Just want to hear stories so I can mentally prepare myself for such… hostile… interactions… (Hopefully this never happens to me)
P.S: And before anyone start spamming “Don’t Consent to searches”, remember that that’s a very democracy-centric viewpoint. In some countries you could be jailed for refusing.
Yes, dosens of times.
I grew up in eastern europe and things work differently there.
Oftentimes the cops would fish for bribes. Cops would pick you up on the street/stop you in traffic and search you/your car/whatever in hopes of finding something to hook onto and escalate the situation further and put you in a legally difficult situation.
Then they would generously offer that they can make it all go away if somebody from your family comes and brings X amount of money.
This didn’t happen just to me, in most countries of the former eastern block that’s just a fact of life.