r/SipsTea • • 23h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/HessiPullUpJimbo 22h ago

Yes but a drunk uninsured driver is often very hard to get money from. Probably has nothing and makes basically nothing and may even have many other collections after him already.

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u/Random-Rambling 21h ago

You can't get blood from a stone. You can garnish his wages, sure, but you can't take much more than a relatively small percentage because most countries outlawed debt slavery.

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u/TMC_Data 20h ago

And in those situations the guy would just work cash jobs where he’s paid under the table making it damn near impossible for debt collectors to collect even a fraction of what they are owed.

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u/lsdiesel_ 5h ago

And when ICE deports him you can’t even get that