Got a traffic ticket, which is a great reminder of how ridiculous government is. After blocking the entire road unnecessarily with his car for 25 minutes, the officer gave me my ticket. No points on the license, just $277.69 and a court date, at which he told me Id likely get the amount reduced if I showed up. Seeing no reason to make this even more costly by subjecting myself to a day in court, I tried to pay the ticket today. The bizarre and confusing instructions said I could mail it to the court listed, but only in certified check or money order, no personal checks. Thats OK, because the court address was hand-written by the officer and completely illegible anyway. Thankfully Google is smarter than government employees, and I was able to locate the court. I tried to pay online through the worst looking website Ive ever seen, with a UI/UX that Dante couldve included in his circles of hell, but it asked for a case number, and the only thing I could find on my ticket was not working. I went to another website and found a phone number. I called and the lady said the web payment system doesnt work, but good news! They can now take a credit card payment over the phone, with a $1 fee plus a 1.7% convenience charge (in government they charge you more when you make things more convenient for them). I was pleased to see that they were only two decades behind with their technology, rather than the usual three or four. I gave her my info and she said, after what sounded like a million keystrokes, Hold on a minute...hmmm...it seems we dont have any record of this ticket. When did you get it? I told her I got it yesterday. She said officers turn them in at the end of their shifts, and then it takes a few days for the court to process them and get them in the system, so try calling back Friday or Monday. Does this mean that, despite it taking nearly half an hour to issue the damn thing, the officer was not entering it into a computer system on the spot? Does he hand in his hand-written tickets every few days and then somebody types them all in? Ive seen an Uber driver do more with a cell phone than an entire county government.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:20:06 +0000
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