Originally Posted by nico-t

many people don't realise that the government can clean out your bank account when they want to.

I had a ticket a while ago, went into appeal etc. But the huge amounts of burocracy lost track of the order of appeals. Then i got a letter saying 'if you dont pay, we will take the amount off your bank account'.

Thats when i realized even if you are right, they still can just take your money when they want to. Freedom, right?