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What would you do pay up or ignore? I got a ticket for a hire car I was driving in Holland. 190 euros by the end of the month or it doubles .
Is there any comeback or would i just get hastle next time I try and get into Holland.
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I'd get a rope for that if i was you... 😯 ... 😡 ... 😥
Don't know about the Dutch, but the Swiss are crazy strict about this (Jon Snow's autobiography has a good anecdote about him being dragged out of a hotel naked for this very reason...)
I got a ticket in Holland and just ignored the letters, a year later I went to Amsterdam on business and when I was coming home passport control swiped my passport and pulled me into Schipol police station.
As it happen I wasn't driving the but it was hired in my name which I explained to them. They were very polite and informed me that if I wanted to contest the fine I would need to do that to the judge the follwing day, in the meantime I would be held over night in a cell!
I paid the 80 euro fine and got on the plane!
If you never intend to go back to Holland ignore it, otherwise pay up.
Cheers
Neill
I got a letter telling me that they'd apply to have me extradited if I didn't cough up the 120 Gilder fine
I think you used to be able to ignore them - but now they will catch up with you eventually
thats what i was worried about as I go through Holland all the time. Bah. Looks like I'll need to cough up
and shave your toes while you are at it.
I can't comment with any accuracy or citations (just like all STW advice, then 😉 ) but enough to say with changes to enforceability of foreign judgements, European Arrest Warrants, much more cross-border debt collection etc etc the last 10 years has just about seen the end of the days where you were safe in one country from problems incurred in another.
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See a chiropodist and pay the fine, no escaping now as the police all talk to each other.
I paid online for a train ticket as I had underpaid on one fare in Australia as I missed the dam station from being not paying attention.
The officer let me through and when I offered to pay the remaining 20 cents the machine wasn't working.
He took all my details and I paid online as it would be recorded that I didn't pay against my visa etc and would have gone from $1 to $150.
Clear it as they will catch up with you from the hire company.
€190 is cheaper than €380!
See a chiropodist and pay the fine, no escaping now as the police all talk to each other.
Indeed when it comes to money they are all on the ball
i will have an interesting return to NZ - 'about that $400 Sir'........