Edit Collins dictionary says Middle Ages is 40 to 60, so welcome to the club Corbets
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...ish/middle-age
The Telegraph says 35 to 58 so I will shortly be leaving the club
You put a smiley, fmf. Looking forward to old age, then?
I really hope that the "via sicura" laws will be modified very soon. Many law-makers too now think that these laws are a bit too stricts.
When I first moved to Zurich (from Lugano) I was driving at an average of a speeding ticket per week. Luckily all very small fines. Now it's probably two or three peer year.
Suck it up and consider it a life lesson, as bitter as it may sound.
And I got many more in the US than here.
Tom
If so, seems "via sicura" is working as intended.
I was caught going 80km in a 50 km zone about 6 years ago. A month after the camera flash, the police showed up at my door on a Sunday evening at 8pm. The car is in my husband's name, but I knew right away why they were there. I told them immediately that it was me - I was the driver and gave them my name and info. I invited them in, we sat at the kitchen table and talked. At first, they were stiff and formal and unfriendly. After a few minutes (in a mix of English and German), things were better and we left on good terms. It was a great shock that the police would come to my home for a speeding ticket, but that is how we learn I guess. They also charged me an additional 250francs for their visit. The whole ticket cost me 800 francs. An expensive learning experience! But I will never zone out and speed up during a good song again!!
Just go in and talk to them. They are human beings. They will be professional as you should be too. Do what they tell you, and move on.
The only difference I see, I put o lot more money into the government pockets. Yes, that's the difference I see after moving here. And like me, many other people. Like putting a radar twenty meters after a speed limit change from 60 to 50 km/h you are trying to say it's purely done for safety reasons....... yeah....sure
Or check this out (sorry only in italian)...now you tell me this is normal ? https://www.facebook.com/tuto.rossi/...17356532441966
To me this is just taking advantage of people who have their shoulders against the wall.
And to the people who say "well if you didn't speed or drink you wouldn't have to deal with it". It's like saying it's ok to cut one's hand because they stole something like they did (or still do?) in some parts of the world ?
This thread continues to be worth its weight in gold.
I am enjoying skiing till April, enjoy your life too
There are no speed cameras 20m after a speed limit change. There is no entrapment.
You just can’t drive properly.
When you live in a country, you follow the laws of that country. It is well-known that excessive speeding is considered to be worse than, e.g. tax evasion in Switzerland. Meanwhile, being a little too creative on your tax form can have you ending up in jail in Germany, since they do not differentiate between tax evasion and tax fraud in terms of legal repercussions. Which of the two behaviours is more likely to cause grave injury to third parties? Exactly.
One of my family members managed to go on the wrong side of the motorway a few years ago and got stopped by the police. Nobody was injured. She still lost her license and will not be getting it back - ever. She insists to this day that it is a simple mistake, that nothing happened so it did not matter, etc. She also maintains that the country where she is originally from would not treat her this way and that she would simply use her license from that country. We have made sure that she has no access to this license anymore, as it has since become apparent that she has dementia.
So when you break the law in a country with a fair and functioning legal system (most of the time, I'm sure someone will pipe up with some huge travesty), just accept the punishment, it is happening because you considered yourself above the law that is essentially there to protect you and others. Simple as that.
Surely that is a clear sign who the idiot is?
One more example of unproportional severity, to lose a license forever for a mistake that didn't cause anything. But having health problems as dementia is a reason to stop driving.
*face palm* you are either one of those in the law enforcement or one of those brainwashed lunatics that think government=god and every law it erects is the truth in the last instance, for your information I am not a robot and I didn't consider myself above any laws, there was a situation after a long day of work that caused my reaction (which I admit was a mistake) and lead to unproportional acceleration. And now the difference between me being a criminal or not is the difference between straight autobahn with limit 100 or straight autobahn with limit 120, and since you believe the police puts this traps and changing limits (I can bet you work for this police) for your safety, please, relieve me from your further comments.