I'm a Monkey! Monkey, Monkey, Monkey!

Fewer paying speed-camera tickets in Arizona

[W]hen state Department of Public Safety officers served 37 unpaid photo-enforcement tickets to Vontesmar recently, he wasn’t fazed.

The photos all show the driver wearing a monkey mask.

“Not one of them there is a picture where you can identify the driver,” Vontesmar said. “The ball’s in their court. I sent back all these ones I got with a copy of my driver’s license and said, ‘It’s not me. I’m not paying them.’ ”

Hey, Buddy, Can You Spare a Few Hundred Thousand Dimes?

STUDENT DEBT vs. AVERAGE INCOME

I graduated with about $10k in debt from college, much of which was deferred while in the navy and again in graduate school. I paid off the last of it more than 15 years after graduation. I incurred no debt for grad school — teaching and research assistantships paid a stipend as well as tuition. Having a few times that amount of debt would have been tough.