jubjub		2011-10-27 06:12:48 PM

adrienne barbeaubot: you have 30 minutes to move your cube.

No, no, no. Let's go for the full quote:

HOMER:"Morning Mr. Burns, here's your messages."
"You have 30 minutes to move your car."
"You have 10 minutes to move your car."
"Your car has been impounded."
"Your car has been crushed into a cube."
"You have 30 minutes to move your cube."

PHONE RINGS

HOMER: "Yello, Mr.Burns' office?"
BURNS: "Is it about my cube?"

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