You&#x27;re missing the point.  Of course he has to pay.  The punishment of spending a night (or weekend, if you get unlucky) in jail so you can see a judge in the morning is disproportionate to either losing or neglecting to pay a small fine.<p>It should not be the choice between go to jail for the night, or pay a third party private company an extra 25%.<p>Basically why does this exist?  Those that can afford to generally pay these fines eventually when they go to renew tabs&#x2F;get pulled over&#x2F;whatever.  Those that can&#x27;t afford them won&#x27;t pay them either way, and this just makes their already shitty lives shittier by likely putting them out of work.<p>There were times I got to work and back barely making ends meet when I had outstanding warrants for unpaid tickets.  I did what I had to do to feed my family, got back on my feet, and paid them off.  Automated scanners at every turn would have put me out of work, and minimum out of the bottom rungs of the career I currently enjoy.<p>At some point you need to stop kicking people while their down, and use a little common sense.  Extorting them another 25% or ruining their lives is ridiculous.<p>I agree you need a way to go after scofflaws, but the they are a very small minority in a very wide sea of folks kind of caught up in a system they are unlikely to get out of.  If you think Payday loan stores are bad, just get in debt to the government.