Fines Abroad

Have you ever faced a fine abroad? Ever been locked up?

I just received notification from Hertz that I drove down a limited access street in Rome (VIA S.MARIA MAGGIORE VARCO N. 15) and that I currently owe a fine to the Italian police. However, I can't even find a place to pay the stupid fine, and the Rome police fine payment site says the QR code I got is invalid. I also have not received a formal notice in the mail, just an email from Hertz.

Do I even pay this stupid fricking thing? I probably won't go back to Italy in the next five years, but I want to be able to rent cars from Hertz again. Can the Italians even do anything about this if I don't pay?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Italians probably won't be able to do shit if you don't live in the EU and have a car.
    Hertz will likely charge you or not let you use their services again if you don't pay.
    Just contact customer support to figure out what to do.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Do I even pay this stupid fricking thing?
    No, they might send you mean letters but can't force you to pay especially after a minor infraction. 99% this was issued by an automated system that is for euro's to submit to. Dumb non EU tourist doing dumb thing is not worth the paperwork.

    Like the other anon said, contact support but personally I wouldn't bother unless they send you something formal in the mail(physically).

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Frequent car renter here. The industry standard is charging you the cost of the fine if it's tied to the car, plus a fee for their inconvenience.

    It's one thing to ignore some EU police state, but if you frick with car rental chains (and only 3 exist in the world which owns all the others) you will get put on a Do Not Rent list for life and cannot be revoked

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You have to be ironic to characterise European states as police states. In your country you will get shot if you don't play twister real time for some power tripping moron. Your country made possession of silver illegal at a time and tried confiscating anything that wasn't sold. Glass walls, etc.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        1. you're guessing he's American. There's actually about 200 other countries out there, look around a bit.
        2. Europe's Kafkaesque bureaucratic-tyranny police state is just as much of a police state as USian 'shoot first' anarcho-police state

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          1. Obvious American who has never left his home state
          2. Obvious /misc/tard who has never had a passport

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Wrong on all counts, want to try again?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't you mostly pay these fines via the hire car company who also frick you over with massive fees?

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    got """fined""" by police in colombia when they found me in the street off my chops on packet

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      satchet is better.
      packet is pleb tier.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I rode the ubahn illegally in Berlin in 2019, they sent me a mail to pay my fine to my home in turkey, idk how they found the address, but german autism knows no bounds. I see how they conquered europe tbh

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I got a speeding ticket in Jordan. I never paid it. The same in Brazil, but I contested the local rental car's additional charge and got a refund. I ripped up the piece of paper they gave you upon arrival in Mexico when I left the airport. I didn't know you needed it to depart. No other country I've been to does this. I had to pay some kind of administrative fee to get another. I was also caught on the ubahn in Berlin without a ticket, and paid 50 euros. I got into an argument with a guard in Cairo and we both talked with the police chief and I was made to sign a form saying I wouldn't press charges for him shoving me. I was once deported from somewhere for 'not registering', but that wasn't a big deal in the end.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I got pulled over for speeding in Iceland. Cop couldn’t be bothered with the paperwork for an overseas licence and just told me not to do it again in the future.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >first time visiting Mexico
    >sitting on a bench
    >having a beer with a Canadian guy and a Russian guy from the hostel
    >police pulls up with phone out saying "6500 pesos or 36h arrest"
    >I speak fluent Spanish
    >takes me to the side, asks if I have israeliteelry or cash, I show him one of the bank accounts which only had 200 pesos in it thanks god
    >he agrees but is too fricking dumb toknow his BIC/SWIFT, calls wife
    >in the end they just take Canadian guy's 1000 pesos in cash
    What fricking annoyed me the most was how happy the Canadian guy was. "Hurr Durr man that was so cool it's like in the movies!", wtf man you just got scammed.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. The fricking c**t Polacks in Poland fined me for not "activating" my tram ticket that I had bought

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's a paper ticket you mong, with a time limit printed on it. You buy one and activate it when you want to use it. Trams are covered in signs in both English and Polish saying that you need to redeem your ticket.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There are many places where the ticket is automatically activated at the time of purchase, some leniency for tourists wouldn't be the worst policy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        that is the most moronic shit ever, as much as I hate the UK at least we don't have that bullshit.
        >purchase ticket
        >having possession of said ticket allows you to travel
        what possible justification is there for such as stupid concept other than to fleece forgetful people and tourists? 'activate your ticket' lmaoo

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It makes it easier to purchase tickets in advance, or in case of single rides without time limits, allows inspectors to see if the ticket is not being reused on a different train.
          It's not a problem for locals, as they have to stamp/validate their tickets all the time, but tourists should be handled more carefully.

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