To give or NOT to give “LA CENA”

rey

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If you are being stopped this much (every month) and giving them $500 - $1000 pesos, I would say that there is a problem. Under what circumstances are you being stopped every month?
Driving while being US CITIZEN
 

rey

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I understand your position.
And agree with much of what you wrote in your post.

I have been stopped multiple times while traveling about in Santo Domingo.
Even one time while I was in a taxi when the taxi driver had done nothing wrong.

I disagree with the majority of posters here.

The exception being RayRay.
He is a stand up guy.
The rest are talking from their position of privilege.

What I have noticed...is that within the last two years random checkpoints on the street have stopped.
And when they are conducted they are strictly business and focused on law enforcement.

Before...all requests for food would be met with "I am hungry too.
Hop in the car and lets go get something to eat".
The reply is "I can't I am working." I would follow up with: "It is hot out today.
"Can I buy you a coke? I bet there is a colmado close".
20 DOP in hand and I am off.

I have been arrested three times and appeared before the fiscalía.
Beat the rap each and every time.
I keep my abogada on speed dial...
Thank you !

Thanks
 

keepcoming

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I am curious where in Santo Domingo you are getting stopped so much. I am a foreigner (they would have no way of knowing I am a DR citizen) and I have never been stopped in Santo Domingo. My brother's wife also drives a lot, she is a foreigner and has never been stopped. Is it one particular area that you are being stopped or various locations?
 
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Who says anyone is driving illegally in the Dominican Republic?

I just love now some posters in DR1 make these assumptions.
Function of privilege I guess.

Remember people...your experiences do not invalidate anyone else's.
Your experiences do not need to mirror anyone else's.
Open your minds and take in the shared information.
 
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He’s not that big an exception. We haven’t been stopped in years in Santo Domingo. Probably 10 years. Last time I was stopped, I was alone on my way to lunch with MountainAnnie. I looked at him and told him I didn’t understand (in English). He looked annoyed and waved me to leave.


I have been stopped, although not in the past years. I always smile. Ask them about their day and their family. I say God bless you all. I treat them like any other person who has stopped me on the street to chat. And they have always let me go. Never ever have I paid.

If they are on the street with no intentions of stopping me, I always honk, smile, and wave. I understand that being a woman, maybe things work differently. And I do speak Spanish. But for me, kindness always wins.
 

windeguy

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I thought a USA drivers license was only valid for a month in DR. If so you should count yourself lucky that's all you pay. They are aware of you and you're an easy target driving illegally.
It is true that a foreign drivers license for those entering on a tourist card like someone from the US is valid for 30 days in the DR.
Nobody seems to care how long you drive on it.
 

franco1111

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Nah. I read most or part of it. All bs. None that is accurate in my world. I will stay out of it. My comment about the y'all is left over from when you first came on here. Sounds like bs too. You be from the Bronx? That's not where y'all comes from. Anyway. Hope you have great aventures here. You talk a lot.
 

rey

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Nah. I read most or part of it. All bs. None that is accurate in my world. I will stay out of it. My comment about the y'all is left over from when you first came on here. Sounds like bs too. You be from the Bronx? That's not where y'all comes from. Anyway. Hope you have great aventures here. You talk a lot.
Jaajajajaj …..ok , go on son
 

El Hijo de Manolo

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I have been arrested three times and appeared before the fiscalía.
Beat the rap each and every time.
I keep my abogada on speed dial...
I've never been associated with the PN or the fiscalia in 19 years, with the exception of sending over pies during Christmas season. I don't even know someone who was ever arrested here. Maybe you need to take a look at things if you have to keep a lawyer on speed dial due to all of this sketchy activity that keeps getting you arrested
 

SKY

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I've never been associated with the PN or the fiscalia in 19 years, with the exception of sending over pies during Christmas season. I don't even know someone who was ever arrested here. Maybe you need to take a look at things if you have to keep a lawyer on speed dial due to all of this sketchy activity that keeps getting you arrested
When you can't keep your mouth shut here you can end up in bad situations............
 

franco1111

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Jaajajajaj …..ok , go on son
Jjj. You're not my father. One thing I have learned in 12 years here is that everybody experiences things different in this country. Just because I have one experience does not mean it will go that way for anyone else. One example is recently people posted about bad experiences with car rentals. I just rented two cars this week in Punta Cana and everything went great. Not always the case, of course. But, for me no problem. Does not invaldate other people's experiences. Just means they different.

As are mine with the police. And, whatever else you are raving about. I just noticed you posted like four things in the last two days. I don't have time to read them. Maybe you can have a nice conversation with the other long winded poster here, son.