
Tina Trineer won't forget to lock her car doors again after she received a $52 fine for not doing so at the Wakefield hospital
When Tina Trineer went to the Wakefield, Quebec hospital in early January, she didn’t even think about locking the doors in her vehicle. There was absolutely nothing of value in the car, which she describes as an old run-down beater.
But when the Wakefield resident opened her mail a week later to find notification of a $52 fine for not locking her vehicle doors, she was shocked.
“No thief in the right mind would steal my car or anything in it,” said Trineer.
She said the ticket has pushed her over the edge of her finances and she’s now forced to sell the car to pay the ticket, among other things.
“It’s another way for cops to harass us,” she said. [click to continue…]