PALM HARBOR, Fla. - William Fogarty doesn't understand the fuss. He just forgot to pay a parking ticket. When he finally realized it, the 86-year-old retiree made good and mailed in a money order, to pay a $1 ticket he got 60 years ago.

 

Fogarty got the ticket in Norfolk, Va., in May 1946. Soon after, he bought a $1 money order to pay the fine but forgot to send it in. About a month ago, as he was looking through a box of collectibles from his Navy days, Fogarty discovered a wallet with the money order inside.

 

So he wrote a letter to the Norfolk Police Department and included the money order.

 

"At my age, when I go out of here, I don't want to owe anyone a dime," he told the St. Petersburg Times.

 

Fogarty's money order will not be cashed, Norfolk police Officer Chris Amos said. Instead, it will be framed and displayed in the department's museum.

 

"It's one of those restoring your faith in mankind things," Amos said.

"At my age, when I go out of here, I don't want to owe anyone a dime," he told the St. Petersburg Times.

 

:lol

 

That's awesome.

1 point for kewl old people

 

Boca represents minus 20 points though

 

 

still kewl old guy.

"At my age, when I go out of here, I don't want to owe anyone a dime," he told the St. Petersburg Times.

 

:lol

 

That's awesome.

i agree whole heartedly there...lets go old people, lets go!!! :thumbup

There's some a**holes out there in the world that would try to make him pay a massive late fine after that..fortunately, the Norfolk Police Department isn't like that

I don't want to think about what the lateness payment plus interest would have been....