Money Moral Dilemma: Should I pay my friend's speeding fine?

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Here's this week's hypothetical situation for you to cogitate on:
A friend of mine was giving me a lift one night, and was caught by a fixed camera and given a speeding fine. As he was going out of his way to drop me off, should I pay his fine?
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Should I pay my friend's speeding fine?
A friend of mine was giving me a lift one night, and was caught by a fixed camera and given a speeding fine. As he was going out of his way to drop me off, should I pay his fine?
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If you don't then don't pay.
If you do then you may want to consider helping your friend out, after all he helped you out.
Whether you offer them some money to share the cost of the ticket is at your discretion and depends on the circumstances of the incident. As others have said:
-were you or the driver late for something? if so, whose fault was the lateness?
-were you distracting the driver?
-regardless of that will this impact your friendship and are you dependant on future lifts?
If you were the cause of lateness, hurry, were a distraction or if you are worried about this impacting the friendship /likelihood of future lifts, then by all means offer to pay half the cost of the fine to your friend as a goodwill gesture.
I am quite a fan of yellow fixed speed cameras that are sensibly sited. They don't catch people speeding, they catch people who are speeding WHERE they aren't looking where they are going; the principle being that if you can't notice a huge dayglow yellow box that's visible from some way off, you'll probably also not notice the child wandering out between two parked cars.
I have no problem with speed, I just think the driver ought to pay attention, which I think is a reasonable demand.
Before anybody replies to say, "ah, but I was caught by a mobile or disguised speed camera so you're talking rubbish", note that I said "yellow fixed speed cameras that are sensibly sited". And if I recall correctly, there is regulation prohibiting the disguise of cameras - the driver must be warned and the cameras must be visible from a considerable distance, which increases in line with the speed limit.
If not, it's the drivers responsibility to drive in a safe manner.
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