- A Florida woman has racked up $165,250 in property fines.
- This includes $101,750 in fines for parking on the grass.
- The state Supreme Court decided not to hear her case.
It’s the end of the road for a Florida woman who owes $165,250 in fines for “minor infractions,” such as having some vehicles partially parked on her lawn. It’s a devastating blow to Sandy Martinez, but she has to accept defeat after the Florida Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Martinez was being represented by the Institute for Justice and the nonprofit said six people live at the Martinez home and four drive vehicles. When all of them were parked on the driveway, one vehicle would have two tires on the lawn.
That’s a $250 fine in the city of Lantana and those fees quickly added up to $101,750. Doing the math, that’s 407 days of violations and a legal filing claimed Martinez couldn’t park on the street because there is no curb and the “roadways in front of and beside the house are only wide enough to handle two-way neighborhood traffic.”…