Brandon Perry: Lost ticket revenue in Arlington, TX

The Court here in Arlington offers a (5671 page) PDF with all the arrest warrants in the city for unpaid tickets. It turns out our city is currently missing $56,594,788.04 in revenue for tickets not paid.

If you download the PDF, you can add up the totals yourself. Convert it to HTML using pdftohtml and run:

k=0;for i in `cat outstanding_warrantss.html | egrep -o '[0-9]{1,6}\.[0-9]{2,}'`; do k=`echo "$k+$i" | bc`; done; echo $k

All in all:

bperry@bperry-desktop:~/Downloads$ k=0;for i in `cat outstanding_warrantss.html | egrep -o '[0-9]{1,6}\.[0-9]{2,}'`; do k=`echo "$k+$i" | bc`; done; echo $k
56594788.04
bperry@bperry-desktop:~/Downloads$ time $(k=0;for i in `cat outstanding_warrantss.html | egrep -o '[0-9]{1,6}\.[0-9]{2,}'`; do k=`echo "$k+$i" | bc`; done; echo $k)
56594788.04: command not found

real 10m45.130s
user 0m8.470s
sys 1m43.170s
bperry@bperry-desktop:~/Downloads$ 

We need a Dog the Bounty Hunter. That is quite a bit of monies.