Goddammit.
So, eight years ago, I got arrested for something minor in Tucson and got a seventy five dollar fine. In court, the judge had my name wrong. Of course when I tried to correct it, the judge yelled at me. Then, when I tried to pay, the cashier would not accept my money. She claimed it was not showing up on the system. I tried to give her my social security number, and she refused to even check under that. Fine, I thought, I wasn't going to argue with her about whether I should be paying them money.
This was in 1993.
Today, I get a collections notice in the mail stating that if I don't pay in fifteen days, that I will have my wages garnished and my income tax returns seized, as well as listed with collection bureaus.
Did I mention this was over seventy five dollars, eight years ago?
So now they're saying I have fifteen days to pay this.
Is Pima county really that broke that they have to hunt down people who had a small fine eight years ago?
The thing is,too, it's not like I had any way of anticipating this. I lived in Tucson for two years after this happened. In all that time, they never once attempted to collect the debt. Now, when it's been the better part of a decade, and when I'm completely broke (I was doing well for money in Tucson. I paid a hundred bucks a month in rent and made anywhere from $250-500 a week. Now, I'm unemployed without enough free time to change that.) they come after me.
Bastards didn't have the common courtesy of sending a pre stamped envelope, either.
Anyhow...
It seems I was mistaken about the post game riots. It wasn't a football game. My sources tell me that it was a soccer game.
Now that just amazes me.
I hadn't thought Kalamazoo to be the kind of town to have soccer riots, but I guess it is. I thought that kind of thing only happened in Europe.
It makes me want to go spraypaint the street where it happened, I figure I could write:
Kalamazoo es merde, Roma es campione!
This is a very strange town...