Motorist refuses to pay fine in gesture of ‘civil disobedience’

A MAN who refused to pay a speeding fine in what he called “a gesture of civil disobedience” against a state he believed was acting as “a slush fund to pay gangster bankers” has escaped censure for his act of defiance.

Des Nix, aged 62, of Foxfield, Raheny, Dublin, refused to pay the €80 speeding fine.

He received the fixed penalty fine for allegedly driving at 63km/h in a 50km/h zone at Tonlegee Road in north Dublin on October 28 last.