Dudes in black uniforms with automatic weapons and tactical sh!t are not to be fucked with.Knowing the CR people pretty well I would not encourage you to pay one guy unless group of guys (2+) not fair fight best not to bring or leave in car or out of site things you might miss. Also highly encourage tourist not to pay cops cash (under table) for tickets regardless how much claim ticket well be. Your car rental place should take care of it and can bill you or you can pay at bank. Just tell officer in English always regardless how fluent you are in Spanish to write ticket please so you can go. Almost always they well let you go with warning and no ticket.
I got pulled over by a local cop once.
He started talking about how he could write me a ticket or I could pay him the fine on the spot.
So I say in Frankenstein Spanish write that ticket motherfooker and I’ll take it and pay it at the bank.
We settled on $10 and off I went.
I spaced on the time I could’ve gotten car jacked driving after dark from Dominical back to the tree farm in the hills above Uvita I was working at. Came up on what looked like a pick up with a mechanical issue that also looked kinda shady so I kept on going and they followed. I killed my headlights at one point while ditching them. I’m not sure if I had a machete in the truck.
Im not sure if things have changed but driving at night was a bad idea in general because of what I liked to call the Tico Road Party.
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