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Japan Sushi Chain Seeks $480,000 In Damages From Boy Who Licked Soy Bottle
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Finnish Millionaire Anders Wiklof Fined $212,000 For Speeding
A Finnish millionaire has been handed a massive €121,00 ($212,000) fine for going 30km/h over the speed limit.
Anders Wiklof, 76, was caught travelling 82km/h in a 50 km/h zone in the sce- nic Aaland Islands, where the businessmen lives.
“I really regret the matter,” he told local
newspaper Nya Aland.
“I had just started to slow down, but I guess it wasn’t going fast enough and
that’s how it went.”
Wiklof also lost his license for 10 days.
This isn’t Wiklof’s first brush with the law and he paid a €95,000 fine in 2013 and a €63,680 fine in 2018,
the Independent reported.
Finland links fines to the offender’s daily disposable income.
Wiklof’s company, Wiklof Holding, is valued at more than $10 million.
Sushiro, a major conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain in Japan, has filed a 67 mil- lion (US $480,000) lawsuit against a boy who licked a soy sauce bottle at one of its outlets. According
to South China Morning Post (SCMP), Akindo Sushiro, which runs the restaurant chain, filed the lawsuit at the Osaka District Court on March 22 and the details were revealed this month. The incident took place in the Gifu prefecture in January this year when the boy visited the restau- rant with a friend.
According to the complaint filed in the court, the boy licked was filmed licking an open soy sauce bottle and an unused teacup, and then touched a passing plate of sushi with a finger covered in his saliva.
The company claimed that after the video was uploaded on social
media on January 29, its restaurants saw a sharp fall in customer number.
The suit also alleges that the footage caused its par- ent company's market capi- talisation to fall by more than 16 billion yen.
The SCMP report also said that Akindo Sushiro is installing plastic barriers at over 600 outlets nationwide among other measures due to the incident, which result- ed in a loss of 90 million yen.
The boy admitted to licking the items and expressed remorse, but asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, The Asahi Shimbun said.
The boy said he and his friend who recorded the prank did not intend for the footage to be shared with a third party and go viral on social media.
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