http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10960230   Ouch                                                                                                                                                                             

double ouch !!!!!!!!!!                                                                                                                                                                              

good idea income based fines, or does it just mean that poorer people with vehicles can go mental cos the fine wont be much??                                                                                                                                                                             

Serves to rich burk right hope they crush his car!!!!!!!!                                                                                                                                                                             

F**k that's a lot of cash! Just to think I've nearly done that speed too....hope I never get caught and fined that much! ha-ha!                                                                                                                                                                              

"good idea income based fines, or does it just mean that poorer people with vehicles can go mental cos the fine wont be much?"

IMO (and pretty much by definition) genuinely 'poor' people have very little disposable income which means that even small things that cut into that will mean them having to cut back on something.

OTOH, the more money you have, and the more savings/disposable cash etc. the less speeding fines mean in real terms. Certainly in this country you don't have to be particularly rich for speeding fines in themselves to be virtually irrelevant, and the only real deterrent becomes points/totting up/driving ban - which the well off are often able to weasel out of anyway by getting lawyered up.

The car the guy in the article was driving is in excess of 150 grand new with no options and I'd be willing to bet a pile of cash that I don't have that the fine, large as it might seem to us, won't actually impact on the offenders lifestyle in any meaningful way, even though he will no doubt resent it. Which is kind of the point? Well done the Swiss police/justice system I say.
                                                                                                                                                                             

I agree with war, if he has been given a fine that large it's not gonna hurt him a lot, but boy was I hope it was worth him speeding to wherever he was off to lol                                                                                                                                                                              

I think it would be a great idea too. Get those rich country boys a bigger fine if they decide to break the law. Can you imagine being that rich though where that much cash didn't even make a dent in your life??? Ridiculous. ha-ha