[Mr. Blonde]

Alright. I'm going to start this story from the beginning. Basically, I got a speeding ticket Mid November '05 for going 16 over in a 55mph zone. There are other details, but that's the gist of it.

I havent had a ticket since I was 18, about 4 years ago, so I went ahead and opted for the ticket diversion program. There were three conditions to this diversion, that A. i hadn't had a ticket in the past two years. B. I had never been arrested or have any prior convictions and C. I forget what the third one was. So I did it, went through all this bullshit red tape, and paid $182.00 to erase the ticket.

About a month later, I received a letter at my home address (rather than here, where i strictly told them to mail anything), and my dad calls and says i owe money for a ticket, and that they're re-instating the ticket. Naturally, this happened on a Friday afternoon, so i had the whole weekend to get pissed off about this. I called on Monday to find that, they found that a minor consumption ticket that I received sophomore year was the cause of this violation of contract. However, I diverted the ticket, and was never technically arrested, and it shouldn't be on my record.

They are keeping my 182.00 and tomorrow are expecting me to pay the ticket as well. This all seems pretty shady to me. If they really are basing it off of the minor consumption, which shouldn't be on my record anyways, shouldn't they do a pre-diversion background check to see if i'm eligible, rather than taking my money and then doing it afterwards?

The only thing I could think that could legitimize this, was that traffic and minor consumption tickets are in the same bracket, which would mean that i did get a ticket/diversion in the past 2 years, which i just thought of while writing this. Regardless, the fact that they didn't do a background check and are just taking my money post-facto is pretty shitty.