{"id":1068,"date":"2010-08-15T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","slug":"vroom-vroom-bork-bork-bork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/vroom-vroom-bork-bork-bork\/","title":{"rendered":"Vroom vroom bork bork bork"},"content":{"rendered":"
In Switzerland, apparently, speeding fines are determined by the speed you were doing and by your ability to pay. So, the Swedish gent who was clocked by Swiss police doing 290km\/h or 180mph in a Mercedes sports car “could be given a world-record speeding fine of SFr1.08m ($1m; \u00a3656,000), prosecutors say<\/a>.”<\/div>\n
This being Switzerland there will be four words for “schadenfreude<\/a>“, one of which is “schadenfreude”.<\/div>\n
And yet …<\/div>\n
This guy is Swedish, which I happen to know means he comes from a land where the average speed limit is 80 or 90km\/h. Occasionally, just occasionally, a really good stretch of road will let you up to 100 and sometimes they go mad and let you do 110 for a stretch of about five miles before welcome sanity kicks in and they rope you back to 80 again.<\/div>\n
For ease of reference, 8km = 5m. Do the maths.<\/div>\n
Approaching a junction, even if you’re in a 110 zone, the limit goes down to 70. And there are a\u00a0lot<\/em>\u00a0of speed cameras. They’re sign-posted but they’re also unobtrusive – just slender little blue poles by the side of the road.<\/div>\n
Not that most Swedes pay the limits the slightest attention, as far as I could see. We were rocking in the slipstream of Saabs and Volvos more times than I could remember. But even so, I do sympathise that this guy has probably wanted to go fast since he was born, and putting him a Merc in another country is just asking for trouble.<\/div>\n
Should have been a fighter pilot, then …<\/div>\n
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