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I think you're lucky.
Here the rentals companies have your credit card details and they will charge it for fuel topup etc if it's not fill. Part of the contract is that they will also charge you for any unpaid tickets or road tolls you rake up.
Maybe you paid for it as part of the bill without realising it?
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Did some software for a car rental, hired a car during that period, got done in a speed trap (saw the flash) going a little bit too fast (180 in a 120k zone).
Changed the rental details to a non existent foreigner. Never saw the ticket.
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How the hell can you upvote, because this one needed it.
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Ticket, ticket, ticket. I think you may have an issue, sir.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Be careful doing that abroad. Some countries tie their traffic ticket system in with border control. You could find yourself denied permission to leave and sent back to wherever the incident happened to pay in person. a PITA if you were planning to drive across the border, a likely missed flight and new air ticket at a higher cost than the traffic one if by plane.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think this would be a great contest for any country that has sufficient snowfall and cold weather.
Concrete toboggan
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I've heard of concrete canoe competitions.
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Holmenkollen, the great ski jump in Oslo, Norway, the landingslope ends in a small lake. (You can see it at Holmenkollbakken - Wikipedia[^].) In summer, they sometime set up a jump at the bottom of the slope, and arrange acrobatic competitions for jumpers doing the landingslope on roller-skis, doing saltos and twists of all kinds, diving into the water.
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I have been there some years ago, fantastic
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Turns out, you have to have money before it can be tested
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I tried to calculate how many gumballs my money would buy, but got a divide-by-zero error.
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Where do you get free gumballs?
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Did you find it taxing anyway?
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I once worked for a company named "Flunker", guess what: they went bankrupt
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There's a trucking company here call Fluke[^] - their motto? "If it's on time it's a Fluke"
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Yeah, saw the film "Cool hand fluke"
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That reminds me of the German airplane maker Junkers.
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I know them, they make fine boilers
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I once visited a "Flugausstellung" museum near Trier in Germany, they had a lot of interesting planes, among which a Ju 52. Sadly there were only parts left of the notorious Stuka, it seems no Stuka's survived WWII.
Nevertheless I can recommend the museum: Flugausstellung Junior 2017[^]
[Edit] Two intact Ju 87s survive, see: Junkers Ju 87 - Wikipedia[^]
modified 29-Jan-18 14:40pm.
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For everyone in the midwest (of the US) I highly recommend a drive to Dayton, OH and a multi-day visit to the National Museum of the USAF[^] at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Pretty freaking cool!
I nearly wet myself when I got to walk up to the Lockheed SR-71A[^]
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IIRC, there is an SR-71 at the Smithsonian Museum near Dulles Airport. I was once on a very long trip abroad, and I allowed myself to get bumped a day for 400 EUR CASH , so I had a few hours to kill, and the nearby museum fit the bill wonderfully.
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Isn't the Enterprise still out there somewhere around Dulles?
FWIW there's also an SR-71 at the Evergreen Aviation Museum[^].. for those on the left coast.
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