Someone at my work was in an almost similar situation. He got a speeding ticket when he was in the US. Heard that the government couldn't pursue tickets over the boarder. So he didn't pay it. Then he started getting letters from a collection agency in the US. After that he was getting phone calls from them. He told them that he thought they couldn't go across the boarder for the debt. And they stopped calling after that. That whole process took almost two years, all the while the ticket which was $130 had climbed to $250. He thought it was all over and done with until he went to get a new mortgage a couple years later. The bank told him that he couldn't get a mortgage until he paid his debt (over $500 now) to the collection agency.
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