They deserve to lose them, they are idiots basically, twice idiots. Once by incurring the fine in the first place, second by not paying it. They could just as easily have been speeding fines, the end result would be the same doc. Plenty of people incur speeding fines here and SPER goes after them, same with fines for illegal drugs and often the people caught believed they had the inalienable right to do those things.
These sort of clickbait stories are designed with one purpose in mind, to illicit a strong emotional response from the reader. To get the reader so wound up they can't think straight.