Perugia and Arezzo: Fake Traffic Tickets
Think twice about driving a rental car in Umbria. I have rented cars in Italy and France six or seven times and toured a lot of back roads happily....until my trip in May 2010! Apparently, the Police in all the secondary towns now have cameras that are on the lookout for rental car numbers on license plates. I am a very law-abiding driver; I have gotten a total of three moving violations in over 40 years of driving in the US (and several other countries). Yet, I have received notice from Avis that I got two citations from the towns of Arezzo and Perugia during the week I drove around Umbria/Tuscany back in the Spring. Nobody stopped me in either town. Instead, supposedly, my violations (explained in Italian only) are captured on film and I will be receiving fines totaling 200 Euros from the two towns. This is like something out of Kafka. What is really going on? Apparently, the...
