So you "heard" that someone(s) got a $100 ticket. Eh ? But don't know of it/them personally. It's just something you heard. And I notice it's 2x removed (ie.: "heard it from a friend, who also heard it from a friend...")
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and speculate that if you try to trace it back through this "string of friends", that so TOO will they have "heard it from a friend".
All it takes is for someone to tell another person about a $100 fine (even if it never came to fruition on anyone), and by-the-time it reaches down 2nd and 3rd and 4th hand, it now morphs into "tickets being passed out".
I could be wrong, but I have seen this phenomenon happen first hand. Where the mere speculation, once it enters the gossip chain, becomes "imminent threat of jail and fines".
Yet when you go to poll the panel, it seems to always boils down to
"someone who told someone who told someone who told...." back to infinity.
And it appears that the O.P. "Josh" was there on 12/29/10 and (gasp) didn't get a ticket ? Let me guess: This was before the law went into effect , eh ?