• spechter@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    You would actually lose your license in germany over such behaviour. You may get it back, but you need to convince a psychologist beforehaned that you’ve got your temper under control.

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        5 months ago

        sadly true, I could see US cops taking the “well you’re both wrong” tact instead of punishing the one who actually broke the laws.

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      5 months ago

      In Germany you can go 122km/h in a 50km/h zone, kill three people while doing so and permanently cripple a fourth one, and still you get your driver’s license back just like that, because you claim that you need a car for work: https://www.tz.de/muenchen/stadt/rentner-fuhr-drei-franzosen-tot-doch-kriegt-fuehrerschein-zurueck-zr-91815963.html

      In the same article it references a guy who tried to escape the police while being high on cocaine and alcohol and killed a 14yo by running him over. He was sentenced for murder, but also got his license back after 5 years.

      You can run a red light in a 40 ton truck and kill a pedestrian right in front of his wife, and you can just keep your driver’s license without restrictions, because “nobody would benefit from putting the truck driver out of work”: https://archive.is/W59hd

      Germany is certainly not a good example for that kind of stuff. Germany is the carbrain capitol of Europe.