Speeding Ticket© Motor1.com
The country bases speeding fines on the person's income, and this is one of the wealthiest people in the country.
No one likes getting a speeding ticket, but we suspect Finnish businessman Anders Wiklöf is smarting after getting his recent citation. The staggering fine was the equivalent of $129,400 (121,000 euros).
Wiklöf was traveling 51 miles per hour (82 kilometers per hour) in a 31-mph (50-kph) zone. He told the Nya Åland newspaper that the road switched from a 44-mph (70-kph) limit down to 31 mph. He claimed he was slowing down, but not before the police caught him speeding.
"I really regret the matter and hope that the money is in any case used for healthcare through the treasury," he said in a...