[ApplegateRanch]

sure, 450 dollars, take the day off to get a court date, then take another day off 2 months later to show up for my court date.

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And then, when you show up, be told there’s been a postponement, and you’ll have to take another day off and come back next month, at which time you’ll be told...

[HiTech RedNeck]

And to further the tales of woe, attorneys love such a system as it earns them more bucks just coming back and back...

But anyhow, if ordinary Joes do not put in an effort to stand up and be politically counted with respect to such affairs, by cracky they won’t be. You can build up cynicism till you’re blue in the face and it gets you nothing but headaches as these bad actors get to live in your mind without paying any rent for the privilege.