Pay the ticket. If you don't, they can stop you from doing everything from renewing your drivers' license or license plates to checking out a library book in your municipality. And normally when you don't pay a ticket, the fines increase and the municipal court for the municipality to whom the fine was due issues a bench warrant. That's a warrant for some unfinished business between you and the court (the judge sits on "the bench," which is where that name comes from). It's not a warrant that allows them to search your house, but the next time you get pulled over or ticketed for something else, they see you have a bench warrant on your record and off you go to jail. For something that was totally preventable. In the end, you'll end up paying a lot more money, and possibly sacrificing some freedom, than if you just suck it up and pay the fine now when it's low.