On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:39:18 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2014-08-07 12:49 PM, sf wrote:

> > Scary, scary dudes. Putin
> > should take his KGB training and put them out of business, but I have
> > a feeling they are what really runs the country.
>
> It has filtered into their former satellite states. One of my nieces was
> living in Estonia and a few years ago moved to Latvia and is now in one
> hell of a legal mess that she is fighting under the delusion that
> western morality and legal standards will prevail. She was backing her
> car and some old lady was quite a way back from the rear of the car,
> fell and broker her hip. She claimed to have been knocked down by the
> car. It was winter and the car was dirty but no marks in the back of the
> car from anything contacting it. The eye witness is a taxi driver who
> was sitting in a car about 200 yards down the road and facing the other
> way.
>
> When the incident initially happened the cops investigated it and told
> her that if she paid a certain amount, which worked out to about
> $10,000, the criminal investigation would be called off. She refused.
> She didn't do anything wrong. She didn't hit the old girl. So she was
> prosecuted and convicted, and is now appealing the conviction. It is a
> criminal charge, not a traffic code violation.

Sorry to hear that, sounds like she's screwed.

In Egypt, when there's an accident the two parties haggle, money
changes hands and both parties go their separate ways. I witnessed
the process.

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