Remember that one time you got a traffic ticket and had the intrusive thought of, "What would actually happen if I just... never paid this?" Well, if you're an Audi driver in Washington, D.C., apparently the answer is "not a whole lot for quite a long time."
DC police finally impounded a black, second-gen Q5 last Wednesday after it accumulated a total of 893 unpaid tickets, equaling fines of more than $260,000—$262,204 to be precise, according to a license plate search done by WCNC .
The outlet reports that 29 tickets were issued in just the past two months, all of which were for speeding between 11 and 20 mph over the limit. On X , the DCPD posted two pictures of the vehicle getting towed along with a statement, "Repeated disregard of traffic law is unacceptable. We'll continue to track down scofflaw vehicles to keep DC roadways safe."
As an aside, I was admittedly today year's old the first time I ever encountered the word "scofflaw," and let me just say, it's a perfectly constructed word for what it means.
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It's a black Audi thing, you wouldn't get it
There's a trend (if you can call two notable instances a trend) of drivers of black Audis simply not giving a hoot about traffic tickets. Last year, a black A6 in New York gained notoriety after racking up 968 tickets (950 for speeding) over its lifetime, totaling more than $58,000 in fines, about $46,000 of which were indeed paid as of a year ago.
Now, we're not saying all black Audis are driven by recklessly well-funded speeders. What we are saying is that if we had a nickel every time a black Audi made headlines for racking up hella traffic tickets, we'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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