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Komarov in deep do-do with the law in Finland

I am optimistic as we are now at the bottom of an arc and will progress over the next years to being a competitive team. If we lose more than we win so be it at the start, but go down with fight, not the listless losers that we were at the end of last year.
 
Didn't he also lie to police to avoid paying a large fine.  I'm pretty sure that would constitute a breach.

(Not advocating that we exercise the ability to terminate his contract)
 
What would you do if your answer between paying 100 bucks for a speeding ticket as a dustbin man and paying 70,000 Euros as a hockey player.
I would have to say I would have a Pinnochio nose.
 
Highlander said:
What would you do if your answer between paying 100 bucks for a speeding ticket as a dustbin man and paying 70,000 Euros as a hockey player.
I would have to say I would have a Pinnochio nose.
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Well seeing as how that information would likely be double-checked within minutes I probably wouldn't lie to a police officer about it.
 
Perhaps the system check just started up, sometimes it takes time to impliment protocols just like the the border check between US and Canada. Up till just recently the US had no idea how long you spend in the US. Now they do
 
Highlander said:
Perhaps the system check just started up, sometimes it takes time to impliment protocols just like the the border check between US and Canada. Up till just recently the US had no idea how long you spend in the US. Now they do
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I have to assume that when they started up the whole "your ticket reflects your income" system that they put in measures to, you know, actually make sure it works.
 
In the case of the US, for those of us that spend a lot of time there, was that you could spend up to 6 months less a day per year. This is true, but if you spend three years in a row doing this you where in jeopardy of becoming an alien resident subject to US Taxes. The formula for this actually takes down the time you spend down to 120 days a year. However if you file an 8840 then this helps explain to the US Tax people that your main connection is to Canada and removes you from being looked at for taxes. This law has been in place for years and years.
However it is just this past July that the goverments shared information on your boarder crossing (by car), so in fact the US Goverment up until this year had no clue how long you where in their country.  Now they know, so you better file the 8840 if you are spending significant time in the US.
Now it seems to me a lot of laws are implimented without the technological controls to back them up at the time of implementation.  Such I believe was the case in Finland with computer systems to provide roadside verification of income. Thus poor Komrade K was busted for saying he was a sweeper or some such nonsense, but was busted on the new technology.
 
Is it too late to observe that it's "doo-doo", not "do-do"...?  I don't think Komarov is deep in an extinct flightless bird with a superfluous hyphen.
 
Scandinavia isn't like the United States. When you establish a largely socialist government that works, you tend not to run it according to the standards of the least efficient government in the world.
 
Nik I read that the system had been implimented but was followed by in car verification later in the process, so in fact folks could have gotten away with a lie (if they had the guts to do so) before the in-car income verifications system was available. Whether this was a period of years, weeks or days I don't know.
 
Heroic Shrimp said:
Is it too late to observe that it's "doo-doo", not "do-do"...?  I don't think Komarov is deep in an extinct flightless bird with a superfluous hyphen.
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I would've gone with "Komrade Komarov in deep kaka with the fuzz in Finland"
 
Highlander said:
Nik I read that the system had been implimented but was followed by in car verification later in the process, so in fact folks could have gotten away with a lie (if they had the guts to do so) before the in-car income verifications system was available. Whether this was a period of years, weeks or days I don't know.
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The changes to the system were made 16 years ago:

And so, in October 1999, the Finnish government made some major changes, including basing fines on net income. But the biggest change was this: Using cellular phones, the police can now tap into official tax records, which in Finland are open to the public, and learn within seconds a driver's reported income and the corresponding traffic fine.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB978398058976592586
 
Highlander said:
What would you do if your answer between paying 100 bucks for a speeding ticket as a dustbin man and paying 70,000 Euros as a hockey player.
I would have to say I would have a Pinnochio nose.
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He still lied.  whether he thought he could get away with it or not doesn't change that.
 
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