I was reading the papers just now over lunch and the Two Cops Commended For Saying No To Bribery news caught my attention. It is not the first time we have seen news like that. I don’t know how you feel about reading that sort of news. I get pissed off when I read shit like that. Why?
Why should we commend cops for not taking bribes? Isn’t it their job to not take bribes? Commending cops for not taking bribe is only publicly admitting that cops do take bribes. The have not done it once but several times. This time I’m really pissed. No offense to the 2 coppers for not taking bribes by the way. Cops should be commended for making arrest, not for saying no to bribes. If we commend cops for saying no to bribery then
I should get commended for every day I don’t use the word fuck
I don’t know what’s the deal with the newspapers nowadays, reporting useless and embarrassing shit. Commending 2 cops for not taking bribes is just plain embarrassing. It just shows how corrupted the police are that you have to praise the honest ones. And how often do they get praised? 2 or 3 times a year, so we only have 4 or 6 honest cops. Hey, I didn’t say the cops were corrupted. They admitted it themselves when they commended 2 cops for not taking bribes.
If I were a cop would I take bribes? Sure I would. But that’s me. I don’t give a fuck if it was under table money or above the table money. Money is money. But would I give a bribe? No I would not. Have I given a bribe before? Yes I have. But it was not because I wanted to, it was because I was naive and I was extorted not on 1 occasion but on several occasions. For those of you that don’t know how to initiate the bribe conversation this is how you do it:
Police: Ah chai, you tak pakai seat belt ah (you never use your seat belt)
Offender: Oh ya kah? (oh really?)
Police: IC lisen mari (give me your license and identity card)
Offender: ok…
Police: sekarang nak tulis saman ah (I’m going to write the summon now)
Basically the above line is rubbish. Why don’t you get to the fucking point? Write the fucking summon, you don’t have to tell me or whoever that you are writing the summon. But anyway after he says that you have a few options:
1. Boleh settle? (Can settle?)
2. Boleh bagi can? (Can give me a chance?)
After saying one of the above you will get the following:
1. Berapa you mau settle? (How much can you pay to settle?)
Then you negotiate how much to pay. In my 12 years of driving I have only been summoned once for not wearing a seat belt. And I can tell you it was done in less than 4 minutes. He came over, told me what I did wrong, took my IC and license and wrote me a summon all in under 4 minutes and 12 words. This is what he said:
Police: You didn’t wear your seat belt, IC and license please.
Fawked: …
Police: Thank you (after handing me my summon)
That was the only fucking time I made a mistake, it was only because I just came out of my customers shop and I wanted to drive less than a kilometre away to my next customer. I have never been given a ticket for speeding or some other shit.
When I just got my license at the age of 17 I was caught for all kinda horrendous shit. Sure, at that age you could bullshit me to part with my money. Here are all of the times I got my ass extorted:
Case 1: I was accused for driving without without wearing shoes. I was driving barefooted, apparently it was an offense so big they could haul my ass to jail. Bribe paid: RM30
Case 2: Accused of having a bald car tire. Bribe paid: RM30
Case 3: Riding a bike without wearing a helmet. Normally if you ride a bike without a helmet you deserve to get fucked. But we just came out of the cyber cafe, hopped on the bike and rode a distance of 50 metres to the restaurant. 50 FUCKING METRES. It wasn’t even a main road, it was a back alley. What the fuck is the cops doing manning a road block in the back alley? Catch speeding rats? Paid RM1 for ever meter we went cause he charged us RM50.
The best story would have to be this one Chinese New Year. My buddy Bullet and I wanted to go buy some liquor. We went on his motorbike. Bullet made an illegal u-turn then a traffic copper on those 500cc bikes chased after us. The conversation:
Police: You made an illegal u-turn
Bullet: Yea
Police: I know it’s Chinese New Year and I don’t really want to summon you
Bullet: ok… so will you give me a chance?
Police: But I can’t really give you a chance, you made an illegal u-turn its dangerous.
Bullet: Can settle?
Police: How much you can pay?
Bullet: How much you want?
Police: RM50
Bullet: We don’t have money we are just kids. (we were 17 then)
Police: Then how much?
Bullet: RM20 can?
That was when he said something so fucking funny and stupid that we will remember for the rest of our lives and I want to share it with all of you. This is what he said:
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I’m old already. I’m going to die soon. If people hear I took a RM20 bribe people will laugh at me.
Seriously that was what he said. That was not the end of the story. We settle for RM40, the asshole wouldn’t lower the price cause he knew it was Chinese New Year and we had ang pow money. We lied we didn’t have money but we were each carrying about RM500 in RM50 notes. Bullet asked me to pay for it and I asked him to pay. It was funny really, we told the cop we didn’t have money. So we couldn’t possibly give him RM50 and ask for RM10 change from him. Luckily Bullet had RM20 and I have RM20 so we paid the copper the RM40.
Then get this, after he gets his money he says thank you and whistles, get on his bike and makes a u-turn. Because he stopped us on a 1 way street, he made a fucking u-turn and went against traffic. Now what the fuck is that? The cops are above the law? That’s not dangerous?
Nowadays I’m much older, and the cops know it too. They can’t trick me. If I didn’t do anything wrong they can’t come up with lame excuses to extort from me. But maybe the cops are just much better nowadays. Maybe. I will never ever give a bribe. If I did something wrong I would rather face the consequences. I’m not going to part with my money.
All those anti-bribery sticker on the patrol cars and anti bribery button badges, its all stupid and a waste of money. What’s the benefit of it? To educate the public not to bribe the cops? How about you fucking educate your workers not to accept bribes instead. Instead of buying medals to commend cops that don’t take bribes, why don’t you buy a fucking clue.
I can’t emphasize enough how stupid it is to commend cops that don’t take bribes. Commendations are to be given to people that do something exceptional, something out of the ordinary. You don’t commend people for doing what they are supposed to do. Maybe they do admit, saying no to a RM200 bribe is something exceptional and out of the ordinary.