This has to be urban legend, but . . .
Years ago, one of my co-workers insisted he read that one of the
Scandinavian countries had such a problem with drunk drivers causing fatal
accidents that a zero tolerance policy was enacted. Supposedly, some guy
violated a couple times and was given the death penalty which was carried
out by electrocution, broadcast on TV.
Since the Internet didn't even exist when I heard this, I had no way of
verifying the story. ;o) This thread reminded me of it.
ScottGee1
On 6/23/05, Roger Key <rogerdkey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> If you think that your fines are a bit high, try reading this:
>
> http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/4813.html
>
> Roger Key, Copenhagen
>
> >From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> >To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [OM] Re: Cell phones/Italy, as far OT as possible
> >Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:09:12 +0100
> >
> >
> >As a Brit living a few km from Leuven I can't decide which is worse. At
> >least Belgium doesn't have points on the licence yet so it's just the
> >150-odd euros that hurt when you find that envelope in the mailbox (for
> >doing 10-20km/h above the limit - it's gets progressively more
> expensive).
> >
> >Aside: when I asked MS Money to propose a budget for me this year, it
> took
> >all the signioficant costs from last year and allocated them across the
> >next 12 months. There was a regular scheduled transaction "Speeding
> >Tickets"...
> >
> >br
> >Jez
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Peter Leyssens" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [OM] Re: Cell phones/Italy, as far OT as possible
> >Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:42:35 +0200
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Just be grateful you don't live in the UK. Thanks to our
> > > > revenue-obsessed government, this little island harbours 70% of the
> > > > world's speed cameras. And as a result deaths on the roads are
> > > > increasing.
> > >
> > > I'll give you a story of Leuven, the city where I live, which should
> > > provide all French list members with yet another true joke about
> >Belgians.
> > >
> > > The first idea was to get most traffic out of the city centre, onto
> the
> > > ring road around it. Lots of streets were converted to one way or
> > > pedestrian only, pedestrian right of way and speed limits were
> severely
> > > enforced. The city is quite small, so just heading for the ring road
> > > and driving half a tour isn't too much of a hassle.
> > >
> > > Obviously, a couple of years later, people were complaining about
> > > speeding on the ring road. So, a battery of speed cameras were
> > > installed. Result ? Everybody's back in the city with their cars !
> > >
> > > I wish they would just make up their mind. Like that one-way street
> > > they just switched to be in the other direction. Then, the parallel
> > > street had to be redone, so now the one-way street is reverted again.
> > > Reminds me of that story I once read in French of a roundabout with
> only
> > > one way streets leading towards it. ("But, but ! If I get sick ?" --
> > > "You see ? There's the ambulance driving around. And if it gets worse,
> > > there's the funeral services too !")
> > >
> > >
> > > Peter.
> > >
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