Speeding for 42 days in a row cost an Austrian baker fines amounting to two months of wages after he repeatedly rushed down the same road on his way home from work at 3 a.m., BBC News reported.
Heimo Wallner said he had no idea that the speed limit on the stretch of road was 30 km/h (18.5 mph), so he continued to drive the standard 50 km/h (31 mph) and ended up with around $3,480 in speeding fines once the traffic camera citations caught up to him.
Of at least 50 trips made in the past few months, he was recorded driving at a consistent 31 mph 42 times in a row.
The stretch of road lies between Wallner's work in Klagenfurt and home in the southern region of Carinthia, and since he was traveling while it was dark, he did not notice the speed camera, BBC News reported.
Wallner started his job in February and received his first speeding notice in May, at which point he realized there would be many more to come "and it would get expensive."
Wallner decided not to appeal as it would require too much time and effort, so he paid the fines and sacrificed his holiday in Greece as well as two months' wages, The Daily Mail reported.
"You cannot lodge an appeal against all the fines in one go, so I would have had to make 42 separate challenges," he said. ""These are a good two months' wages for me, and there's no rebate for a bulk fine either."
On the opposite end of the scale, motorists in Virginia are being fined for driving too slowly.
Since the state implemented a law setting penalties for driving too slowly in the left lane of a highway, thousands of drivers have had to cough up $100 fines.
WTOP-FM, which obtained data on the citations through a public records request, reported that from July 1, 2017, through April 3, more than 16,000 people were cited under various portions of the law.
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