$1,000,000 Speeding Ticket!
Jason P
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Yes, you read that right.
Scrape your jaw off the floor, folks. No, that’s not a typo: a Swedish man behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG was slapped with more than $1 million in fines after being nabbed doing about 180 miles per hour on a Swiss road.
The 37-year-old Swede, Mikael Blomkvist whose name was not given, also suffered the confiscation of his new Benz by the police in addition to the world’s heftiest speeding fine. He managed to escape earlier detection because many of the Swiss traffic cameras are incapable of detecting vehicles traveling more than 125 mph; it was only when he shot past a newer radar that could register his speed that he was picked up.
But if you’re worried about losing your life savings for getting caught doing ten over in Switzerland, fear not—the Swiss determine fines based on the driver’s income as well as the speed of the car. Justice for the poor!
http://www.0-60mag.com/news/2010/08/the-million-dollar-speeding-ticket/
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Scrape your jaw off the floor, folks. No, that’s not a typo: a Swedish man behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG was slapped with more than $1 million in fines after being nabbed doing about 180 miles per hour on a Swiss road.
The 37-year-old Swede, Mikael Blomkvist whose name was not given, also suffered the confiscation of his new Benz by the police in addition to the world’s heftiest speeding fine. He managed to escape earlier detection because many of the Swiss traffic cameras are incapable of detecting vehicles traveling more than 125 mph; it was only when he shot past a newer radar that could register his speed that he was picked up.
But if you’re worried about losing your life savings for getting caught doing ten over in Switzerland, fear not—the Swiss determine fines based on the driver’s income as well as the speed of the car. Justice for the poor!
http://www.0-60mag.com/news/2010/08/the-million-dollar-speeding-ticket/
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By the way, going 180 mph in this car is the safety equivalent of going 85 mph in most pickups from the 80's ... at least to the occupants in the vehicles.
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That is what I immediately thought -- this is the guy from the Dragon Tattoo Books? He is loaded, no problem!
Really? So a guy going 150 mph who makes 50K a year should pay less than a guy making 2,000,000 a year going 90mph? Makes perfect sense. Equal crime=equal penalty. :roll:
All I'm saying is lets say his mechanic was driving the car at the same speed? Wh yshould he pay less than the owner based on income?
Maybe everything should be income based now? We can implant microchips in our wrists and when you walk into a store/restaurant/bar/car dealership the prices of each item are adjusted by how successful you are. Makes perfect sense.
lets say it should be 0.05% of salary regardless of income...you could make a case that this is fair
I really don't give a shit about formulas involving salaries/income for any crime/infraction. You do something your society deems as wrong everyone pays the same price/fine.
I'm SURE this ticket has gotten his attention and MAY cause him to think twice about traveling that speed in the future.
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So maybe a guy who murders his wife and make 5,000,000 a year should get 40 years in prison and a guy who murders his wife but makes minimum wage should get 2 years? To take it to a less extreme scale maybe a 10c member here who is succesfful should pay 1000 for a PJ ticket where a struggling college student should pay 12? Both would "impact" them just the same. Makes perfect sense. :roll: Society always wants to blame/punish/tax the affluent. The better you do, the more the bottom feeders want to take. My opinion will always be equal crime=equal time.
equal crime, equal time....my ass
So me and you are driving to Montana and we are in a caravan. You're following me and we are going the same exact speed. Both of us are pulled over. Why should you or me pay a different fine based on income?
first, you wouldn't be driving across MT....
second, you missed the point....
and say i'm rich rich rich...
and i speed everywhere, because a couple of $'s just doesn't bother me....i also don't worry about insurance rates, because i'm self insured.
you are a poor slob....that can barely buy gas. so you have to drive the speed limit, because you can't afford to get pulled over without insurance....
yup...the rich guy benifits.
i dunno..i sort of like the sliding scale fine system.
No I didn't miss your point. I think you missed mine. Involving people's incomes in simple traffic infractions is just so fundamaentaly wrong and opens the door for so many other things.
People being able to hire better lawyers, have contacts, etc. is an entirley different issue than this.
You speed...you pay the fine. Everyone pays the same fine. No big governement trying to determine "what will teach someone a lesson" based on their economic status. That's straight up BS right there.
You also get caught speeding enough and eventually your license accumulates enough points that it's revoked. Very fair system for all those who drive.
No different than using the same two people in your example going to the mall. The rich guy can buy whatever he wants. The poor slob can't. Maybe the prices at the stores should be put on a sliding scale so they both can equally buy the same products? That's fair right? :roll:
If you can afford to wipe your ass with hundred dollar bills (as this guy apparently can), a $5,000 fine (as an example) is basically meaningless. Oh, wait. You used an EYEROLL EMOTICON. I didn't notice that at first. That completely validates your position.
So a guy that wipes his ass with hundred dollar bills should pay a bigger fine than someone who may have never even seen a hundred dollar bill? That's fair. I'll never own a 50 million dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills either. Maybe they should lower the prices of those homes on a sliding scale for me then. Perhaps we should all be paid the same income despite efforts in the workplace and we can turn the entire world into a commune.
Blaming/taxing/over fining the affluent is a major cop out in this world. When shit doesn't roll or go the less affluents way all they do is blame the rich.
The guy driving 180 mph no matter of his social status is irrelevant of what danger they pose to society.
We're talking about someone who's being punished for breaking the law. I really don't see what that has to do with access to affordable over-the-top luxury.
Whatever. I think the Swiss system i's fair. You don't. I guess we'll leave it at that.
Ok. We will leave it to an analogy just based on law beaking. A street corner drug dealer shoots a prostitue in the head over a dime bag dispute. On the other hand a multi millionaire shoots someone in cold blood over a business deal gone bad. I guess the millionaire should be punished worse than the street level guy correct? I mean he has more money so obviosuly his crime must be worse. He has more money so obviously his debt to society should be bigger, correct?
Plus I would venture a guess and say you think it's fair becasue it doesn't impact you. I'd love to see people's reactions to this policy in the US if you found out your neighbor paid less of a fine than you did after committing the same traffic infraction.
Not true. The more cash you have may allow for better court advocates and counseling of the law but everyone has an equal chance of being convicted of a crime. Again, this has zero to do with the principle of someone paying a heavier fine for the same offense based on income.
you really should get out more if you believe cash doesn't buy preferiential treatment in the united states