I can't afford stupidity. Can you?

Take the paint away...
and you have the car that someone parked outside my loading dock door this morning. Oh, and rip off all the body molding, roll down the windows and add a lovely rust patina to the outside where the paint used to be and you have my illegally parked car. And I have to call the wrecker to come get it.
The owner of this car abviously doesn't have the $100 or so it will cost to get it out of impound. What were they thinking?

When I managed a restaurant, we had employees that were driving without licenses, no insurance, expired inspection stickers, etc. Then when the police sees the inspection sticker and pulls them over, things get really expensive. So they spend $500 on tickets when if they had done what they were supposed to, it wouldn't have cost that much.
Sort of like when I was MUCH younger and a partying boy. My older brother taught me well - if you are going to party in the car, make sure all your lights are working. It would absolutely suck to get busted because you had a taillight out.
Leads me to the question, why are those that can least afford it, stupid?