Poor Eastern Europeans?

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Fungus replied

12 May 2006, 09:08
Can't you just pretend to be monoglot French, Welsh, Xhosa or whatever?
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Lord replied

12 May 2006, 08:49
They only stung me for 2 quid, but I was with a couple of Czech friends. Usually you can bargain the Czech police down to nothing, as if they realise they are spending a lot of time with you and you are not going to pay, then they will move on to the next foreign mug
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sunnysan replied

11 May 2006, 17:22
Eastern European p!sstake

I got fined £10 for jaywalking in Prague.

Serious law enforcement that....
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hyperD replied

11 May 2006, 15:47
Yep it's true. Surprised the arse out of me.

And did it in 2 weeks. Managed a top speed on the autobahns of 170 mph before the missus woke up.

With the roof down.
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DimPrawn replied

11 May 2006, 15:24
That's incredible, infact hard to believe.

You travelled 4500 miles in a TVR and it didn't fall to pieces. Do the Guinness Book of records know about this?
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hyperD replied

11 May 2006, 15:17
Originally posted by Francko

Funny you mentioned because the policemen in eastern europe are some of the worst categories in the country.

Their only chance to have a normal salary is to get bribes from speeders like AtW. No wonder I have never seen a policeman in eastern europe, they are all on the motorways to bribe on fines.

Absolutely - we drove 4500 miles around Europe in the TVR Tuscan and no problems at all....until we got to Hungary and within 2 mins of crossing the border we were stopped. They tried to say I didn't have the appropriate documentation.... then my wife spoke up in perfect Hungarian and reluctantly they let us go after meticulously searching the car.

We got stopped a further 5 times while there... my wife got an on-the-spot fine for crossing the middle white line even though we hadn't seen the village sign - apparantly it had been taken down but it didn't stop the police setting up a blockade pulling over every other car.

Kerchingggg!

Surprised they haven't tried that here. Oh yes, they have.
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Francko replied

11 May 2006, 13:32
Funny you mentioned because the policemen in eastern europe are some of the worst categories in the country.

Their only chance to have a normal salary is to get bribes from speeders like AtW. No wonder I have never seen a policeman in eastern europe, they are all on the motorways to bribe on fines.
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NoddY replied

11 May 2006, 13:27
I think we should give them more money to keep up with Italy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3717471.stm
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DimPrawn started a topic Poor Eastern Europeans?

11 May 2006, 12:50
Poor Eastern Europeans?

Even the police are driving Porsche convertibles
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