Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2011 13:59:48 GMT -5
Iran
- If you want to drive there read this:
You might want to buy a car with a speed warning buzzer if you ever drive in Iran. From May 2008, police have had the power to send speeders to jail for up to a year, or alternatively give them 74 lashes. Iran has also introduced tough 'anti-immodesty' laws which mean that cars can be confiscated from offending drivers. 2905 cars have so far been confiscated by police, including 1554 for playing loud music, 423 for carrying improperly covered female drivers and 55 for carrying pets.
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Netherlands
If you're going over twice the speed limit in Holland, the authorities have the power to confiscate your car - permanently. In the most extreme case so far, in 2010, a 20-year old man was caught doing 100mph in a 50mph zone. The police impounded his car. Trouble was, the car he was driving belonged to his father, Michel Perridon - and it was a Bugatti Veyron worth over £1 million. That makes it easily the most expensive speeding ticket in history.
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Kansas, USA
Be careful if your car doesn't have traction control if you're in Derby, Kansas. The simple act of screeching your tyres could cost you 30 days in jail.
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Georgia, USA
The state of Georgia has the toughest speeding ticket laws in the USA. Even for a first-time offence, you can be fined up to $1,000 and sent to jail for 12 months.
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Finland
In Finland, speeding fines are calculated according to your annual income. In 2002, Jussi Salonoja, a 27-year-old meatpacking business heir earning over £7.5 million per annum, got a speeding ticket of £130,000. Ouch.
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North Korea
Everyone's favourite madcap despot Kim Jong Il has decreed that it's now illegal for women to ride bicycles. Since almost no-one in North Korea owns a car, bicycles are just about the only way to get about. Enforcement is reportedly patchy but women are still routinely fined for the clearly sinful act of cycling.
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Switzerland
Seems wealthy drivers in Switzerland were not being deterred by existing fines, so the government passed a new law that punishes you according to your net worth. For example, a well-heeled diplomat from Guinea-Bissau was caught driving his Ferrari at 85mph in 2010, resulting in a fine of £190,000. That was topped later in 2010 by a 37-year-old Swedish man caught travelling at 180mph in his Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. He tried to claim his speedometer was faulty but that got a predictable reception in court: he was handed a million-dollar (£650,000) fine. Oh, and they kept his SLS.
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Russia
When Russian diplomat Andrei Knyazev, on secondment in Ottawa, Canada, killed a pedestrian and seriously injured another in 2001, he claimed diplomatic immunity. He was expelled from Canada on the understanding that Russian authorities would prosecute him on home soil. Maybe he should have thought twice about claiming immunity: four years in a Siberian hard labour camp was a much worse penalty than he'd have got in Canada.
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Plenty more where that came from
Regards.
Prashna
- If you want to drive there read this:
You might want to buy a car with a speed warning buzzer if you ever drive in Iran. From May 2008, police have had the power to send speeders to jail for up to a year, or alternatively give them 74 lashes. Iran has also introduced tough 'anti-immodesty' laws which mean that cars can be confiscated from offending drivers. 2905 cars have so far been confiscated by police, including 1554 for playing loud music, 423 for carrying improperly covered female drivers and 55 for carrying pets.
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Netherlands
If you're going over twice the speed limit in Holland, the authorities have the power to confiscate your car - permanently. In the most extreme case so far, in 2010, a 20-year old man was caught doing 100mph in a 50mph zone. The police impounded his car. Trouble was, the car he was driving belonged to his father, Michel Perridon - and it was a Bugatti Veyron worth over £1 million. That makes it easily the most expensive speeding ticket in history.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kansas, USA
Be careful if your car doesn't have traction control if you're in Derby, Kansas. The simple act of screeching your tyres could cost you 30 days in jail.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Georgia, USA
The state of Georgia has the toughest speeding ticket laws in the USA. Even for a first-time offence, you can be fined up to $1,000 and sent to jail for 12 months.
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Finland
In Finland, speeding fines are calculated according to your annual income. In 2002, Jussi Salonoja, a 27-year-old meatpacking business heir earning over £7.5 million per annum, got a speeding ticket of £130,000. Ouch.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
North Korea
Everyone's favourite madcap despot Kim Jong Il has decreed that it's now illegal for women to ride bicycles. Since almost no-one in North Korea owns a car, bicycles are just about the only way to get about. Enforcement is reportedly patchy but women are still routinely fined for the clearly sinful act of cycling.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Switzerland
Seems wealthy drivers in Switzerland were not being deterred by existing fines, so the government passed a new law that punishes you according to your net worth. For example, a well-heeled diplomat from Guinea-Bissau was caught driving his Ferrari at 85mph in 2010, resulting in a fine of £190,000. That was topped later in 2010 by a 37-year-old Swedish man caught travelling at 180mph in his Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. He tried to claim his speedometer was faulty but that got a predictable reception in court: he was handed a million-dollar (£650,000) fine. Oh, and they kept his SLS.
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Russia
When Russian diplomat Andrei Knyazev, on secondment in Ottawa, Canada, killed a pedestrian and seriously injured another in 2001, he claimed diplomatic immunity. He was expelled from Canada on the understanding that Russian authorities would prosecute him on home soil. Maybe he should have thought twice about claiming immunity: four years in a Siberian hard labour camp was a much worse penalty than he'd have got in Canada.
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Plenty more where that came from
Regards.
Prashna
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