<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80695497-8a9f-4deb-9c37-20ab2cbb462c/D8003BD8-07FB-4F97-B57C-A0E97D5D33C2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland" href="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland" style="font-size: 11px;">matadortravel.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><H4 class="post-title">Note to Self: Don't Speed in Finland</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><DIV class="post-links primary-links">By <A class="username" title="View J. Wire's profile." href="http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/j-wire">J. Wire</A>  |  Location: <A href="http://matadortravel.com/destinations/finland">Finland</A>  |  <SPAN class="cat-color">06/20/09</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><P>I just found out that in Finland, speeding tickets aren't a fixed rate.  They're based on income.  Check out some of these horror stories:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A sausage heir going 50 in a 25mph zone holds the record for steepest fine, at $204,000.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Same Jaako Rytsola, same BMW, same year, and other $44,100 ticket, bringing the year's fines to $115,500.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A newly wealthy man got fined $14,500 for speeding and argued it down to $9,000; but when the judge discovered he'd paid only $750 a pop for previous infractions, he turned punitive and tacked on another $38,000.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A young dot-com entrepreneur, Jaako Rytsola, had to shell out $71,400 for driving his Beamer 18mph over the limit.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">In 2002, a Nokia exec on a Harley got hit with a whopping $103,600 fine for cruising at 47mph in a 31mph zone.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://matadortravel.com/travel-blog/finland/j-wire/note-to-self-dont-speed-in-finland"><P>Also: Donald Duck is banned in Finland as a children's show, because he doesn't wear pants.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8003BD8-07FB-4F97-B57C-A0E97D5D33C2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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