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So today, my friends and I collectively accumulated no less than $1,000 worth of fines in the city of Hoboken today. Don't get too concerned, we're not criminals, here's what happened. So not to conflict with NYC's celebratin, Hoboken celebrates St. Patty's day 2 weeks early. There is a parade and lots of fun times. So my friend invited me and 4 other people to her apartment for brunch and then to watch the parade. We went over there and had a lovely brunch complete with mimosas. We were a little late for the parade so we poured the leftover mimosas into cups and headed out. Well we hadn't gotten more than 1 block when 2 cops came up to us and asked us for our IDs and gave each of us a ticket for having an open container of alcohol. $250 EACH!!! It was pretty ridiculous considering we probably had 20 parts OJ, 1 part champagne in that cup. I was highly amused and even asked the cops if I could take my picture with them and the ticket. They declined.
So that is $750, BUT my friend who invited us over to her house had parked her car slightly into a crosswalk, and because it was so busy instead of just ticketing and waiting for her to move it, they TOWED her. To get her car out of the impound will be at minumum $250. So the parade was awesome, but was by far the most it's ever cost me to watch a parade!!
As if I didn't like Hoboken enough already....