FernieHawk
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I received an email from a friend a couple of weeks ago, he had sent it to dozens of people and he was just trying to be helpful. The problem was...the information contained within the email was not true.
Someone had forwarded information about a massive driving violation fine re-structure in BC and he was trying to warn his friends to be careful while driving in BC because some of the fines were huge. I had a hard time believing this information as couple of things did not ring as true. First was the amount of the fines...seemed crazy high. Second was the dollar amounts...in BC the driving violation fines have always been some weird unusual dollar amounts like, $178, $385, $98 etc, etc, ect. These new fines were all nicely ending in zero, $500, $1,500, $2,000.
So I went online to the ICBC website, I searched the internet using every phrase I could think of and I could not come up with anything that supported the info my friend had spread. I emailed him and asked who/what the source was and told him the info seemed to be inaccurate, but maybe I didn't find the relevant information...all he would say was it was a good friend who passed it on to him.
So where did this information originate and why has it continued to spread unchecked and unverified? Maybe it's someone who lives in BC and doesn't think the current fine structure is high enough to deter drivers from violating the rules of the road, so they made up there own fine structure and hoped it would spread like wildfire on social media?
Since I received that misinformed email I have had one other person repeating the misinformation about the new $2,000 fine...and so it carries on.
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