"Typical" doesn't fit with "at worst".

The former may well be as you say, though when I tried to find real stats I was unable to tell what the breakdown of offence was let alone punishments (if someone has an official link, not opinion piece, I'd be interested).

All I do know is that one of the more famous cases is that kind of scale, total penalty being £985 including costs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_joke_trial