Bugger - caught by the Swiss!!
Bugger - caught by the Swiss!!
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sshenton1975

Original Poster:

805 posts

250 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Just got a speeding fine through in the post from the Swiss. Was there recently in a German registered hire car and they have tracked me down via the hire car company

Are saying if I don't pay up a criminal investigation will start

Do I just ignore it ( as I donwith Italian fines) or are they more strict!?


davepoth

29,395 posts

228 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Do you intend to go to Switzerland or rent a car with that company again?

superman84

772 posts

194 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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I say ignore it, doubt 'neutral' Switzerland can do FA about it unless you go back there.

StuB

6,695 posts

268 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Your expensive watch will inexplicably stop working and you'll start heating cowbells at night and dream of being eaten by little blue smurfs, or possibly nothing else will happen.

eldar

25,274 posts

225 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Beware of cuckoo clocks.

CambsBill

2,455 posts

207 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Were you over there checking on your bank account? wink

Melvin Udall

73,668 posts

284 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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If you don't pay it, you will be barred from ever buying a Toblerones again. Not worth it. Pay up.

Zed Ed

1,163 posts

212 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Polanski got off, and got off

RedWhiteMonkey

9,119 posts

211 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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How much is the fine? I know it goes against the standard PH answer but you could just pay up.

Hudson

1,857 posts

216 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Based on what ive heard about how the Swiss deal with speeding drivers, if you step foot in their country again, your car will be crushed, your possessions repossessed, your family sent to Siberia to count trees, and you'll be hung drawn and quartered, and the remains loaded into a rocket and fired into the sun.


Long story short, i wouldn't go back.

GuinnessMK

1,608 posts

251 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Mate of mine used to live in Switzerland and picked up a speeding ticket. He left and went to live in France for a few years. When he moved back to Switzerland, the fine arrived in the post.

The Swiss appear to be very good at keeping track of these things.

rallycross

13,752 posts

266 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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2 choices on this

Pay it now and go back any time you want
Don't pay the fine but don't ever go back on your own passport!

bqf

2,289 posts

200 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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Pay the fine - the Swiss never forget....

.......unless you ask them 'where's the looted gold'...

StuB

6,695 posts

268 months

Saturday 5th November 2011
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bqf said:
Pay the fine - the Swiss never forget....

.......unless you ask them 'where's the looted gold'...
rofl