A Speeding Ticket to Avoid

Speeding tickets are meant to financially penalize the offender. So, as the Associated Press reports, some European countries are raising ticket fines in proportion to the incomes of their wealthiest speeders. After all, a mere $100 fine is hardly worth slowing down for. A Swiss court recently fined a well known multimillionaire “traffic thug” $290,000 for speeding. [%comments]