Hey adventure950,
Your post is a little strange, I'm not sure where you got the idea from that I'm brimming with anger held against 'authority'? I simply do not feel obliged to blindly obey traffic rules/laws (and to some extent rules/laws in general). If you ever break speed limits then you are hypocritical to condemn me for this opinion.

My original post was with regards to what happens when you get caught by the old bill. Colebatch said he thought you should cough up straight away, that it's immoral to try and sit it out, wait to be let off. I don't agree with this at all. If they're trying to penalise you for a technicality, then it's fair game to try and wriggle out of it however.

Some would say that your eagerness to break out the 100 dollar notes the moment a policeman stops you and accuses you of a traffic rule infringement, "will knock onto the next guy travelling through where ever", but I suppose if he doesn't have the same unlimited depth wallet as you that's not really your problem.


For the record, I never had any difficulties with Russian police, the only encounters I had with Russian traffic coppers were pulling over at their checkpoints to ask them directions. I am only able to say from these encounters that they were fairly polite and helpful. In central Asia however I got stopped numerous times by dodgey coppers trying to accuse me of made up offences asking for money. I never payed any of them a penny, and all of them were quite friendly and cheerful when eventually letting me go - Obviously there are enough 'two wheeled cash machines' out there to make trying it on a a lighthearted but worthwhile affair for them.

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UK to Mongolia 2009, on a DR350