Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Transportation

This is transportation in India
The first day we were driving in a modern car and Anil got pulled over.. Now getting pulled over in India is not a police car turning on their lights behind you.  Here in India the police officer is standing on the side of the road, and with a hand signal you must pull over.  He walked over to our car and had a confrontation with Anil in a local language that we do not understand.  They settled on a bribe of 100 rupees and the officer let us go.  Anil told us that had he not bribed the officer he would of had to pay a fine for us not wearing our seat belts.. but instead of a fine the officer will pocket the bribe money. 

1 comment:

  1. 100 rupees = $1.92

    Not a whole lot, but I think it would get annoying paying bribes everywhere you go all the time.

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