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I now understand why everyone here speeds
We drove down to Singapore in H's company car last weekend. I drove back up to KL on Sunday, and when H got to work on Tuesday there were two speeding tickets waiting for him from my return trip in his car. I haven't had a speeding ticket since I was 18 because with the exception of last Sunday I don't speed.
At first I felt pretty crappy about it. Then I realized a couple things: 1) The two tickets together were less than $100 USD even though I was going quite a bit over the limit and 2) the tickets are in no way connected to my or H's license. Aside from becoming the butt of what I'm sure was several jokes in H's office this week, there really aren't any repercussions for me for speeding and the whole thing is treated like a governmental fundraiser here.
I almost wish it was more severe so I'd have incentive to slow down.
Re: I now understand why everyone here speeds
What happens if you don't pay them?
It sounds like speeding tickets there are kinda like parking tickets here maybe. You can pretty much get as many as you want, and as long as you pay them, it really doesn't matter.
I'm impressed the company lets you drive the company car.
Montana used to have $5 speeding tickets and you could pay the cop on the spot. DH's college roommate kept a stack of $5 bills above his visor for that reason.
But if it were an individual who failed to pay, would they get booted/towed/something like that eventually? Just curious what they do to follow up on these tickets.
And lol about the Montana tickets! There was a time when MT didn't even have a speed limit on many of its highways. When I lived there 10 years ago it was 75 on the interstate and people regularly did 90-100 without consequence.
Well in Switzerland... one of the ways they catch you if you don't pay your tickets is to put a hold on your passport. So when you check into a Swiss Hotel with your passport it alerts the check-in staff to call the police. They give you your key card and then later they lock you out and have the police come pick you up. DH had to do that a few times at the hotel he worked at in Zurich.
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