Finnish Man Nearly Finished with Country After $60K Speeding Ticket
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plusphoto/amanaimagesRF/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A wealthy Finn is fed up with his country after being slapped with a speeding ticket that topped a hundred thousand dollars.
According to the local publication Italehti, Finland’s speeding fines are linked to the wealth of the offender, and thanks to businessman Reima Kuisla’s 2013 salary of over four million bucks, his ticket for doing 64 miles an hour in a 50 mile per hour zone will cost him 54,000 Euros, or the equivalent of more than 58,600 U.S. dollars.
Kuisla took to Facebook to complain about the fine, saying, “I would have thought ten years ago that I should seriously consider moving abroad. Finland is an impossible country…for certain kinds of people with large incomes…”
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