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Paying bribes in Poland - necessity or a luxury?


gtd 3 | 639  
18 Oct 2008 /  #31
In Warsaw homeless or just less than clean looking guys hang around many of the parking areas and ask for money to 'watch' your car. If you don't pay this little bribe often something "happens" to your car.

I have had police outside of Warsaw play the bribe game when they pulled us over for speeding..which we were not..after a serious argument and us asking them to call their supervisor to come out or we would they let us go but acted like they were just giving us a warning this time.

I do have to say in the city of Warsaw at least the Police are generally friendly and upstanding in my experience.

I hate extortionists and corrupt idiots though.
mauro 9 | 43  
18 Oct 2008 /  #32
In Warsaw homeless or just less than clean looking guys hang around many of the parking areas and ask for money to 'watch' your car. If you don't pay this little bribe often something "happens" to your car.

that's happens in Italy too...unlickily.
benszymanski 8 | 465  
18 Oct 2008 /  #33
and in Lisbon when I was there....
Krakowianka 1 | 243  
22 Oct 2008 /  #34
BubbaWoo:
Take the example of a celnik.

great example but 15 years ago

Nope, I meant current time. Perhaps you don't see how many cars are coming in from the US. Or how many containers from China?
sobieski 106 | 2,118  
23 Oct 2008 /  #35
I am living four years now in Warsaw, have never ever given money to these parking gits, and never something happened to my car.
I just ignore them.

About the police in Warsaw, I have been stopped twice in these four years.
Twice for forgetting to switch on my lights (it was still in the time that we only had to do that in winter) on a clear and sunny winterday.

And twice I only got a friendly warning.
Not even an attempt to get a bribe.
Kowalski 7 | 621  
23 Oct 2008 /  #36
some korupcja cases from policja.pl
Guest  
31 Oct 2008 /  #37
Ive paid a few and im not talking about tipping the waiter.

NO!! It's a crime. You are perpetuating the corruption for God's sake.

In that you are supporting the criminal bastards - if they dont like the pay they shouldn't join the police force in the first place. They knew the conditions when they joined.

Paying bribes, as in America, means they will always wait in places where there are no children playing - just to play the fool.
Speed cameras are cool and I support them as they are mostly placed in areas where children live.

If I am stopped by the police by exceeding the speed limit where it is perfectly safe to do so and they are harassing me, I keep them talking for a long time - firmly but politely - and they get so pissed off at the lack of progress thay are making that they inevitably let me go and harass somebody else.

Might be cheaper to have the architect submit a revised plan.

The biggest problem is extending over the building line. Too close to a road and the house comes down.

Also, if you are talking about an exterior wall being half a metre out then the builder should cough up the 5,000zl. Or is the builder not responsible ?

I don't know you Wroclaw Boy but please don't talk ****.

You have ruined your environemnet by refuting a green belt policy and building wherever you want and yet you talk about houses "coming down".

I couldn't care less as a matter of fact because Poland is only my second home but to intimate that you have a planning regime where some homes arae refused or are pulled down, as opposed toi the situation in the UK or even the Czech republic is a gross misrepresatation of the facts to put it politely.

Meanwhile developers in Poland continue to rape the landscape - I hope your colleagues sleep at night. Zero aesthetics and total kitsch, just like in communist times.

Nothing changes in ole Polska.

I don't know you Wroclaw but please don't talk ****e.

You have ruined your environment by refuting a green belt policy and building wherever you want and yet you talk about houses "coming down".

I couldn't care less as a matter of fact because Poland is only my second home but to intimate that you have a planning regime where some homes are refused or are pulled down, as opposed toi the situation in the UK or even the Czech republic is a gross misrepresentation of the facts to put it politely.

Meanwhile developers in Poland continue to rape the landscape - I hope your colleagues sleep at night. Zero aesthetics and total kitsch, just like in communist times.

Nothing changes in ole Polska.

Well - here is a board where editing is not clear - also I am Dougpol from Katowice -not guest - could somebody please help me out on how this forum works because it's a little bit of a learning curve - and sorry Wroclaw but you touched a nerve there bud - wasn't having a go at you - honest! :)
SeanBM 35 | 5,806  
31 Oct 2008 /  #38
I don't know you Wroclaw Boy but please don't talk ****.

Just to tell you, you are talking to two different people, Wroclaw and Wroclaw Boy, i do not think they are related ??? :)
look at the picture avatar thingy.

You have ruined your environemnet by refuting a green belt policy and building wherever you want and yet you talk about houses "coming down".

I believe you have misunderstood BIG TIME.




Well - here is a board where editing is not clear - also I am Dougpol from Katowice -not guest -

I don't mean to sound racist but all you guests look the same, ha ha ha, I crack me up.

ould somebody please help me out on how this forum works because it's a little bit of a learning curve -

Me too, This is my first forum and it does take a little while to get used to.
life is a learning curve.
Wroclaw 44 | 5,379  
31 Oct 2008 /  #39
to intimate that you have a planning regime where some homes arae refused or are pulled down,

It might be an idea if you checked the context of my post.

Also, Wroclaw and Wroclaw boy are two different people.

Zero aesthetics

Some of my previous posts will show that I'm basically in agreement with this.

Edit: I've just read the above posts. I see what is going on.
Guest  
31 Oct 2008 /  #40
Just to tell you, you are talking to two different people, Wroclaw and Wroclaw Boy, i do not think they are related ??? :)
look at the picture avatar thingy.

LOL - missed that small point. Very confusing. Thanks for the clarification.

Nottingham "boy"
SeanBM 35 | 5,806  
31 Oct 2008 /  #41
Also, Wroclaw and Wroclaw boy are two different people.

Are you father and son , ha ha ha ha sorry i could not resist.




LOL - missed that small point. Very confusing. Thanks for the clarification.

I have made similar mistakes meself, not on this but similar.

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