Swiss twins Harold and Michael Lengen have found the perfect loophole to get out of paying parking tickets:
Police say that in the last year alone the twins have collected 29 parking tickets on a car which they both share. But every time they refuse to pay them and tell courts that the other was driving.
And police say that as they are identical twins it is impossible to rely on visual evidence to prove who was driving the car when they got the ticket.
A police spokesman said: "It is immensely frustrating for our officers. Every time we hand one of them out a ticket we know what is going to happen next and that they will never pay it.
If you lend your car out and it gets a ticket, you don't have to pay the ticket if you can prove that you weren't the one driving at the time.
Nobody is driving when you get a parking ticket.
"Parking tickets, like red light cameras, and speeding tickets are the responsibility of the driver, not the vehicle owner."
The part about red light (and speed) cameras is only true in California and, like, three other states in the US. For the rest of the states getting caught on film is a no-points "civil citation". The burden of proof on the part of the state is much lower with a civil citation so it's almost impossible to challenge.
If an officer actually pulls you over and confirms your identity it gets bumped up to a moving violation. You might get points in this case but the state's burden of evidence is also higher.
Link:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,614245,00.html