Posted
1/09/2010 03:43:00 PM
by Douglas
And from the socialist nightmare that is Europe, people guilty of speeding fined according to their
wealth.A Swiss court has slapped a wealthy speeder with a chalet-sized fine — a full $290,000.
Judges at the cantonal court in St. Gallen, in eastern Switzerland, based the record-breaking fine on the speeder's estimated wealth of over $20 million.
A statement on the court's Web site says the driver — a repeat offender — drove up to 35 miles an hour (57 kilometers an hour) faster than the 50-mile-an-hour (80-kilometer-an-hour) limit.
So does that mean that poor people guilty of crimes get a walk on everything because they can't pay the fine?