Everywhere in the world, and especially in countries that are still not fully computerized, the law enforcement authorities are faced with huge problems regarding unpaid fines, and this is especially true for parking fines. Do you pay your parking fines? You don’t have to answer that… let’s continue with the story.
Because of this problem, the law enforcement authorities have devised an excellent way to force us to pay our dues immediately - they simply tow the car away. However, towing is a clumsy and expensive process.
I once heard a novel solution to this problem from the city of Kiev, in the Ukraine. It appears to have been taken right out of the school of Systematic Inventive Thinking.
What do the authorities there do when they come across an illegally parked car? They simply remove the license plates from the offending vehicle and take them to the depot.
