Speeding driver fined £116,000 ($200,000 approx)

[marvinbarcelona]

Guess motorists in Finland are going to be driving mighty carefully for awhile.

"One of Finland's richest men has been handed a record 170,000 euros speeding ticket, thanks to the country's policy of relating the fine to your income.

Jussi Salonoja, the 27-year-old heir to a family-owned sausage empire, was given the £116,000 ticket after being caught driving 80km/h in a 40km/h zone.

Helsinki police came up with the figure after tax office data showed that Mr Salonoja earned close to £7m in 2002.

If his penalty stands it will beat the previous record of almost 80,000 euros.

That figure (£54,000) was paid in 2000 by Finnish internet millionaire Jaakko Rytsola, when he was caught speeding.

Yet Mr Salonoja could yet get his penalty reduced, as was the case with Nokia executive Anssi Vanjoki.

In 2002, Mr Vanjoki's 116,000 euros fine was reduced by no less than 95% due to his drop in income following a downturn in the mobile phone maker's profits."

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[zootm]

lol, nice.

[Starbucks]

Woah. What a fucked up law.

[marvinbarcelona]

I must say that I agree with the law. What effect would a standard fine have on a millionaire?

[ertmann|CPH]

yeah, there's a hell of a diference between say 100 USD, depending on if you're a student or a multi millionere CEO, why shouldn't the CEO suffer as much as the student?

[zerker]

How does it work though, is it just taken from a percentage of your net worth? It must be well complicated, I'd just stick to a straight cut fine!

[dlinkwit27]

I like this law! btw...anyone know what all that is in USD?

[Abarabusto]

Originally posted by dlinkwit27
I like this law! btw...anyone know what all that is in USD?

Euros are very close to us dollars, at least they were when born. I assume they still are.

I like the idea. Not much overhead since they could just use the last tax return. Don't think there is much chance of it here in the US though.

[Bilbo Baggins]

So does that mean that illegal immigrants caught speeding don't get fined since they are not earning. Oh, they also get let off near enough if they are involved in hit and run incidents too that kill 9 year old kids.

[Abarabusto]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
So does that mean that illegal immigrants caught speeding don't get fined since they are not earning. Oh, they also get let off near enough if they are involved in hit and run incidents too that kill 9 year old kids.

Well ideally they would be deported, But then that would be too damn simple. and it seems nothing can be simple today.

[Smeggle]

exellent at last some Judge has the brains and a Country has a realistic penalty system...Long time coming!

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[ertmann|CPH]

Dlink: 1 USD = 0.78 EUR

as for the question with people without income, there is a minimum amount for all offences, for traffic violations the minimum is 63 Dollars...

[marvinbarcelona]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
So does that mean that illegal immigrants caught speeding don't get fined since they are not earning. Oh, they also get let off near enough if they are involved in hit and run incidents too that kill 9 year old kids.

Its a good job no British citizens do this then, isn't it? Oh, hang on, they do.......and a damn sight more often than one illegal immigrant.

[Abarabusto]

Originally posted by marvinbarcelona
Its a good job no British citizens do this then, isn't it? Oh, hang on, they do.......and a damn sight more often than one illegal immigrant.

Somehow I don't believe he was talking about great britain. In the US we have several states where hispanics (both legal and illegal imigrants and supposedly a minority) outnumber the native born population.

[marvinbarcelona]

Abarabusto, I believe he was, as this has been in the news for a couple of days in the UK.

[Abarabusto]

Originally posted by marvinbarcelona
Abarabusto, I believe he was, as this has been in the news for a couple of days in the UK.

Ok, you are probably right then. I just find it difficult to believe how bad an imigration problem it could have considering it is an island with no third world countries right across the border.

[Merlin]

Bilbo was talking about the UK. An illegal immigrant recently ran over and killed a child, and didn't stop at the scene of the accident because he hadn't any insurance or tax. On top of that, some people and media sources like to tell us that every immigrant is claiming benefit and contributing nothing to the British economy. This leads Bilbo to have a less than favourable impression of all immigrants...

Originally posted by dlinkwit27
I like this law! btw...anyone know what all that is in USD?

What's that there in the thread title?

[Abarabusto]

yea it doesn't take illegal immigrats to do stuff like that. Recently in the US we has a woman hit a guy, who crashed through the front window of her car, ending up on the passenger side of the front seat and floor. So what does she do? Continues to drive home and park in the garage, then just goes inside and left him there moaning until he died.