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What's the deal with diplomatic immunity?

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The Six Most Ridiculous Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity

In 2011, New York City was owed $16.7 million in unpaid traffic tickets from people with diplomatic immunity. Between 1997 and 2002, foreign diplomats got more than 150,000 parking tickets. The biggest offender was Russia with 32,000 unpaid parking tickets. And they would almost literally have to try hard to do illegal things in your car to rack up that many parking tickets.

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