As a follow-up to yesterday's article, here is the tale of a traffic stop that happened to our Spanish teacher two weeks ago. She was stopped while driving without her seatbelt on. It's said here that traffic cops are more active before holidays, when they need to take in more morditas (bribes).

While looking at her car and papers, he noticed that her car wasn't registered in the state Chihuahua, her bumper was loose, etc. So he started talking about impounding her car and issuing her several tickets. After a half-hour of discussion, however, she left after only paying him the equivalent of $10. Not bad! I always thought you had to haggle with them for an hour to avoid paying outrageous fines...

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