Woman jailed over $30,000 parking fine

VIENNA (Reuters) – An Austrian woman has begun a 500-day jail sentence for ignoring parking tickets and failing to pay a cumulative fine of around 24,000 euros ($30,860), police said Tuesday.

They said the 38-year-old civil servant from the southern city of Graz was jailed after ignoring 700 attempts by local authorities to notify her of the fines over a 2-year period.

"Of course we have had people ignore three, four, five or even 10 reminders, but 700 ... that is unheard of," said police official Herbert Mattersdorfer.

A police spokesman said that under Austrian law, the woman could only spend 42 days at a time in jail for this offence, so her term would be split into several stints behind bars.

I Have a buddy that is moved out of the state now but has several parking tickets that im sure goes over a 1000.00 bucks lolol not sure what will happen there.

I've never had a parking ticket.

Years ago I got a parking ticket for parking the wrong way on the side of the road. It was also my parking spot for the apartment that I lived in. I ended up moving to Kentucky several months later. They sent me a letter that stated if I didn't pay the $1.00 parking ticket, that they were going to press charges against me. I thought it was pretty screwed up thing to do over $1.00... So, I got a money order and sent them the $1.00 LOLOL

I had one on my motorcycle up north once, I was parked in a space and another bike parked in the space with me so they gace me a ticket but not him so as I rode away I held it up in the air and let go, never heard a word from them about it, I was there first so didn't see why I got a ticket and the other bike didn't. I think she should have taken care of them, must have been a heck of a bunch.