yatica

[thnidu]

Yet Another Thing I Can't Afford (the money/time/attention... for) -- b/c there are so many kinds of thing that can fill in the blank.  -- Nov. 7 2010, changing tag from yagcica to yatica.

*(accented on the first syllable, which rhymes with "cat". If you read IPA, /ˈjætɪkə/ )
I'm starting a new tag with this one. No, as far as I know yagcica doesn't

Comments

[kd5mdk]

What's the point of paying 10% of the bail amount to be released? I suppose it gives them a substantially larger amount to go after you for if you do skip bail, but it overall seems to be missing the point to me.

[thnidu]

I think that's the bondsman's fee, but IDK. See subject line.

[dunkelpig]

The ten-percent is the down payment to the bond provider. But there has also been a number of articles in the past few months about people skipping bail and the city not reclaiming the remainder, which gives the bond people no incentive whatsoever to keep track of whomever they give bond to, has a lot of outstanding money lost to the city, and results in a great number of people who have been charged with serious crimes walking around unaccounted for.

The newspaper articles led to a shake-up in the city clerk's office. Previous articles have led to disbanding of the city's assessment system for incompetence and dishonesty, a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on police corruption, etc. This, of course, makes very clear why we can get all the news from the internet, and those pesky, expensive local news desks are no longer needed.

[madfilkentist]

Hey, this is someone who had once been accused of using marijuana, instead of good safe tobacco! You can't expect him to be treated like a human being.

[browngirl]

... yeah. I can't even say anything. It's familiarly awful.

[thnidu]

I know the judge's name is probably pronounced "REST-ock", prob. from Russian, but I can't help reading it as "ree-STOCK", as in restocking the jails with prisoners. Poor bastard, he didn't ask for his name. (OTOH... almost-but-not-quite-completely-irrelevant scholarly reference to come sometime later.)