>All good points - but what is my friend supposed to do? Just deal with the fact he's going to be sitting in jail every couple of months?
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>He's tried just about everything - now he's even written to a congresman for help - who actually responded to him & met with him and is trying to see what can be done - but it's a slowww process. Heck he's even scared to drive a car now because he's afraid if he gets a ticket or something he'll end up in jail....not that it matters really anymore, because that already happened once. They towed his car, and even though they got the wrong guy he still had to pay the fee for the tow and storage (which seems ridicilious but "that's the way it works"). By the time he got out (and realized he'd lost yet another job) the bill was so high he ended up loosing his car too! Now just imagine what would be happening if was a single father and was responsible for a coupla kids.
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I would contact the news media, the mayor, the police chief, the . . . . He needs to make himself a celebrity, so maybe the cops will all know about him. If it keeps happening, I'd sue the city.