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Originally Posted by Rekna
Just raise the fines on the tickets. However, charging locals and non-locals different amounts is wrong (taxation without representation).
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It's not taxation, it's a service fee.
Where I'm from, drunken knucklehead rednecks like to drive their ginormous four by fours up the mountains and get them stuck in ten foot deep snow drifts. The search and rescue operations are FEE BASED. You go out being reckless and stupid, somebody will come haul your sorry ass back to civilization, and leave you with a bill, and that's the way it goes. There are occasional stories about people who honestly had bad luck and don't think they should have to pay, but even in those, there's usually some point in the story where you have to say, "well, there's your mistake right there". And it's not a stupidity tax: it's a SERVICE FEE. Those guys performed a SERVICE--putting themselves at risk, I might add--and they charge for it. And you couldn't have gone without it unless you wanted to walk down off the mountain and wait for Spring to release your precious truck. So shut up and pay, and then try to explain to your wife why you think you should go do it again next weekend.