We’re no advocates of law breaking here for obvious reasons but if there is one thing that Bernie Madoff has taught us then it’s this. If you are going to get busted and put away, then a surefire way of getting remembered for it is to go big. Very big.

Which leads us to… Neil Purves, 27, of Cockburnspath, who was detected by police as he travelled at 166mph on a 60mph stretch of the A702 near West Linton in the Borders reports the BBC. At nearly 3 times the speed limit on an A-road, Scottish authorities believe it is the fastest somone has been caught in Scotland.

Nominative determinism is normally reserved for horoscope reading types but you have to wonder sometimes. Mr Purves representative in court had this to say, "It is fair to say superbikes have a seductive appeal to them. It is fair to say he was seduced by speed."

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