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impounding laws

i would like to know if my car can be impounded here in colorado for outrageous tickets i got in california. the tickets are over due, and its my understanding that i do not have to pay them as long as i dont go back to california for something like 5 years... and since colorado is not california why would my car be impounded for something i did in another state, its like getting a ticket in canada and being impounded here in america. california has no business affecting me in another state, there's no federal system tracking people with unpaid parking tickets across the country to impound their cars, that'd just be asinine. california is a rip off of a state... its a whole and a huge trap. also the tickets got sent back to nebraska and i live here in colorado. i doubt they could find me anyway.

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  • andy13
    andy13 Posts: 216 Forumite
    WOW! You ask for advice on UK site. How would we know what US law is?
  • treatb wrote: »
    i would like to know if my car can be impounded here in colorado for outrageous tickets i got in california. the tickets are over due, and its my understanding that i do not have to pay them as long as i dont go back to california for something like 5 years... and since colorado is not california why would my car be impounded for something i did in another state, its like getting a ticket in canada and being impounded here in america. california has no business affecting me in another state, there's no federal system tracking people with unpaid parking tickets across the country to impound their cars, that'd just be asinine. california is a rip off of a state... its a whole and a huge trap. also the tickets got sent back to nebraska and i live here in colorado. i doubt they could find me anyway.

    Sorry mate, dont know, we are UK based an only know UK law. Sounds like the US motorists gets used as a cash cow just like we do in the UK. Hope you get your car back, stick to the b*stards.
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  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 33,076 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Surely a debt is a debt no matter what state your in?

    So if you move state all debts become null and void?
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • Surely a debt is a debt no matter what state your in?

    So if you move state all debts become null and void?

    Dont even start getting into the differences between state and federal law, and felonies and misdemeanors.....................
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