pumpkin
09-06-2005, 09:15 AM
Subject: [MB] OT: Traffic Fines in Suomi
"Finnish authorities know how much everyone earns, and they pro-rate traffic
fines depending on the wealth of the malefactor. Last year, the 27-year-old
heir to a local sausage fortune was fined 170,000 euros, about $204,000 at the
time of the fine, for driving at 50 miles an hour in a 25-mph zone in downtown
Helsinki"
from http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0829-24.htm
"Finnish authorities know how much everyone earns, and they pro-rate traffic
fines depending on the wealth of the malefactor. Last year, the 27-year-old
heir to a local sausage fortune was fined 170,000 euros, about $204,000 at the
time of the fine, for driving at 50 miles an hour in a 25-mph zone in downtown
Helsinki"
from http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0829-24.htm