04-18-2014, 03:27 PM
Speedy wrote:If you spent 24 hours in the lockup shouldn't you have only owed $8?
I can empathize ever so slightly. I got a citation for hitchhiking when I was a freshman in college. The judge sentenced me to five days or $10. I said I'll take the five days. Then he got up and left the court along with all the other court personnel. I didn't have the $10 so I headed for the jail which was in the same building; it seemed like the thing to do. The guards didn't know what to do with me and they couldn't get ahold of the judge right away to see what was up. They told me the court officer should have taken me into custody and arranged for me to be locked up. They said I could come back later that day which I did and when I returned they had figured out what to do with me. After 24 hours in the lockup my roommate had raised the $10 for the fine and got me out.