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Originally Posted by lost99
Shakedown and roadblocks common, but driving paddywagons to detain foriegners at their hotel lobbies is an absolute low....  |
In these cowboy cities, police or locals call them legal mafia, can do anything to detain foreigners.
Happened to me once, my colleague and I were inside a blue bird when stopped by a motorbike police. Told us to show our passports, I took out my passport my laptop bag but told my colleague not to pass to him but just show. After some conversation, finally he told me to pay "fine" or follow him to police station. I told him I will go to his station but as my colleague did not want to waste time, he took out USD 5 to the asshole, but he refused to take saying, there were 5 policemen. My colleague n I looked at each other, where were the other 4??? In the end, again my colleague worried and wanted to go back hotel rest, passed 20 USD to him and he left.... the driver later mentioned, "mafia".
In this type of country, it is chain of corruptions. The top screws the country while the rest screws the citizen and foreigners.
As mentioned in the forum and to my friends.... we are lucky to be surrounded by these idiots. If we were surrounded by South Korea, Japan.... Singapore economic and as a country will be dead.