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.

Wed, 20 Apr, 2011 - 01:00
Tom Tuite

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.

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