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Finland's Unique Speeding Ticket System

a guy in finland was issued a 58 000 speeding ticket and in finland that is totally reasonable hey i'm jillian on buzz 60. rayma kusla a finished businessman was recently fined 58 grand for going 64 miles an hour in a 50 zone he posted about 12 facebook updates about how maddie was about it but there's no fighting this ticket because in finland speeding tickets are calculated based on your income and since kusla is a millionaire it's a pretty big fine the idea is that everyone should have to suffer the same amount for the same crime according to the wall street journal here's how it's calculated the driver's monthly net income is reduced by 1500 finish marks which is about 235 dollars that number is divided by 60 and the total represents the person's daily disposable income each dependent like a spouse or a child gets 15 marks knocked off but up to 20 marks can be added based on other assets like real estate that final figure is called a day fine which is multiplied by a number between 1 and 120 based on how big the infraction is that's all up to the officer to figure out the highest ticket so far has been 103 000 handed to a nokia executive who made about 14 million that year so yeah maybe just stop speeding but 60. now you know pass it on