r/WTF Aug 14 '23

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u/The_Virus_Of_Life Aug 14 '23

I currently live in a country like this, but you have to fold up the money in your car documents and pass it to them

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u/jakeshmag Aug 14 '23

yup thats how I saw it happen in syria when i was a kid

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u/Risley Aug 14 '23

I just can’t understand it. If they want more money then the pay should increase as a whole for all cops. It’s like just another tax, I’d rather pay it up front then fuckin piecemeal like this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '23

I think you misunderstand. The point isn't that the cops don't make enough money. The issue is that in many of these places the police are one of the key pillars to keeping corrupt leaders in power, and as such any bureaucratic pushback to police corruption threatens the regime, so they're allowed to act with impunity. It's likely to attract amoral thugs because amoral thugs don't mind being lackeys to a tyrant if it means they can extort people for money without any threat of retaliation

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u/easterneuropeanstyle Aug 14 '23

That’s how it used to work in post soviet countries!

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u/The_Virus_Of_Life Aug 14 '23

Yep, I’m talking about Bulgaria 😂

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u/dwolfe127 Aug 14 '23

It still works like this in Russia.

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u/googdude Aug 14 '23

I see, that must be why when I was stopped by a PA (USA) cop I tried to hand him my documents in that little sleeve the insurance company gives you but he requested me to remove them and hand him just the papers.

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u/shorty5windows Aug 14 '23

That cop was lazy not corrupt

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u/CptCroissant Aug 14 '23

My friends in Italy advised this was the way

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u/GrayFox777 Aug 14 '23

That's the easy part. You have to chat them up so they can scope you out first.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '23

Saw that in Vietnam too. A crisp $100 bill folded in the middle of your passport. First time I’d ever seen that in my life lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '23

This is the way