Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 22, 2014

I wonder what the punishment for repeat offenders would be?

Don’t pay it. Maybe he’ll come back eventually and drag you to jail.

If you tear up the ticket and throw it in the officer’s face, do they haul you in?

On the bright side, they have to come get you when you don’t show up for the hearing.

Doesn’t look like you’re getting your bottle back.

I thought this was B.C.’s shtick.

Every move you makeevery breath you takeevery buck you makethey’ll be watching you

Gilligan’s Grandson’s Island

Nah. That would only be the case if at least one of the castaways were black. See yesterday’s “Making It” comic.

I was wondering how this strip could be politicized; I was thinking something EPA-related. Shows how limited my imagination is.

The awful triumph of bureaucracy, or the downfall of reason.

“RESCUE YOU??? Whatever gave you the insane delusion that we were going to do a thing like that?! I’M here to give you this here citation for littering! There is no littering around here!”“But we don’t have any money! And even if we did, how would we get back to civilization to pay it?!”“That’s YOUR problem, not mine!”

Asking for rescue by inserting a message in a bottle is a time honored tradition. Apparently, we’re all expected to be able to text our requests for help now, even if located on a remote island with no servers…

In reality, you get rescued then fined – like when your ignorance requires the Coast Guard to helicopter rescue you from Morro Rock.

Too fine a line for government officials to tow. It either has to be every rescue gets charged or none of them do. If you ask a bureaucrat to make such determinations, he/she is going to err on the side of money. Also, if you can afford a 54’ pleasure yacht that sinks, you can afford to pay for your rescue regardless of whether the rock was on a map or not.

If you are going to end up in jail for unpaid fines Grab the guy on the boat throw him overboard and steal the dang boat!