And he would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids and their dog

The fine is for poor quality of prank not the concept.

better fined for pretending to be a ghost than ghosted for pretending to be fine.

Instead of getting him a job as the local graveyard ghost they throw the book at him. This is woke culture run wild.

This gives me a business idea. I should try to get hired to haunt a funeral pretending to be the ghost of the deceased. I am sure there is a non-zero number of grieving relatives willing to pay for that service.