Think about the sheer shock on a Georgia man’s face when he was slapped with a rushing ticket that got here with a jaw-dropping fantastic of $1.4 million!
On Sept. 2, Connor Cato was making his approach residence when the Georgia State Patrol pulled him over for rushing at a whopping 90 miles per hour in a 55-mile-per-hour zone, in response to a report by native information outlet WSAV-TV.
In Georgia, there is a “Tremendous Speeders” fantastic imposed on drivers hitting speeds of 75 mph or greater on 2-lane roads or 85 mph or sooner on different roads and highways, so Cato knew he was about to get a hefty fantastic, however by no means in one million years did he assume it was going to be so excessive.
Since he was in Savannah, which enforces court docket appearances for drivers exceeding 35 mph over the pace restrict, and fines are decided by a choose, he known as the court docket, considering it might have been a typo.
“$1.4 million, the girl instructed me on the cellphone,” Cato instructed WSAV-TV. “I mentioned, ‘This could be a typo’ and he or she mentioned, ‘No, sir, you both pay the quantity on the ticket otherwise you come to court docket on Dec. 21 at 1:30 p.m.’”
However fortunate for him, it turned out to be a mere placeholder that was auto-generated by an e-citation software program, and never the precise fantastic.
Joshua Peacock, the spokesperson for Savannah’s metropolis authorities, clarified to the Related Press {that a} fantastic can’t surpass $1,000, along with state-required bills.
“We don’t difficulty that placeholder as a menace to scare anyone into court docket, even when this individual heard in another way from any person in our group,” Peacock instructed the AP.
He added that the court docket is presently making efforts to switch the placeholder language to stop any future misunderstandings.
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