An alert reader points me to this story, about how Governor Kohoutek is going to reinstate 10,000 more suspended driver’s licenses without requiring the deadbeat license-losers to pay their fines. Combined with Killer Kate’s similar clemency, that’s about 18,000 traffic violators who have gotten to stiff the state on their tickets in less than a year.
I guess there was a time when I would be outraged at the lawlessness of this, but let’s face it, nowadays you get numb to lawless around here.
It’s only “equitable,” I suppose, that the people who broke traffic laws in the past be allowed to get away with it, given that currently there are no longer any traffic laws beong enforced at all on Oregon roads. At least not in the Portland area, where certifiably crazy drivers are now legion.
Besides, I’m sure most of those 18,000 suspended drivers are still out there driving anyway. Without traffic cops, only fools care about minor details like driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations.
The latest round of irresponsibility is just a little more decay. At this point, it’s hardly noticeable.