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Have you ever tried to bribe anyone or has anyone ever tried to bribe you?

I've bribed many people overseas, especially in Pakistan. I even bribed a driving instructor to get me my licence, this was my second attempt - the first time I bribed the wrong intsructor!!

I've tried to bribe the police in England twice, both unsucessfully. The first time I was warned that I had committed a criminal offence, and the second time the Officer quickly removed the money from his pocked and pushed it back into my hand. I also once tried to bribe one of my University Lecturers but she quickly walked away with a horrified look on her face.

I have however been sucessful in bribing a Curry's Sales Assistant, a video shop worker and a nighclub Bouncer.

Do you think that everyone has their price, or are people in certain professions just too professional or affluent to be swayed by illegal financial gain?

Mani Hussain Fri 04/07/08 17:44

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Catron
Sun 06/07/08
12:52

You may excuse your behaviour with that reasoning ghetto poet but it just isn't so - there are those, including myself, who are unbribeable.

Stating something as universal as some people have done on this thread (everybody) is rather naive as no single person can know the character of even those in the street where they live, let alone the district or town/city.

naomi24
Sun 06/07/08
13:44

Some people seem to find it difficult to believe that others don't necessarily think the way they do, and so, mentally, they endow everyone with the only mindset they know - their own.

I couldn't be bribed Mani, and I would shop you if I saw you stealing a car, and unlike Theland's son, it wouldn't occur to me to agree to buy something if I didn't have the money to pay for it, so for me a situation like that would never have arisen.

People are so often the authors of their own misfortune, but sadly that doesn't occur to them.

ruby27
Sun 06/07/08
16:31

No I have never tried to bribe someone. Never had occasion to and until now have never even thought of potential situation when I might want to follow that course of action.

No one has ever tried to bribe me and I can not imagine they ever would, but in the unlikely event someone did want to, I would need to work out if the inducement was greater than the immorality of accepting.

So would I turn a blind eye to a non violent crime for a drug that cured my loved one of cancer, then probably yes. For a violent crime then probably no.

keyplus90
Sun 06/07/08
19:44

I am sure Wasim Akram would not like that. I always have this feling that matches can not be fixed only by one or two people. And there have players of other countries as well including England, Australian and South African who admitted receiving money but no one would remember them but every one would know about one or two Pakistanis. That is what I call double standards. But sorry all this has nothing to do with the question directly.

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