Re: Not Worthy of a Thread Mk. II

[dostoevsky]

Agreed. The incredible thing however is that he's been fined for speeding on five previous occasions but they never realised he didn't have a driver's license.

[Tomwin Lannister]

Lmaooooooooooooooooo

[Donuts]

come to barca reus, you can carpool with jordi alba and his dad

[rwo power]

Agreed. The incredible thing however is that he's been fined for speeding on five previous occasions but they never realised he didn't have a driver's license.

From what I heard he had a fake Dutch license (no time to check though atm).

The high fine comes from the fact that in Germany some fines are calculated on the daily rate of income (a "Tagessatz"), and he has to pay 90 "Tagessätze".

[Helmer]

my lord how did i miss this goal



Pogba, Evra and Vidal getting destroyed on a single run

Bruno Peres

if he is RB, welcome to Liverpool, we need one Moreno at RB also

[Forza]

Agreed. The incredible thing however is that he's been fined for speeding on five previous occasions but they never realised he didn't have a driver's license.

From what I heard he had a fake Dutch license (no time to check though atm).

The high fine comes from the fact that in Germany some fines are calculated on the daily rate of income (a "Tagessatz"), and he has to pay 90 "Tagessätze".

Interesting. Do you like this system?

[Art Morte]

^ Finland has the same system, that bigger fines are charged according to how much you earn. I think it's a good system as, say, a 100 euro fine doesn't really matter anything to rich people. When the fines are dependent on your earnings, you think twice before risking another speeding ticket.

[Hapless_Hans]

those 'Tagessätze' are not what you get as basic fines, but what you get once you've done something more severe so you're actually judicially sentenced.
I.e, if you drive a little bit too fast and are caught by speed cameras (like Reus obviously was a few times in the last years), you just pay a basic fine, say 60€ if you're 10km/h too fast, 150€ if you're 20 over the limit or something like that.

That's also how he was apparently able to get away with driving without license, you just get the bill sent to you (the registered owner of the car) and if you pay it's done.

I wasn't aware you could actually register a car without a drivers license, but then why wouldn't you.
Also it means that Reus never was very far over the limit, because else he would've received penalty points in a central database to his name on top of the fine, and I guess then they'd realized he has no license, though I'm not even sure of that.

However Reus now was stopped while speeding and then it turned out he was driving without license all this time and during his previous violations.
So now this is a more serious offense, guess it went before some kind of court and that's why he got the 'Tagessätze'.

[Winter is Coming]

Oscar supposedly with his sister and GF



If one of those are his sister I'm seriously worried for the lad

[Robespierre]

my lord how did i miss this goal



Pogba, Evra and Vidal getting destroyed on a single run

Bruno Peres

I rated him highly already before of this goal on Serie A thread
my impressions were right

[dostoevsky]

Agreed. The incredible thing however is that he's been fined for speeding on five previous occasions but they never realised he didn't have a driver's license.

From what I heard he had a fake Dutch license (no time to check though atm).

The high fine comes from the fact that in Germany some fines are calculated on the daily rate of income (a "Tagessatz"), and he has to pay 90 "Tagessätze".

It's a great concept, a fine of a few hundred euros would have been meaningless to Reus.

Also thank you to Hans for the background information.

[futbol]

Lost a lot of respect for Reus after reading that. Not only is he driving without a licence, he was actually caught speeding multiple times. Just wow.

[Hapless_Hans]

LOL you serious?

[futbol]

A 2+ ton vehicle is quite the weapon. I can't even imagine what went through his head when he took a car and drove it out for the first time without any experience whatsoever and no one on the passenger seat who could put on the brakes if necessary. Traffic in Germany is quite dense as well, especially in Nordrhein-Westfalen. I remember my first steps with a car. Even after getting my licence it was still an unusual feeling to judge oncoming traffic and take over other cars on country roads and stuff like that. A lot can go wrong very quickly. The fact that he got several speeding tickets further confirms that he doesn't care too much about his environment.

[Hapless_Hans]

Yes you're right. I'm just asking as I never know when you're serious

from what I read though, he took the lessons but didn't complete the test and then decided to just go on driving, so I don't know wether he'd be necessarily worse at driving than someone who made the test.
And once you're driving, a speeding ticket can happen easily, especially if you're gifted one of those German cars where driving at anything below 180 km/h feels unnatural.
It still is a very stupid and irresponsible thing to do, true.

[MaraVilla]

can alredy picture reus car pooling with alba and his dad everday to camp nou

[Valkyrja]

Alba doesn't have a driving license ?

[futbol]

No, his father drives him to training.

[rwo power]

And in the night from Thursday to Friday, Schalke's Christian Clemens had a bad accident when his car got hit by a gust of wind and pushed into the guide board of the Autobahn. Fortunately he "only" got a shock and a whiplash injury and seemingly no one else got hurt but a couple of other cars by debris. Looks like the Schalke players are driving rather reckless despite having a drivers license (some others crashed their cars, too, recently).

http://www.rp-online.de/sport/fussball/fc-schalke-04/fc-schalke-04-christian-clemens-in-verkehrsunfall-verwickelt-aid-1.4751742

[Art Morte]

And in the night from Thursday to Friday, Schalke's Christian Clemens had a bad accident when his car got hit by a gust of wind and pushed into the guide board of the Autobahn. Fortunately he "only" got a shock and a whiplash injury and seemingly no one else got hurt but a couple of other cars by debris. Looks like the Schalke players are driving rather reckless despite having a drivers license (some others crashed their cars, too, recently).

http://www.rp-online.de/sport/fussball/fc-schalke-04/fc-schalke-04-christian-clemens-in-verkehrsunfall-verwickelt-aid-1.4751742

Di Matteo just demanding that Premier League pace from his players

[rwo power]

I bet the guys in the Premier League would love to drive their super sportscars as fast as the guys here in Germany.

[Art Morte]

At least they could handle the speed

[dostoevsky]

He got into a car accident...with the wind?

Did I miss the news of a hurricane hitting Germany?

[rwo power]

Not a hurricane, but very strong winds where sometimes gusts can get very violent, especially on the part of the Autobahn where Clemens got hit (I happen to know that part pretty well as I drive there rather often).

[dostoevsky]

In that case, continue to drive safely!

Nothing quite beats Banega's car accident though.

[Onyx]

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