Re: net hoax - traffic citation dismissal

[Khan Klatt <kmk@pacificrim.net>]

At 9:33 PM -0400 9/30/98, Lin, Gary wrote:
>You might have seen a story that says if you're paying a citation to send
>the court a couple dollars extra, where they'd mail you a refund check, you
>tear it up and never cash it, and then the transaction never finishes and
>you wouldn't get points.
>
>Well, it's hooey.  They will zap the points on the minute you pay,
>regardless of any extra money.  They'll just eventually recredit your
>uncashed check back into the general fund.  You're out the points and the
>money. ;-P  Fight it or pay.

Cool way for the DMV to make some moo-lah, I suppose. Wish I would have
thought of it.

-Khan
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Khan Klatt <kklatt@nw.verio.net>                             Verio Northwest
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