Diplomats Have A $16M Parking Ticket Tab In NYC
Foreign diplomats have racked up a total of 16 million dollars in unpaid parking fines owed to the city of New York.
Nobody likes getting parking tickets, and paying them is even more unpleasant.
It seems even foreign diplomats feel that way as they’ve racked up more than 16 million dollars in unpaid parking fines owed to the city of New York.
The largest offender by far is Egypt with a debt of nearly 2 million dollars, which was amassed through the receipt of over 17 thousand violations.
Nigerian diplomats aren’t too keen on parking legally either, as they currently have over 75 hundred outstanding tickets totaling just under 900 thousand dollars.
Indonesia, Brazil, Morocco, and Pakistan also owe sizeable sums to New York City.
While they are the biggest offenders, they’re far from the only ones.
It’s been reported that at least 180 countries have failed to make good on their bad parking.
Most of the tickets owed were issued prior to 2002, the year city officials cracked down on the problem of cars left in inappropriate places.
Since then there’s been a significant decline in amount of violations given.
For example, less than 5 thousand dollars of Egypt’s whopping outstanding total has been the result of post-2002 fines.
Nobody likes getting parking tickets, and paying them is even more unpleasant.
It seems even foreign diplomats feel that way as they’ve racked up more than 16 million dollars in unpaid parking fines owed to the city of New York.
The largest offender by far is Egypt with a debt of nearly 2 million dollars, which was amassed through the receipt of over 17 thousand violations.
Nigerian diplomats aren’t too keen on parking legally either, as they currently have over 75 hundred outstanding tickets totaling just under 900 thousand dollars.
Indonesia, Brazil, Morocco, and Pakistan also owe sizeable sums to New York City.
While they are the biggest offenders, they’re far from the only ones.
It’s been reported that at least 180 countries have failed to make good on their bad parking.
Most of the tickets owed were issued prior to 2002, the year city officials cracked down on the problem of cars left in inappropriate places.
Since then there’s been a significant decline in amount of violations given.
For example, less than 5 thousand dollars of Egypt’s whopping outstanding total has been the result of post-2002 fines.
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