Wedgie wrote:1) My housemate having approximately 500 condiments but no tomato sauce.
2) Driving to the shop to get tomato sauce for my son's chips and inadvertently parking in a spot where its deemed a bike lane for 90 mins a day (never usually shop at the time and trucks were parked in front of the signs) so the tomato sauce ends up costing me $242.
Covert State Taxation at work...
It is similar to the way "Supply Charges" for utilities do not reflect the cost of supply but the value of your property making them a covert form of Land Tax on the primary residence which we don't have
officially.
It is a bit rough in your situation.
Once upon a time they'd have reduced it to a caution in those circumstances.
But SA needs the dough for the rising debt - I copped two fines for the same type of offence in 2010 - exceeding the speed limit by 10-20 kph.
The NSW once was $84, and the SA one was about $250.