Ive lost count of the times the AMET have stopped me/tried to impound my car, etc., for a variety of made up or real reasons including "marbete falsificao" (marbete was totally legit)x2. ,"Passing red light" (some true, some made up), "Por no tener seguro" (when the reason I didnt have my card was that some other AMET took it and never gave it back), "No tener camisa puesto" (which was while I had an open container, that wasnt an issue) and "por ser freco", among others. Ive never paid a bribe but have been asked numerous times, and on more than one occasion have seen people pay.
They jumped in my car and made me drive to the cuartel once when the marbete had to be renewed, and when we arrived tried to take my keys, I told them no way, and there were three of them taking turns trying to get my keys, and then telling me how they were each respectively going to metermelo sin vaselina, when the colonel arrived. This went on for probably an hour and a half till the colonel got there, and they were all chomping at the bit to tell him why I had to be screwed for not handing over my keys and followed him to a back office, meanwhile I was standing outside with nobody around, my keys in my hand, and my car outside. I got in my car and drove off. Man those AMETs were a bunch of retards