Finland has a very interesting way of curbing speeding. They pro rate your speeding ticket based on your income. A local millionaire got a $288,500 CDN :eek: fine for speeding in a 40 KM zone (see news link here) (http://www.canada.com/news/oddities/story.html?id=746DAD78-9564-46C8-8C4A-44FBEAD9C7F0)
Yikes! Talk about having a bull's eye painted on your back for the local speed traps!
mental pimp
02-16-2004, 04:32 PM
If you get a ticked and u pay lets say $90 where does that money go?
5Gen_Prelude
02-16-2004, 05:22 PM
Depends on who issues the ticket.
If I'm unemployed & I get cited does that mean I pay NOTHING!!! hahahah!!!
Finnish drivers: "I want to get fired now so I can go SPEEDING!!!"
Is this how Tommi Makinen started off then???
w2aew
02-16-2004, 07:00 PM
A lot of European countries do that. I have a friend that lives in Switzerland - same deal. Not only based on income, but also based on assets. I recently heard a story that Germany bases fines the same way. That story told of a wealthy tailgater on the Autobahn that was fined over $22,000.
RX8_Finland
04-26-2004, 02:06 AM
The size of Finnish speeding tickets is defined by the size of your salary..Me myself got 238e speeding ticket for driving 60kmh in 40kmh zone. If i made 1000e more in a month, i´d get like 600e fine..nobody really knows how the system here works..not even the police.But we manage..And yes thats how Tommi Mäkinen started..