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[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

Marco Reus fined 540,000 euros for driving without a license for 3 years





source : bild article sadly behind paywall but posted in a tumblr post


e: apparently he also received five speeding tickets during that time, but no-one ever noticed he didn't have a license o_O

e2: someone from reddit translated a quote from the man himself:

He took driving lessons when he was 18 but never took a driving test. He just decided to drive without a licence. "Sadly I decided to take this route. I can't even comprehend the reasons myself. Now I know: I was too naive and it was stupid. I have learnt my lesson. It will never happen again."

e3: can't believe it took me so long to remember his nickname is Rolls Reus.



yeah. i am disappoint :/

Comments

[mundodeamor.livejournal.com]

I thought you meant his licence expired, but wow, he never got it in the first place? Wtf ...

[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

Apparently he took lessons but never bothered to test. This idiot..

[eva]

German licenses don't expire, unless you get them taken away for driving offenses. You really only have to go through with them once.

[ms-geekette.livejournal.com]

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.)

[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

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?

[itsacoco.livejournal.com]

[lisse-pitch13.livejournal.com]

LMAO

[eva]

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?

[kaiserschmarrn.livejournal.com]

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.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

Oh, you stupid Chicken. He deserves it completely.

[mrscrapbag.livejournal.com]

i don't mean to offend any reus fans here but for some reason i'm not really shocked with the fact that he "didn't bother" to get a license. i always got the impression that he is kinda dense. lol

it's just strange that he wasn't caught

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

They have various checks in England. For instance, it's a criminal offence to drive a car sans licence. I'm glad he got a huge fine.

[fruitymangoes.livejournal.com]

At least he never got into any accidents???

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's what I was thinking too. That's more than some people with a licence can say.
But that's about the only positive thing in this story

[ndobler.livejournal.com]

oh the hubris
stupid fucker

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

How stupid can you be? How come nobody ever noticed? Like his parents or something?

[connorblond.livejournal.com]

I never thought he was the brightest bulb on the planet tbh.

In a way this doesn't surprise me at all --- although it also does.

IDGAF about this shit, #badboy4life

[jesscp.livejournal.com]

Erm first question (and probably the most important one): HOW THE HELL DID SOMEONE OF HIS FAME GET AWAY WITH THIS FOR SO LONG?! How is he only getting pulled up for this now?! Shame on the German authorities or whatever, who have shown up their own incompetencies in this too. It's pretty embarrassing that they sent him fines and didn't bother to cross check this against a licence?!

I get they will use him as an example but the fact he has managed to drive around for so long without a licence says as much about him and his own stupidity as it does about the stupidity of the German dvla?!

This MASSIVELY dumb bae can do no wrong in my eyes really unless he fucks off to Bayern and I will be mad I'm jaded for this Bieber-esque bad boy. This is really dumb though, why take lessons and not do the test?! It's not as if he is short of money and could probably afford a frigging chauffeur! I can't say I'm disappointed, he's never struck me as the sharpest tool in the box, but it is pretty arrogant to think you can get away with this.

Oh well I hope he's not banned from this comm now for the outrage of this!!! I will cry :(

RE: IDGAF about this shit, #badboy4life

[eva]

If he got into an automated speeding trap, they'd just have checked the license plate to identify the owner of the car and then mailed the ticket to him. They don't really care who drove unless the owner said they weren't the one driving and started to dispute the fine, so I'd not be surprised if they didn't check the license.

Honestly, I've been driving for fifteen years, and I've never had to show my license to anyone. I've gotten three or so very low-level speeding tickets (in the "damn, this was a 50-kph zone, not a 70-kph as I thought" category), and once a call from the local police because I'd really inadvertently blocked someone's driveway in the dark and snow and they decided to do the quick and logical thing and tell me to move rather than tow the car. I'd be surprised if any of those things had involved anyone looking at my driving license.

[ananasonastick.livejournal.com]

It shouldn't make me rage but somehow it does?

Anyway, he's an idiot.

I get it

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Over here driving without a licence (as in, not having one) can get you jail time. I'm glad that they've given him a monstrous fine though. His excuse doesn't hold water in the slightest. How can you just... drive without a licence and it's no big in your world?

[eva]

German-language social media is having a field day with this. The fact that he's started "running training" today provides a lot of fodder, of course, and I just saw a tweet being quoted that translated to "Reus Immobile starting now". He deserves all of it and more, stupid child.

[blackjedii.livejournal.com]

hmm wait no is it april 1st?
this is just too silly to be believed

maybe he and jogi can get their own private bus rides

[mrsvixen.livejournal.com]

even I have a fucking license. smh, Marco. smh.

dead @ Rolls Reus tho

[moonlitpie.livejournal.com]

What an idiotic thing to do. I can't say I'm too surprised though. I can see why a young football star with lots of money probably thought he was above it all and didn't even bother to get his license. Still, I don't understand why he thought it was a good idea to drive around without a license. Did he think he was never going to get caught?

Supposedly he used a fake Dutch license.

[eva]

Oh boy.

Dortmund club management person Aki Watzke here:

Marco hat sich zu dem Schritt entschieden, ohne Führerschein zu fahren, als er 18 oder 19 Jahre alt war. Anschließend erst kam diese unfassbare Prominenz. Da konnte er natürlich schwerlich zu einer Fahrschule fahren und sagen: 'Ich möchte gern den Führerschein machen'. Das wäre ja sofort rausgekommen, und es war ja bekannt, dass er schon zuvor Auto gefahren war.

Marco decided to take the step of driving without license when he was eighteen or nineteen. Only after that came this incredible prominence. So he could barely drive to a driving school and say, "I'd like to take the license". That would have come out at once, and it was of course known that he had been driving before already.

And then blah-blah about them supporting young people who had made mistakes, and him accepting the punishment etc.

Watzke was asked about WDR (public TV/radio station) reporting Reus had shown a fake Dutch license in a police control, but declined to comment. Oh boy.

RE: Supposedly he used a fake Dutch license.

[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

oh dear :/

[lady-teazle.livejournal.com]

He's actually been driving w/o ever having a license? Remarkable. o.O And really stupid.

Well Rolls Reus, that's one hell of a fine, but you deserve it. On a brighter note, I hear you're back in practice, and will be ready after winter break. <3

[izaguirre.livejournal.com]

damn, the ball is way out the stupidity park with this one.

He's still a saint compared to Leigh Griffiths though.

[chuk-is-dazzled.livejournal.com]

Lmao this dumbass. He totally seems like someone who would do this. But who takes driving class/course but doesn't take the test????

[raubsaurier.livejournal.com]

I mean, I've forgotten to have my license on me once or twice (usually it's in my wallet or with my phone but not all the time oops)

I can't imagine having the balls to forget about it for three years.

[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

he didn't forget. he never had a license.

e: and if i'm not mistaken he's charged for 3 years because that's the last time they can conceivably say he was driving, given he got the first speeding ticket then.

he had the driving classes at 18 or 19 and i assume has been driving in between that time

[lieselmeminger.livejournal.com]

this is infuriating. just how arrogant and entitled do you have to be to think you can get away with this shit for as long as he has?

[funhouse.livejournal.com]

THREE years?

[eva]

More like six, from the way they recount his driving history. The three years is what they could easily pin him down for, as he admitted to driving by paying the speeding tickets and the points in the traffic register that likely came with them.

[connorblond.livejournal.com]

He is either an idiot, or an arrogant bastard, or both.

Or he has the worst bunch of advisors on this planet.

[germanophilia.livejournal.com]

Probably just an immature idiot.