Posted on 06/07/2023 4:28:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
No one likes getting a speeding ticket, but we suspect Finnish businessman Anders Wiklöf is smarting after getting his recent citation. The staggering fine was the equivalent of $129,400 (121,000 euros).
Wiklöf was traveling 51 miles per hour (82 kilometers per hour) in a 31-mph (50-kph) zone. He told the Nya Åland newspaper that the road switched from a 44-mph (70-kph) limit down to 31 mph. He claimed he was slowing down, but not before the police caught him speeding.
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"From each according to his ability ..."
Coming soon.
Germany and France base traffic fines on income, and I think maybe Switzerland, Sweden and Norway.
Another form of progressive taxation.
California Wants to Impose an “Exit Tax”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIZM0D6X0T0&ab_channel=CarlDeMaio%2FReformCalifornia
Imagine if Elon Musk got a speeding ticket!
He should hire a driver. Pay them 5 dollars and hour. Such a driver can drive 100MHP and get a very small fine.
“From each according to his ability ...”
Unless you’re a Party member…then don’t worry about it. Bunch of f’n commies in CA and Europe.
Now, that’s what I call a speed trap!
They’re waiting for a really expensive car right behind the change in speed sign.
Maybe the person in Finlad was in a hurry to get to a rest room.
When you need to urinate
First you’re Russian
Then European
And finally Finnish.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/worlds-most-expensive-speeding-ticket-1-million-fine/
…The world record for the most expensive speeding ticket fine ever [$1 million] goes to a Swedish driver in Switzerland in 2010. The unnamed man drove his Mercedes SLS AMG sports car at a speed of 180 mph (290 kph)…
This is asinine and what you get when communist retards get into politics and think all rich people just magically discovered their wealth.
This trains the populace to BE dumb because then the government won’t punish them.
Have to pay for their free stuff somehow.
As much as I’d like to believe it couldn’t possibly happen, I look around at what’s going on in CA (my home state) and must, incredibly, believe it could.
I got a speeding ticket in Iceland as I was slowing down for a roundabout. Cost me $200. I think they target tourists.
I largely agree with you but on the grounds that this is just marxist liberals in government, with excessive powers, stomping on a successful, hard working, entrepreneur.
And, YES, the general public all over the world just doesn’t “Get it”.
Ahahahaha ... ICWYDT. 😆
Thanks but always think twice before encouraging corny or gross humor. As mine usually is.
For a fraction of that $129,400, someone can make sure that police officer never shows up to testify.
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