Putting the pedal to the metal in St. Gallen, Switzerland is not tolerated. A court there gave a clueless multi-millionaire a traffic fine of $290,000 for speeding through a village. “The accused ignored elementary traffic rules with a powerful vehicle out of a pure desire for speed,” the court said in its judgment of the motorist, who clocked speeds of up to 137 km per hour on country roads.
The fine beats out the last record of 110,000 Swiss francs in 2008 racked up by a Porsche driver in Zurich who piled up a string of traffic offenses.