Bribe Backfire: Difference between revisions

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Gosh, what a sticky situation you're in! Oh, if only you could just [[Buy Them Off|buy your way out of this situation]]...

 

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* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'', Jesse Custer's first meating, er, ''meeting'' with meat baron and [[Corrupt Hick]] Odin Quincannon ends with Quincannon trying to bribe Custer (who's just been declared sheriff of the town) into looking the other way and letting his workers have free run of the town. Custer [[Disproportionate Retribution|throws him out a window]].

 

*** That hasn't stopped Chrysoprase, a mobster troll, from playing with this by means of lending Vimes a coat while meeting him in a freezer so Vimes doesn't freeze. Vimes doesn't even think about the coat as he leaves the mobster mentions he hopes Sam's wife will enjoy the coat as well. Vimes, realizing what has happened, tells one of his men to destroy the coat with his [[BFG|Piecemaker]].

*** Alternatively Chrysoprase is showing respect to Vimes in pointing out to him that he's about to walk off with the coat on. They are meeting to discuss a mutual problem and wish to keep the status quo.

* The ''Worst Case Scenario Survival Guide to Travel'' has a section with suggestions of how to pass a bribe without this occurring.

* It's not seen attempted but the guards of the Grey Fortress (the prison used for the most powerful political prisoners) in the [[Codex Alera]] series are considered absolutely immune to bribery. It's the law that if a guard is offered a bribe and reports it, [[The Empire]] will reward him with a bonus three times the size of the attempted bribe.

* While [[Every Man Has His Price|bribery]] was common in the communist nations during the [[Cold War]] and is common in [[North Korea]]; this can backfire if the bribed official is threatened with exposure. Avoiding a [[Reassigned to Antarctica|transfer]], a prison sentence, or the death penalty is more important than money.

* Oh-so-painfully [[Truth in Television]]: Do a Google search on "bribe backfire" and check out the results. Attempted bribery is a serious offense, kids.

*** Technically corruption is not only bribery but any abuse of power (for example nepotism). Sure - to have low ranking the countries have to have low rate of bribery but technically there may be country which have less problems with briberies than those top ten.

** A subversion worth mentioning occured in Turkey a few years ago, where a young police officer refused a bribe - uncharactheristic enough, as the Turkish Police Force is notoriously corrupt. The people who offered the bribe then [[Crapsack World|simply beat him up till he was hospitalised]]. Bribe Backfire Backfire?

 

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