A speeding motorist driving at 199 mph on Germany’s Autobahn is fined more than $1,000
German police say a motorist has been clocked driving at more than 199 mph on the Autobahn west of Berlin. He was traveling at more than 124 mph above the speed limit.
You're viewing a single thread.
All fines should be scaled with income, like Finnish speeding tickets. A Finnish businessman was fined 120 000€ for driving 80kmh in a 50kmh zone.
This of course wasn't his first offence, having been fined many tens of thousands of euros beforehand. Makes me wonder though, why not just take his license away...
Oh I know, because he's rich enough to pay off the judges
Oh I know, because he’s rich enough to pay off the judges
You really can't pay off judges here. But if you can show that taking your license away would make things considerable difficult for you (like losing income) they'll let you keep it on certain cases.
You really believe that our judges and the rest of the justice system are incorruptible? Gee, I guess people like Vornanen have already been sentenced. Or did everyone just forget that a cop got blackout drunk, harassed a teenager and then shot a gun in the middle of Helsinki over a year ago? A pretty clear open and shut case which should've led to him being fired from the force but nope, he's still even in politics and will be allowed to have the politicians pension.
You really got to be a bootlicker to believe that our justice system isn't available for purchase
You really got to be a bootlicker to believe that our justice system isn’t available for purchase
It's not in a sense that's globally understood. Your Joe Average can't just bribe their way out of anything. Political and other social cirles and generic cronyism is another matter, but even there currency is pretty often something else than money.
That's my point: joe average can't do it, but rich people and politicians? They're doing shady as fuck deals around private hospitals and nothing's being done about it. They are allowed to do what they want as long as they don't get caught by the public, and even then they only get a slap on the wrist. Remember the cocaine findings in Arkadianmäki? Drugs for the rich and powerful but a weed smoker will be thrown to jail.
Oh and don't forget how the police are abusing their power to illegally spy on environmentalists. Who would benefit from stopping Elokapina, if not the rich and far-right aligned? You can bet nothing will happen to the officers in question
A lot of people have a lead foot, at least where I live you have to do worse to get your licence pulled.
In Australia we have points 12 i believe. Each offence is worth a fine and so many points.
When you're out of points you can't drive anymore
We have that too. Huh, looks like you actually do get a small number for just speeding. Never mind.
A lot of the stuff that gets you big points should probably get you banned or jailed immediately, but we've built our whole society around cars so they really don't like doing that.
Yeah 45kma over the limit is the harshest with 1000 dollar fine and 6 points, however there is a law driving at a dangerous speed which will land you in court with your car impounded and probably lose license straight away.
For instance we used to have open speed limits where I live in the Northern Territory so going 200kms wasn't really a worry on the remote highways where nothing is around.
Then the southerners started moving up and brought our speed limits to 130, but if your caught doing 175kms in the Middle of now where "safely" you get the fine.
However if you're doing 100kms in a school zone (40kms an hour) straight to jail
