Posted October 07, 2015
adaliabooks: He doesn't work in a cafe... he owns the cafe. Yeah, that doesn't necessarily mean he has $4000, but it looks like he's trying to seem poorer for sympathy and to get people to pay his fine for him...
Unless it's a relatively large place or successful, that may not matter. There's stores on wheels which might be considered hotdog stands, or vans that make burritos and Mexican food on the fly. Still with today's economy and how things are, people just don't have extra money at all even if they own a business (and assuming he could sell the business to pay the fine, that just leaves him soon-to-sell everything else just to eat until he's homeless). There's good research that shows that people's lives are ruined because they can't pay a $60 fine and they get arrested, refined, re-arrested, the $60 blows up to several thousand because they just don't have the money, and don't make enough to cover that crap.
As for what to do with the $4,000 if the pokemon company dropped it and he gets to keep it, i can only hope he buys games and giveaways and maybe hands them out like candy at the next PAX... That's what i'd probably do... Or offer a refund to everyone if the suit is over...
edit: Although it seems the settlement was pulled, not the lawsuit... so... *shrugs*
Post edited October 07, 2015 by rtcvb32