So, this means he is perfect for....a Real Madrid transfer? XD
Trying to think of clubs where it would not be that shocking, but I think even they are not that clueless. Maybe one of the London clubs since someone not having a license wouldn't be that uncommon. ;-P
Why did he never get a driver's license? (I'd have to run the article through machine translation, so I don't know if the article gets into that.)
I am really surprised that he didn't have to show a license with the speeding tickets, unless they were a "caught on camera, mailed a ticket" sort of thing. But really, it seems like *someone* would've noticed before now. I guess he had no car insurance, either?
(In the US, you've got to show your driver's license for a lot of things as a photo id. You'd be pretty SOL without it or a non-driving ID card.)
Idk. He apparently took lessons, just didn't bother to get through with the actual getting the license thing. Idgi either.
From what i've gathered it was indeed the caught on camera, mailed the ticket type things. As for insurance, apparently a license is not needed for that in Germany?
Insurance is tied to the car, not the driver; you could conceivably register a car and have it insured for any person, including someone without a license or not of age.
A note for those wondering at the fine: In Germany, there aren't absolute values for fines giving for real offenses (rather than, say, parking tickets). They're calculated based on a hypothetical daily income. The penalty is a certain number of daily rates, meaning fines are somewhat just according to a person's means. He received 90 days' worth, which is the maximum level for a monetary fine. After that, it's suspended (and later non-suspended) prison sentences. His daily rate therefore works out as 6000 Euro, which comes to 2,190,000 € per year. A person making a normal income might have had to pay a few thousand for the same offense.
This is a remarkably stupid thing to do. Yes, driving education in Germany takes time and costs money, as it's not a DIY thing, but surely at some point he could have gone through with it?
Money can't have been the issue and time - well, if he had spent the time where he was driving around without a license (and getting caught speeding 5 times!!! which means that he was probably almost always going too fast... and without a license... wtf!) in the driving school, he would have his license by now. There's really no excuse at all. The gall alone! Only something that a rich oblivious person would have the nerve to do. Immature, stupid, that doesn't even begin to cover it. And the comments in that tumblr post omg. I know now why I usually only watch football instead of following footballer's lives.
Oh, I really can't understand it either, and I certainly don't excuse it. I could well imagine him being scared to take the test, but then realising he could get around without it and somehow thinking it was OK and he'd never be caught. Quite an adolescent thing to do.
then again, at any point, if he'd wanted to finally get the license, it would've come out he'd been driving without one so maybe that's what he was afraid of?
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Trying to think of clubs where it would not be that shocking, but I think even they are not that clueless. Maybe one of the London clubs since someone not having a license wouldn't be that uncommon. ;-P
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lol let's not make a bad thing even worse :D
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I am really surprised that he didn't have to show a license with the speeding tickets, unless they were a "caught on camera, mailed a ticket" sort of thing. But really, it seems like *someone* would've noticed before now. I guess he had no car insurance, either?
(In the US, you've got to show your driver's license for a lot of things as a photo id. You'd be pretty SOL without it or a non-driving ID card.)
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From what i've gathered it was indeed the caught on camera, mailed the ticket type things. As for insurance, apparently a license is not needed for that in Germany?
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though, how young can someone be to have a car insured for them? 16?
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This is a remarkably stupid thing to do. Yes, driving education in Germany takes time and costs money, as it's not a DIY thing, but surely at some point he could have gone through with it?
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he really is a child, idek :/
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