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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

[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.

[eva]

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.

[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

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?

he really is a child, idek :/

[kaiserschmarrn.livejournal.com]

It really is an adolescent thing to do but idk, I'm his age and I can't imagine anyone I know pulling something like this, not just because of maturity but also because we lack that sense of entitlement that comes with being rich and seemingly free of all responsibilities? Idk. It think to call it a "Dummheit" is a tad trivializing on his part as well - he was actively endangering lives (because driving without having ever obtained a license is one thing but constantly speeding is another, that's bad enough on its own and 5 times should've been enough to learn that particular lesson earlier). And I can't imagine that he had enough driving lessons to actually take the test because he probably would've done so; he likely only ever had two or three lessons and no theory and then thought, ah, fuck it, I've already got a fancy car (or enough money to buy one) and my dad showed me how to drive in a parking lot~, I don't need this.

[eva]

I think plenty of these boys have been "stars" at too early an age. Some of the late bloomers (or whatever you'd want to call them) whose careers got going later seem a lot more mature. Take Miro Klose or Per Mertesacker, for instance. I'm not really surprised at Reus, but I'd be gobsmacked if either of them did something like that.

[kaiserschmarrn.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It's not good that they get this amount of money and fame this early (coupled with a lack of "normal" school education, though I think this has probably gotten better, and not the highest IQ). Even if they have a strong support system with family and friends, they're bound to lose touch with reality. I'd be more surprised if they were more grounded. You see similar phenomena with actors - child actors vs. actors who got their break late in life.

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

Money is no excuse and time isn't either. He doesn't have to train and play every hour of the day.
It's just stupid.

[eva]

Oh, not trying to excuse it at all; I was trying to understand how he might have rationalised it at the time, but it's really quite impossible to fathom. And really, it was only a matter of time until some police officers stopped him with that car of all things. I wouldn't be surprised if they mostly wanted to get a closer look at the car (or stick it to a rich person and succeeded beyond their wildest dream).

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

I meant that he shouldn't use it as an excuse. But I think that when you get away with something once or twice, you start to feel invincible, like you'll get away with it every time.
Also people would start asking question if he suddenly showed up for driving lessons. And then you are kinda stuck in a difficult situation.