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This Takes Some Doing

From the BBC:

“Sao Paolo police who pulled over Armando Clemente da Silva were shocked to discover he had clocked up nearly 1,000 violations, local media report.

Mr da Silva had accumulated the fines for speeding and running red lights over a seven-year period.

The driver, 36, said he had not received any penalty tickets because he had been too busy to register his car.”

The driver, incidentally, owes close to two million dollars. The car is worth about $6500.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 1:51 pm and is filed under Cars, Drivers, Traffic Enforcement. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “This Takes Some Doing”

  1. Paul Says:
    October 1st, 2008 at 8:06 am

    Nearly 1000 violations and close to 2 million dollars in fines. That’s about $2000 per violation. Remind me not to drive in Brazil.

    And why is the BBC using dollars? Either Pounds or Reals would make more sense.

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