French Speeding Tickets
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- i_was0
pay or prepare yourself to french prison
- comicsans0
If you don't pay, they will take it from the hire company who will take it from your credit card. You will then have to deal with any residual stain on your reputation/credit rating from being a defaulter.
- boobs0
Plead ignorance.
- sleepyfatso0
This same thing happened to me driving in the UK. I have a Canadian drivers license and got a UK speeding ticket. I could NOT pay the ticket because they couldn't assign a UK drivers license to the ticket. They were asking me to get a UK drivers license to pay the ticket?! I then had to wait for them to do a court summons so I could explain that i didn't have a UK license. It was only then that they voided the ticket.
- spot130
Don't pay, that would be crazy. If a French official handed you some tickets while in France, then you pay. If you get some shit in the mail that looks official then don't pay, or I'll start sending you some official looking paperwork myself.
- i_monk0
Are you 8? Take responsibility. Especially if you love going there, as you say.
- spot130
Whatever, if you broke the law, pay the fine. But it sounds like bull shit speed cameras and you would have no opportunity to defend yourself so I still say don't worry about it.
- youngdesigner0
If you don't pay now, you will pay in the future.
Maybe not in money, but somehow. There will be a judgement made.
- benfal990
Just pay them and don't ask questines.
C'est un ordre!
- e-wo0
1. Are you a UK citizen?
2. Were you in your car, a rental, or ___?
- dyspl0
haut les mains!
- omg0
Q. What do you do if you drive over a French man?
A. REVERSE!
- ETM0
Well, it depends if you wish to go back there again. Do you? Next time you land there and flash your passport, they may take you aside to settle your debt, or not gain entry.
- Does that actually happen? I definitely plan to go back.CuriousGeorge
- You said it was sent by the French government, not a municipality.ETM
- I shouldn't say for sure. I don't speak French well enough to know, looks official, all 3 are from different areas of France.CuriousGeorge
- yurimon0
Fck em change your name and get a new passport...
- benfal990
How much $$$ are we talking about here?
- CuriousGeorge0
Sounds like I should probably pay it. I was just wondering if there was any loophole for foreigners as I've heard some other countries have.
- TheBlueOne0
If you're not going back, fuck em.
- I'll definitely be going back. Love France.CuriousGeorge
- Well, that's your problem.TheBlueOne
- To each their own I guess.CuriousGeorge
- freedom fries!teh