If you speed in Finland, you could get a $200,000 ticket! How?
Both Finland and Denmark do speeding tickets a little differently than we do in America. While we have set fines for every person, theirs are determined by a person’s annual income. The person who ended up breaking the record for the most expensive speeding ticket ever was the 27-year-old heir to a northern European meatpacking empire and had earned around $11.5 million that year alone.
After intricate calculation by Finland’s courts, the fine of $200,000 was deemed appropriate. So what was this ludicrous fine for? You’d assume he was going 50, 60, or maybe even 70 miles over the speed limit, yet strangely he was doing 50 mph in a 25, making the outrageous fine seem even more outrageous!