Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They are still blatantly common in India. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Douglas asks: > "Were bribes to policemen common in communist Poland in the 70s?" > - - - - - > I don't know about Poland, but they were certainly common in Yugoslavia > during the 60's. On a driving trip through Yugoslavia on the way to Greece, > we were stopped at least a half dozen times in our half pint sized Hillman > Imp and accused of miscellaneous traffic violations. These could all be > fixed on the spot by paying a fine directly to the policeman who stopped > us. > Fortunately the Yugoslav dinar was so cheap that the total of the fines > came > to less than $20 US. At that time a bottle of reasonable Yugoslav wine cost > about 25 cents. A cup of coffee, on the other hand, was $2.00. > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >