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  • realJSOPR realJSOP

    Holy crap! Fines that large should be against the law.

    ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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    Kenneth Haugland
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    In your country I think it is :laugh:

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    • K Kenneth Haugland

      No, we are talking about speeding tickets, no? They can be given relative to the income IIRC, so not just taxes then ;) Although I think you'll have to drive really fast or kill someone: Norwegian law §27[^] Roughly translated: When the fine imposed, it should, in addition to the offense, taken into account of the condemned property and what he by his living conditions can be expected to pay. The fine accrues to the Treasury.

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      chriselst
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      Speeding fines are being increasingly linked to income across Europe. There was a story a year or two ago about some fella in Switzerland I think who was caught going very fast in a very expensive car and was looking at a record breaking fine.

      Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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        Speeding fines are being increasingly linked to income across Europe. There was a story a year or two ago about some fella in Switzerland I think who was caught going very fast in a very expensive car and was looking at a record breaking fine.

        Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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        Kenneth Haugland
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        Was it Jeremy Clarkson? :Laugh: It sounds reasonable, if you had lots of money you could in essence just pay to drive faster.

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        • K Kenneth Haugland

          Was it Jeremy Clarkson? :Laugh: It sounds reasonable, if you had lots of money you could in essence just pay to drive faster.

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          chriselst
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          It was a Swede in Switzerland[^]

          Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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          • K Kenneth Haugland

            In your country I think it is :laugh:

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            Lost User
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            In the US, fines so high are reserved for truly heinous crimes. Such as downloading a couple of songs off the internet.

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              In the US, fines so high are reserved for truly heinous crimes. Such as downloading a couple of songs off the internet.

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              Kenneth Haugland
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              Yeah, and in one of the cases the record company demanded more money than the industry had made since Edison invented the gramophone. :omg:

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              • realJSOPR realJSOP

                100,000 just give up, and die as a result.

                ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                Rage
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                OK, for the sake of stereotypes I could imagine agreeing that we "often" give up, but not that we give up living. :rolleyes:

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                I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  UK speeding fines to rise: up to £10,000 for speeding[^] Ouch! :omg:

                  Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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                  Nagy Vilmos
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                  Maybe they need a new campaign[^]

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    UK speeding fines to rise: up to £10,000 for speeding[^] Ouch! :omg:

                    Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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                    Mike Hankey
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                    Quotas are so passe!

                    If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      UK speeding fines to rise: up to £10,000 for speeding[^] Ouch! :omg:

                      Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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                      BobJanova
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                      Magistrates' fines rarely get near the maximum as it stands, this won't really make any difference, although it's good for headline writers.

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        UK speeding fines to rise: up to £10,000 for speeding[^] Ouch! :omg:

                        Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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                        PaulC
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                        Always wanted this question answering in the UK. We use the national speedway sign on a road because the speed is different for different types of vehicle. So for example. Dual Carriage way is 70MPH for a car...60 MPH for a transit VAN. So I am in a Car... and get camera'd at 69...But a transit VAN is doing 59...We are both technically speeding by as much. (In fact the VAN as a percentage is worse). But he doesn't get a ticket. Does this mean that as a Car driver I am being personally targeted...Isn't this unfair discrimination. Also just to make this really complicated some MPVs actually have a transit chassis, and as such should be doing 60 in this zone. I would love this argument to be brought up in court one day. You can imagine the police officer looking a bit dumbfounded ;)

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                          Always wanted this question answering in the UK. We use the national speedway sign on a road because the speed is different for different types of vehicle. So for example. Dual Carriage way is 70MPH for a car...60 MPH for a transit VAN. So I am in a Car... and get camera'd at 69...But a transit VAN is doing 59...We are both technically speeding by as much. (In fact the VAN as a percentage is worse). But he doesn't get a ticket. Does this mean that as a Car driver I am being personally targeted...Isn't this unfair discrimination. Also just to make this really complicated some MPVs actually have a transit chassis, and as such should be doing 60 in this zone. I would love this argument to be brought up in court one day. You can imagine the police officer looking a bit dumbfounded ;)

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                          PaulC
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                          Meant 69 and 79

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            You are going to be pushing to beat 186,000 miles per second... :laugh:

                            Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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                            _Damian S_
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                            I remember when they were testing the original speed cameras here in Qld... turns out if you were going 247km/hr or faster, you were out of the frame before the picture had been captured. I also remember seeing a speed camera pic of a guy caught doing 236km/hr and thought "man, if you had just gone that smidge faster!!"

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