That'll be 10% of your annual income please

How about we crush the culprit's car? That'd put a halt to his shenanigans for a while - especially if he's poor. But then that's not fair on the poor guy because the rich one will just go out and buy another. I guess that's life. Not fair!

I take your point but the percentage is the same and the pain proportionate therefore. Equally why should someone who regards £600 as loose change get away with £60. Surely it's a punishment and a deterrent not to re-offend.

well the financial penalties won't make anybody think twice when I have in my younger days been caught speeding when I didn't earn a lot of money and got 60 quid fine did it put me off doing it again nope lol, the financial implications are irrelevant 10% of anybodies wage no matter if you are rich or poor is not the issue. If you go over the speed limit by a certain degree then you should be banned from driving that will be more a punishment than a financial one. Plus the speeding fines only go into the police pot they don't help the nhs schools or hospitals they just go towards more speed camera's and pay the chief constables wage lol, So guess we have to agree to dis-agree and its taxing the rich and punishing the rich if thats the case theres no point in anybody working hard and succeeding if they are just going to get hammered. Happy mylotting,

Now that is a good idea. He loved his cars and it might have deterred him. There again he might just have gone out and bought a new one. Even loss of licence does not deter some people. I am shocked at the number of people who continue to drive after their licence has been taken off them. They just don't care. Going to prison is the only thing that will stop them from driving.

I rather like the idea of crushing the car for reckless speeding. That would be a serious deterrent. It would take the Malays or Singaporeans to do it though. Every other country is terrified of upsetting somebody!

I think that he did get the Swiss equivalent of points on his licence Gabs. But the fine was the headline! XXXX

But it could be applied to other offences LoLo. No One is above the law though. That was enshrined as far back as Magna Carta (1215). XXXX

I rather like it as a concept too. But then I don't have an income! LOL.

I'm going to put go faster stripes on my donkey! LOL.

yes thea maybe next time the rich idiot will slow down. he he he.

That can sometimes be the case Nanna. I think that is an idea that ought to be adopted here.

And the law encourages them to think that way by going easy on them by comparison to a poorer person.

I like it as a concept too.

Dawn in California. Sounds like an album title. The Beagles perhaps. LOL.

Dawn, go away, I'm no good for you.

Yes she is. I get a peas full eezy feeling groovy.

The US medical system, which I pay into Opal as I have to cover my daughter, is most complex and unfair. If you qualify it's amongst the best in the world, but if you aren't eligible then you can die on the street. Personally I think that it should be free at the point of delivery, paying for it should be the least of the sick person's problems. You never know, you might have a fairer system soon. But it sure as heck isn't going to please everybody.

and space for one large Englishman in the boot (trunk). I have been to Switzerland many times. Now they do chocolate very seriously there.

Swiss chocolate is awesome. We'll have to eat the last of the cookies before leaving, and you might have to sit in the cabin when the trunk (boot) is filled with chocolate on the return trip. Might have to rent a trailer to pull behind the car too.

Especially for those with more money than care!

My aunt was run over and killed by someone nine years ago. He got 3 points on his licence and £130 fine. He had children and needed to get them to school in his car. Justice they say......

That's sick... I'm sorry to hear about your aunt. It does appear that the law is very much on the side of the motorist, regardless of the offence. I do wish they would impose serious penalties. On the other hand - my Mum (yes, my Mum) was caught "speeding" at 82 mph on an empty motorway in an old four speed Fiat Uno (yes, a Fiat Uno) that I swear had a top speed of 75 mph... Three points on the (clean) licence and an £80 fine. It's ridiculous.

I guess that the point is that we don't learn unless we are hit hard where it hurts. Of course if we were just generally more law abiding - and most of us are - then there wouldn't be a need for such ideas.

I am afraid that has always been the case. One law for them and another for us....

I think that it's a fair system Hatley. Actually much about how Switzerland works I find appealing.

It seems a fair arrangement to me Tamara. XXXX

I think that there is a minimum fine that must be paid. I can't see the Swiss allowing anyone to escape.

I don't mind people having wealth, it's when they use that wealth to avoid the things that everybody else suffers that annoys me.