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* In prison camps, bribery is sometimes used to suborn the opposite side's troops. In books on the German [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Castle WW2 POW Camp Colditz]], both Pat Reid and Reinhold Eggers have related one occasion in which a German Army guard took a bribe, reported it, then followed instructions to let the escape proceed until all the British officers involved were captured. After that, the guard was allowed to keep the money given to him!
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* In an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David tries to bribe a pharmacist to cut in line to get medicine for his wife. The pharmacist takes extreme offense at this.
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* In an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, CurbYourEnthusiasm, Larry David tries to bribe a pharmacist to cut in line to get medicine for his wife. The pharmacist takes extreme offense at this.
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*** That hasn't stopped Chryophase, 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]].
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*** That hasn't stopped Chryophase, 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]].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, Chrysoprase does not want to accidently insinuate a that a bribe has occurred.
*** 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, Chrysoprase does not want to accidently insinuate a that a bribe has occurred.
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* In ''TheUntouchables'' a corrupt alderman tries to bribe Eliot Ness on behalf of Al Capone. The alderman suffers no personal consequences but he does incur a classic scolding from Ness (in front of Ness's team), including the splendid line "In Roman times, when a fellow was convicted of trying to bribe a public official, they would cut off his nose, and sew him in a bag with a wild animal, and throw him in a river," and has the bribe tossed back at him.
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** backfires big time on Bart in one episode where he gets a job for fat tony: tries to bribe skinner when he catches him spraying graffiti, Skinner keeps him after school, Bart vents to fat Tony, and Skinner soon mysteriously dissapears, even though fat tony had absolutely nothing to do with it, it almost gets Bart convicted of First Degree Murder.
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* Mocked hilariously on ''{{The Simpsons}}'' when Homer wants to bribe Officer Wiggum but is too dumb to see his obvious clues.
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* Mocked hilariously on ''{{The Simpsons}}'' when Homer wants probably would have wanted to bribe Officer Wiggum but is too dumb to see his the obvious clues.clues that Wiggum wanted to be bribed.
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*** That hasn't stopped Chryophase, 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]].
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*** That hasn't stopped Chryophase, 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 [[{{BFG}} Piecemaker]].
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*** That hasn't stopped Chryophase, 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]].
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* Happens in the ''GeorgeGently'' episode "Bomber's Moon". A German businessman tries to bribe Sgt. Bachus. Bachus accepts the bribe so he will have the evidence to arrest him.
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* Happens in the ''GeorgeGently'' ''InspectorGeorgeGently'' episode "Bomber's Moon". A German businessman tries to bribe Sgt. Bachus. Bachus accepts the bribe so he will have the evidence to arrest him.
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*** 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 then those top ten.
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*** 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 then than those top ten.
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-->'''Homer''': "Not right now, son. Daddy's talking to a policeman."
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-->'''Homer''': "Not "[[NotNowKiddo Not right now, son. son.]] Daddy's talking to a policeman."
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** 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 [[CrapsackWorld simply beat him up till he was hospitalised]]. BribeBackfire Backfire?
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* A rather bleakly humorous version is mentioned in JohnLeCarre's ''[[TheQuestForKarla Smiley's People]]''. A CIA station in Switzerland tried to bribe a local professor so that they could run wires through his property to bug the Soviet embassy. The professor took the money and [[LawfulNeutral promptly reported everything to the local police]], who were embarrassed no end. Turns out the CIA had already talked to them, and they were looking forward to their promised portion of the intelligence gathered.
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* In an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David tries to bribe a pharmacist to cut in line to get medicine for his wife. The pharmacist takes extreme offense at this.
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** In an episode when Springfield enacted prohibition, Fat Tony attempts to bribe Rex Banner, but doesn't work and decides to stick to smuggling heroin from now on.
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* Chevy Chase's attempts to do this in ''SpiesLikeUs'' don't do him much good.
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* Chevy Chase's attempts to do this bribe his way to a passing test grade in ''SpiesLikeUs'' don't do him much good.
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I\'ve seen several examples where someone takes the bribe but does not follow through with what they are being bribed for, pretending that they never saw it in the first place.
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*MalcolmInTheMiddle Hal gets caught using his genius son to count cards in a vegas casino. He tries to bribe his way out, the chief security officer thanks him for the money but still bans him. When Hal asks for the money back the guard is confused as to what he is talking about.
** Card counting isn't technically illegal. However a casino has the right to choose who is allowed entry. People who actually do win big for example.
** Card counting isn't technically illegal. However a casino has the right to choose who is allowed entry. People who actually do win big for example.
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** I'm not sure whether this is a subversion or inversion but in one episode when Mr Burns is imprisoned for art theft a guard lists the things he is allowed inside. One of these is a bag labeled bribe, he empties the contents into his pocket but denies there was anything in it.
