This kinda crap happens all the time in the DC burbs. The jurisdictions basically conspire to rip-off the taxpayers:
An outraged Montgomery County car theft victim is wondering why he is stuck with an 18-month old D.C. parking ticket written while thieves still had his car.
Now the District’s Department of Motor Vehicles has sicced a collections agency on Steve Steinberg to recover $205 the city claims he owes after the September 24th, 2006 theft.
Steinberg has vowed never to pay, and asks why instead of writing a ticket, DC officials didn’t notice the car was reported stolen when they recorded his license plate.
He also claims a DC auto theft detective told him the car may have been towed and released to a joyrider before it turned up abandoned in the District September 28th of 2006.
“During the time the car was stolen the District had their hands on the car twice and they failed to run the tags,” Steinberg alleges.
DMV has no record of the vehicle being towed, and the detective says he does not remember the conversation.
Of course not. Slip him $50, his memory might improve. That’s just the way things work in DC. Which, btw, spends an astounding $24,600 per pupil, per year on public school students.
