When higher education puts the stress on “high”. Columbia University and UC Berkeley sat down and decided to try and figure out why UN diplomats don’t pay their parking tickets. Um, ok.

Their main finding was that diplomats were more likely to run up unpaid parking fines if they hailed from countries with a history of unchecked corruption, such as Nigeria.

But a second factor - poor U.S. image - emerged when the researchers matched the list of offenders against a 2002 world public opinion survey performed by the Pew Research Center.

Well, Toronto can safely say that they are not the only place that gets screwed by dead beats.

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