Glad you escaped without having to pay the fine or endure any additional penalties. It happens more then you think, often the people who are supposed to protect us and be upholding the law are the most crooked.

I have been living here in the Philippines for the past 10 years and the traffic enforcers are the same way. They will look for any small traffic offense as an excuse to pull someone over in order to secure a bribe or payoff. I have gotten a lot smarter since I first moved here though.

There are also incidents at the airport, which have now been addressed - hopefully, where the baggage scanners were accused of slipping bullets into passengers luggage during inspection to scam them into paying a fine for contraband or risk going to jail. At one time so many people fell victim to this extortion and either had to pay dearly or risk arrest. Luckily it was exposed and several people were prosecuted. That of course doesn't mean that it won't happen again. There is so much corruption in this world and the scams are very similar everywhere as your experience and it's done by the same people. I guess it's true that most criminals are the same.

Anyways, glad you got away without any implications. PS. I mentioned you in my latest article. Hope you don't mind.

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