re: New Orleans is owed $135 million in traffic cam tickets and is struggling to collect

pretty sure I owe a few thousand on that list. I have never paid a Single. fricking. One. of those tickets.

This was settled in courts several years ago: It's not a "criminal" fine and they cannot issue bench warrants for failure to pay. The camera company pays the municipality their share, then hounds you for the total. If you don't pay, it's a civil court matter and gets turned over to collections. Then it gets packaged with all the other unpaid tickets and sold down to the next bottom feeder collection agency. In the age of cell phones, block the frick out of those numbers when they start calling you. They will stop, believe me. And none of those frickers ever showed up on a credit report.