The world's most punitive speeding fines

[Facetious]

The World's Highest Speeding Fines
Don't Speed Here Unless You've Got The Cash

How does a $200,000 speeding ticket grab you? For driving a mere 25 mph over the limit? Well, we're not talking about the U.S. -- this world-record speeding fine was levied in Finland -- but did you know that the maximum fine for speeding in some areas of Canada could reach $25,000? American drivers may or may not consider themselves lucky that speeding fines top out here at about $2500 for the worst offenders and that freeway speed cameras are a relative rarity. But what happens when they go on vacation? Speeders beware: We take a look at the world's most expensive places to get clocked.

Finland, Denmark (unlimited)
Highest Fines: $200,000 (or more)
Even if you're one of the richest men in Europe, a nearly $200,000 speeding ticket is going to pang just a little (and that was in 2002, when $200,000 was a lot of money). The Trick here is that Finland, and nearby Denmark, both levy speeding fines depending on the annual income of the driver unfortunate enough to pick up a ticket. In this case, records showed that Jussi Salonoja, a 27-year-old heir to a northern European meatpacking empire, earned $11.5 million in 2002, which after a complex calculation by the courts resulted in the world-record fine of about $200,000. And all that for driving 50 mph in a 25 mph zone. A Finnish business executive also had a $165,000 fine reduced to a mere $9000 after he restated his earnings to the courts.

Canada
Highest Fines: $25,000
Though generally a speeding ticket at the higher end in Canada will cost you no more than $1000 -- which isn't an insignificant amount -- a motorcyclist caught at 164 mph in Alberta last year paid out a whopping $12,000 speeding fine in a deal struck with prosecutors that allowed him to keep his license. The same court also has levied an $8,500 fine on a motorist who struck a similar deal. And just in case you're tempted to put your foot down on the province's incredibly straight, and often empty, freeways, just remember that the maximum fine for speeding in Alberta is $25,000. Excessive speeders in Ontario, meanwhile, also can face fines of up to $10,000.

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[Thomas O'Malley]

That must be out of date. In Belgium nowadays there are speeding fines which are combinations of going to jail plus the fine itself that goes up to 25.000,00€. Jail time then is about three years.
For Holland it says 800 dollars, that's out of date as well.

 

[Jon S.]

I've long said that fines in the States should be consummate with their incomes! That way EVERYONE would have an equal respect for the law(s)! The way it is now.....no rich people really have any respect for the law!

 

[meesterperfect]

I've long said that fines in the States should be consummate with their incomes! That way EVERYONE would have an equal respect for the law(s)! The way it is now.....no rich people really have any respect for the law!

are you poorly in the head ***?
theyve trained you to be a good little sheep haven't they?

I **** that kind of mentality.
are you employed sir?

how much is the average speeding fine?
200 bucks? then youre insurance gets jacked for the next three years and the state sends you an insurance surcharge bullshit of 2 or 4 hundred bucks for the next 3 or 4 years too.
thats not enough? you want more?
why would anyone condone the GOV being able to extort hundreds or even thousand of dollars from a citizen for driving a little fast, or even very fast?

more money for them to rob, line their own pockets with or simply waste.

would you like the GOV to tell you when to **** and **** too?
:hatsoff:

 

[Jon S.]

I wasn't speaking about speeding exclusively. I just don't see how you engender a universal respect for the law when the punishment isn't really equal. A $200 fine fine for someone making $2000 a month surely hurts a hell of a lot more than it does someone making $2000 a day or week for instance. A flat scale punishment that is universal is a regressive punishment.......as it hurts those who have less money to begin with more than it does those who can easily afford it. That is why the extremely wealthy get the opinion that they are above the law in all respects......because they rightly believe they can afford not to obey the law.....and they basically believe they can do whatever they want (usually within reason)!

 

[meesterperfect]

yeah, and each town can create an agency, hire a few women who have ****** working for the municipality or city already to figure out how much someone earned in the past and figure out a "fair" size dick to shove up their ass.
that should only cost the taxpayers a few hundred grand more a year, we can raise property tax or cut funding to the mentally handicapped to pay for it.

and **** up, in the usa its not about punishment, traffic fines are a big source of revenue for the municipalities, nothing more.

no offense but sincerley i think its sad that people think as you do.
more for the gov to take and waste.
the punishment for most traffic violations is already more than enough and they make good money off of it, they dont need anymore. there doing fine sitting on their asses in some office.
when they **** people with these fines and surcharge bills that money came from someones hard work, takes food out of peoples mouths.
to me its no different from organized crime.

 

[bustybbwlover]

damn...she's still holding out isn't she?

that does put fines here in the u.s. in perspective i must admit...tho i've gotten a dui (which was decently expensive to take care of), i have actually never gotten any other kind of driving *********

 

[Supafly]

I somehow get the impression meester's got a tendency to speed ^^

To me, the practice of relating the fine to the actual income really makes a lot of sense. Why would someone who earns a million a year give a **** about speeding limits if he just has to pay something like a twenty bucks and is free to go?

Relate that to a worker that earns, say, 25000 a year. He sure will think twice.

And PLEASE quit calling people *** etc. This is no barroom and patronising and bullying just does not work in here.

 

[larss]

Fining for speeding is about safety first and foremost. The fines should be commensurate with the violators ability to pay, so a rich man should pay more that a poor man.

MP - Even if it is "in the usa its not about punishment, traffic fines are a big source of revenue for the municipalities, nothing more", it is a tax then, and when I last looked taxes were based on income. If you earn more you get taxed at a higher rate - why should this not apply to arseholes who put other peoples lives at risk by doing double the speed limit in populated areas?