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The speed camera lottery in Stockholm, Sweden. Drive at or under the speed limit and you'll be entered into a lottery where the prize fund comes from the fines that speeders pay. Average speed reduced from 32km/h to 25km/h (a reduction of 22%)

Marriott was fined $600,000 by the FCC in 2014 for blocking customers' personal Wi-Fi so customers were forced to pay for internet.

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  1. Kirsty MacColl, vocalist and female singer in "Fairytale of New York", died saving her son from an oncoming powerboat owned by a multimillionaire while vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico. The boat's driver escaped jail time by paying a fine of $90USD.

  2. In the Ancient Greek Olympics, competitors found cheating were fined. The money would pay for a statue of Zeus with a plaque shaming the offender, and placed on the road to the stadium.

  3. Dwight D. Eisenhower said "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants...It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."

  4. France tried stop Amazon offer free shipping to its customers by fining them €1,000 per day. Amazon continued to pay the fines instead of ending its policy of offering free shipping. After law was created banning free shipping, Amazon effectively snubbed it by charging one cent for delivery.

  5. Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for voting. She responded, "I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty", and never did.

  6. Police in west Germany located a man who had a warrant for unpaid fines. They confronted him just as his slot machine struck a jackpot, and he avoided jail time by paying his fine on the spot.

  7. In May 1830, four men armed with scissors and razors attacked a man in an attempt to shave his beard. The man fended off and wounded his attackers using a jackknife but was charged with “unprovoked assault” and spent more than a year in jail for refusing to pay a $10 fine.

  8. ABC aired Saving Private Ryan on Veteran's day, unedited, every year starting in 2001. The practice ended in 2004 (the year of Nipplegate), when nearly 30% of ABC affiliate stations declined the broadcast, even after The Walt Disney Company offered to pay all FCC fines for language.

  9. The community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual "Food for Fines" program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy

  10. The first time a top hat was worn in public, it caused a riot. According to reports, people booed, dogs barked, women fainted, and a small boy suffered a broken arm. The man charged with breaching the peace and ordered to pay a £50 fine.

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Pieces of Skylab were scattered around a part of Western Australia after its reentry into Earth. As a joke, the local government then fined NASA $400 for littering. It went unpaid for 30 years until a Californian DJ raised funds to pay the fine.

Purdue Pharma made Oxycontin a blockbuster drug by marketing it as resistant to abuse and safe to widely prescribe. After paying hundreds of millions in fines for false marketing, the family that owns 100% of the company is now worth at least $14 billion - source

Ulysses S. Grant was pulled over for riding his horse and buggy too quickly. Realizing it was the president the officer apologized and offered to ignore the infraction, but Grant replied "I was speeding, you caught me and I'll pay the ticket." He was fined $5, which would have been $91 today. - source

In Iceland, criminals are put on a waiting list to serve their time in prison because there aren't enough available jail cells. Many people who are on this list pay fines or do community service as an alternative to prison.

After being ordered by court to pay $3.6M in fines, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (Pirate Bay Co-Founder) wrote them an 'IOU' - source

Toyota had to pay $1.2 billion fine for safety negligence with unintended acceleration issues, despite a NASA report showing the issues were due to driver error.

In 2018 the Sagrada Familia Church agreed to pay Barcelona $41M as fine for lacking a building permit for 136 Years

Philadelphia's mayors were initially unpaid, and often strongly objected to being selected - sometimes opting to pay a large fine rather than serve.

A Texas High School Senior was Fined $637 for Cursing At School - She said "shit", when she was unable to pay the fine a warrant was issued for her arrest.

In Stockholm, they have a lottery where good drivers can win the money bad drivers pay in fines

There is EU law which mandates that all cellphones have the same charging port. Apple just ignores it anyway because paying the fine is the cheapest option for them

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In China, if you hit someone with your car you pay for their medical care. Killing someone, however, is a one time fine. For that reason, people have gone back to kill someone they accidentally hit.

In 1807 the British Navy put together the West Africa Squadron. Slaver hunters that chased down any slaver ships they could find crossing the Atlantic, and fining them up to £100 per slave on board. Slavers would often throw slaves overboard to avoid paying.

A man was arrested on a warrant in 2016 for not returning a copy of the movie “Freddy Got Fingered”. Tom Green agreed to pay his fines if they were not an “outrageous sum”

In Finland, speeding fines are linked to salary. The Finns run a “day fine” system that is calculated on the basis of an offender’s daily disposable income – generally their daily salary divided by two. In 2002, Anssi Vanjoki, a former Nokia director, was ordered to pay a fine of US $103,600

A man in Charlotte, North Carolina spent $1,200 to convert his diesel car to run on vegetable oil. He was fined $1,000 by the state for not paying gasoline taxes, and told he would need to post a $2,500 bond before using the oil

A daycare in Israel had an issue of parents picking kids up late and decided to start punishing the parents by making them pay a fine. Surprisingly, the opposite effect occured and more parents started leaving there kids at the daycare and picking them up late.

President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested while in office. He was charged, booked, and released for speeding (on a horse) and had to pay a fine.

You don't have to pay parking fines from private companies, only from local authorities and councils. They may look like fines, but they are just cleverly disguised invoices.

In December 2002 a 60-year-old mechanic was fined for failing to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency that he’d removed his motorcycle from the road. He refused to pay and claimed that he had the right by medieval law to choose a trial by combat with a "champion" nominated by the DVLA

In 2013 a motorist argued that driving with corporation papers in his front seat allowed him the right to drive in a carpool lane. He ended up paying a $478 fine.

I learned that due to a legal loophole, corporations in America can claim their corporate fines for wrongdoing as tax deductions, meaning the taxpayer pays for their misdeeds not the corporations.

Income based speeding tickets. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia CEO, ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros ($103,600) going 45mph in a 30mph zone on his Harley

Country Time is offering to pay All Lemonade Stand Fines / Permits

During a school project, two girls discovered that Ribena had been lying about its vitamin C content. They took the parent company to court, who was then forced to pay $1.7m in fines.

In 1872 Susan b Anthony was arrested for illegally voting. She was charged a fine of 100$ for which she refused to pay and never did.

There's a soccer team in Portugal that no one wants to play against because of the vicious way they play the game, their oponents would rather skip the match and pay a fine.

A young woman caught making explicit videos of herself at a public library had to pay a $250 fine and was banned for a year. She earned $1,500 for the 3 1/2 hour video she live-streamed at the library

Murderers in medieval Ireland were given to the deceased's family as slaves if they failed to pay a hefty fine to buy their freedom. The family could then legally kill the murderer themselves, sell him into slavery, or await payment

All Japanese households with at least one TV are supposed to pay a fee for broadcasting. But there is no authority to impose sanctions or fines in the event of non-payment; people may (and many do) throw away the bills and turn away the occasional bill collector, without consequence.

In 2014, an indigenous Kenyan cow herder registered to attend a U.N. biodiversity conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea accidently flew to Pyongyang, North Korea instead, where he was detained for several hours for not having a visa, and was only allowed to leave after paying a $500 fine.

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