As we were
leaving CULICAN (Sinaloa) we were caught in the ‘classic’ scenario. It was both
a Sunday and an afternoon and we were on the edge of town on our way out.
Cops. Gilbert Arnulfo #284 @ 1420hrs 24 46'007"/107 21'747"
They
stopped us and started the dance. Their
claim was that we ran a red light – but it was two lights ago (a ploy designed
to make it long enough back that we can’t remember there being two lights so
maybe we did???). We stood firm, denied
the infraction, spoke French and certainly NO Spanish. Handed over photocopy of the Driver
Licence....finally they got tired of us and sent us on our way.
I did offer
them to accompany them to the police station – to show our originals and to see
the ‘photos’ of the infraction. This of
course was ignored as this is contrary to the shake-down.
The one
thing that made this one different is that they wanted our licence plate
–instead of our original Driver’s Licence -
as ‘guarantee’ that we would not leave without paying.
La même en french c'est possible ??? J'ai juste compris les grandes lignes...
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on s'est fait arrêter par les flics. Je conduisais, ils m'ont dit que j'avais grillé un feu. Evidemment c'était faux. Ils ont fait tout un spectacle. On n'a fait genre qu'on ne parlait pas un mot d'espagnol. Ils voulaient clairement de l'argent. On n'a pas payé et on n'est resté sur notre position. On n'a dit qu'on était prêt à aller au commissariat ou à avoir une amende sur papier qu'on irait payé plus tard. Ils nous ont finalement laissé partir ...
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