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* ''{{Shameless}}'' in one episode a cop is [[CorruptCop accusing Lip of assault]], so they try to bribe him. He takes the bribe to drop the charge[[spoiler: of bribing a police officer.]]
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* ''{{Shameless}}'' in one episode a cop is [[CorruptCop accusing Lip of assault]], so they try to bribe him. He takes the bribe to drop the charge[[spoiler: charge [[spoiler: of bribing a police officer.]]
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** It is incredibly stupid to try and bribe Vimes. Not only is he a posterboy for LawfullGood played well, he's married to the richest woman in the city. He has no use at all for money.
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** It is incredibly stupid to try and bribe Vimes. Not only is he a posterboy for LawfullGood LawfulGood played well, he's married to the richest woman in the city. He has no use at all for money.
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** It is incredibly stupid to try and bribe Vimes. Not only is he a posterboy for LawfullGood played well, he's married to the richest woman in the city. He has no use at all for money.
** An earlier case described the palace guards as unbribable, only because the [[MagnificentBastard Patrician]] could outbid anyone. In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' we hear that the offical procedure for palace guards when someone tries to bribe their way into the palace is to accept the bribe and take the subject to the waiting room. And then bolt all the doors.
** An earlier case described the palace guards as unbribable, only because the [[MagnificentBastard Patrician]] could outbid anyone. In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' we hear that the offical procedure for palace guards when someone tries to bribe their way into the palace is to accept the bribe and take the subject to the waiting room. And then bolt all the doors.
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* In ''{{Preacher}}'', Jesse Custer's first meating, er, ''meeting'' with meat baron and CorruptCorporateExecutive 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 [[DisproportionateRetribution throws him out a window]].
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* In ''{{Preacher}}'', Jesse Custer's first meating, er, ''meeting'' with meat baron and CorruptCorporateExecutive CorruptHick 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 [[DisproportionateRetribution throws him out a window]].
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* In ''{{Preacher}}'', Jesse Custer's first meating, er, ''meeting'' with meat baron and CorruptCorporateExecutive 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 [[DisproportionateRetribution throws him out a window]].
* In ''{{Preacher}}'', Jesse Custer's first meating, er, ''meeting'' with meat baron and CorruptCorporateExecutive 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 [[DisproportionateRetribution throws him out a window]].
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** And one more from Homer (he really seems to have bad lucks with bribes), who tries to bribe his way out of a bunch of municipal fines. Unfortunately, the clerk who accepts bribes is away from his window, so Homer impatiently leaves the money at the window in a paper bag labeled "BRIBE." Unsurprisingly, he gets caught.
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** And one more from Homer (he really seems to have bad lucks luck with bribes), who when he tries to bribe his way out of a bunch of municipal fines. Unfortunately, the clerk who accepts bribes is away from his window, so Homer impatiently leaves the money at the window in a paper bag labeled "BRIBE." Unsurprisingly, he gets caught.
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** And one more from Homer (he really seems to have bad lucks with bribes), who tries to bribe his way out of a bunch of municipal fines. Unfortunately, the clerk who accepts bribes is away from his window, so Homer impatiently leaves the money at the window in a paper bag labeled "BRIBE." Unsurprisingly, he gets caught.
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That was stupid. Sorry,
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*** This Troper, living in a suburb in Sweden remember a "Scandal" in the local press when a local politician was charged and founded guilty of Attemted Bribery after he "jokingly" (according to himself) offered a recently bought bottle of Whisky to the cop that stopped him for speeding.
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*** This Troper, living in a suburb in Sweden remember a "Scandal" in the local press when a local politician was charged and founded guilty of Attemted Bribery after he "jokingly" (according to himself) offered a recently bought bottle of Whisky to the cop that stopped him for speeding.
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** Only because Walter could be anyone (to be precise, a cop). Saul is glad to take a bribe once he discovers he's a drug dealer.
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* There's an inversion in the VorkosiganSaga novel ''Memory''. It is [[spoiler: General Haroche's]] attempt to bribe Miles that gives him the clue he needs to figure out who sabotaged Illyan's memory chip. This later becomes a standard investigative technique for Miles, when he suspects that there is something underhanded going on, but doesn't know what, or by whom: start trolling for bribes, and see who offers one to him.
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*** 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 then those top ten.
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Gosh, what a sticky situation you're in! Oh, if only you could just buy your way out of this situation...
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Gosh, what a sticky situation you're in! Oh, if only you could just [[BuyThemOff buy your way out of this situation...
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* Max Bialystock in ''TheProducers'' actually [[SpringtimeForHitler deliberately invokes this]] to offend a theatre critic.
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* Max Bialystock in ''TheProducers'' actually [[SpringtimeForHitler deliberately invokes this]] to offend a theatre theater critic.
