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Re: [Healeys] CA Listers.

To: <healeys@autox.team.net>, "Len and/or Marge Hartnett"
Subject: Re: [Healeys] CA Listers.
From: "Dallas Congleton" <dcongleton@embarqmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:55:52 -0500
 "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" 
Karl Marx

Sorta the direction we are heading now in the US....

Dallas Congleton
67 BJ8
53 MGTD


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len and/or Marge Hartnett" <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
To: "Healey Mail List" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] CA Listers.


> Bill B. et al:  I do not have anything else to report at this time 
> regarding
> California and speed cameras.  However, there are web sites and blogs out
> there that address this, and other, problems.
>
> I'm sure some of you have heard about this as reported in The Washington
> Post:
>
> "Looking at Anssi Vanjoki's speeding ticket, many Finns are wondering
> whether their egalitarian spirit has pushed them over the edge.
>
> True, Vanjoki was doing 46.5 mph in a 30-mph zone. But $103,000?
>
> The reason the penalty was so harsh is that traffic fines in Finland are
> based not just on the severity of the offense, but also on the offender's
> income. Vanjoki is a senior executive of Nokia, the world's largest
> cell-phone maker, and his fine was assessed on a 1999 income of $5.2
> million.
>
> A court later slashed it to $5,245, but not before Finns flew into a
> rage..... "
>
> (The Other) Len
> Vacaville, CA, USA
> 1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031
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