CALUMET, Mich. (AP) -- Police in this Upper Peninsula town had forgotten about the $1 parking ticket written on Sept. 1, 1976. But the woman it was issued to hadn't.
The ticket, a $20 bill and a note arrived at police headquarters last month in a plain white envelope with no return address.
The note read: "I always had good intentions of paying it. I put it aside and every once in a while I would come across it and said `some day I'm going to pay it.' Now I think it's time."
The fine for an unpaid meter violation increased to $5 after 72 hours, but Police Chief David Outinen says the fee didn't compound itself beyond that. He tells The Daily Mining Gazette of Houghton that he can't remember someone making good on an unpaid ticket after so much time.
Or, as the woman wrote: "Please don't try and track me down. I am a respectable lady."