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I once had to grease a custom official's palm to get out of a foreign country, a wad of bank notes worth about 45p which went straight into his pocket. In fact, everybody on our flight had to, the thieving scrote. Talk to us about corrupt officials, or confess your own wrongdoing. We won't tell anyone.

Thanks to Ye of Little Faith for the suggestion

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 13:44)
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I have left a scattered trail of Chanel No5, bottles of Johnny Walker and expensive chocolates from one end of the
earth to the other over the last 25 years.

All petty stuff, but often inappropriate.

My favourite was the request from a guy who was in charge of customs clearing goods in Lagos. This is a job we guessed was probably worth about 30 grand a year, tops.

He needed a new part for one of the gyroscopic instruments in his Cessna 182. At the time a second hand one of those would have set you back easy 100 grand.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 14:52, 25 replies)
A part for a gyroscopic instrument?
You could buy the whole plane for 100 grand.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 15:16, closed)
Well, I meant the whole plane.
Point was, someone who was earning roughly the same as a bus driver was flying his own aircraft around.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 15:22, closed)
You have not made that very clear in the original post. Most of the stuff you post here is meaningless.
Just making a point. No need to cry about it.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:20, closed)
Another zinger.
You're on fire today, aren't you?
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:33, closed)
What does that even mean in terms of the topic, corruption?

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 15:18, closed)
Good question.
Thanks for the great post.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 15:23, closed)
"I once sold a man a machine part that he had requested from me" doesn't really seem to fit the bill, does it?

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:04, closed)
Well, I didn't sell it to him, he asked
us to get it for him. We don't sell airoplane parts. We do (or in fact did, this was a while ago) sell things to Nigeria that require customs clearance.

Now, which part of "talk to us about corrupt officials" is it you're not getting, Dr Hawking?
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:33, closed)
Context is everything, m'dear.
Contrary to your expectations, I haven't been stalking you about the internet, and so am not au fait with the methods by which you earn your crust
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:44, closed)
come on, man
everybody knows him ... he's kind of a big deal in the selling cheap shit to west African countries world
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:48, closed)
Once again, my ignorance is exposed for all the world to see.
Should probably kill myself.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:57, closed)
I know.
Looking at it again, it wasn't very clear. Sorry for flinging shit.

I'll leave it as it is though, Dr quinch gets anxious if I change things. Like Rain man.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:56, closed)
Hey! You can't apologise to me!
We're supposed to argue until one of us flounces off, or the thread gets deleted.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 17:01, closed)
I'll apologise if
I want to, cuntbubble!
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 17:07, closed)
That's more like it.
Now, take that apology back, before I jump in my Accord and fuck you up with my ninja training.
I know where you live, y'know.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 17:47, closed)
I insist you edit your post so that we all know WTFYABOA in the correct manner.
I suppose that it never occurred to you that he was making commercial gain from the aeroplane and that is how he managed to own it.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 18:42, closed)
Let's just agree he was
up to no good and move on.
(, Fri 4 Jul 2014, 8:26, closed)
It's "aeroplane".

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 20:07, closed)
nnnnNNNNEEEEEOOOOWWwwww

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 23:04, closed)
what sort of desperate fuckup could be bribed with a bottle of johnny wankers?

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:27, closed)
popular forum commentator 'username failed moderation', that's who.

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 16:58, closed)
which popular forum is he a member of?

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 18:08, closed)
richarddawkins.net

(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 18:43, closed)
A bottle of JW Blue goes down very well with the Middlesex Sikhs. Not corruption but at weddings
they guzzle the fuck out of JW Blue.
(, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 18:40, closed)

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