> The fee for not paying a fine on time can be a weekend stint in jail, whereby you will get charged for room and board.

looks at this in complete puzzlement

I'm constantly amazed at just how broken the US system is in almost every possible way.

And just for the record, there is no such thing as payday loans in Europe. At the very least not in Germany. The first time I heard of these was when John Oliver did a segment on them.