I’m guessing the Germans fined them in US dollars because he was driving in mph. I’m sure they would have been OK doing 320 kph.
I was told the autobahn had no speed limit. I was lied to my entire life and it hurts.
Nope, only certain sections are without a speed limit.
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
A lot of people have a lead foot, at least where I live you have to do worse to get your licence pulled.
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
We Germans should do it like Denmark and confiscate his car and then take away the drivers license for good.
At over double the speed limit this would usually be classed as dangerous driving (a more serious offence than speeding) and result in instant disqualification in the UK, too. Though you wouldn’t be banned for good.
kph? Even if you don’t work with SI units, just don’t invent wrong ones. If lost, ask someone who knows. The correct abbreviation for “kilometers per hour” is km/h
You’re absolutely right
And the correct abbreviation of miles per hour is mi/h, but nearly everyone writes mph. Speedometers use mph and km/h, but I’ve seen kph a bunch.
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