Well they can & do chase people down. When they take your license number down and the cops are at your door, lets see how smart you think you are in the slammer wondering where you are gonna come up with the money to “defend’ yourself.
Let the cops come, that’s the way it’s supposed to work and that’s when I’ll show them my receipt. But you go ahead and knuckle under on this one, and then a few more on down the road until what used to be this country is just a memory.