It pays to haggle and sometime budget isn't worth it.

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Recently driving between Bukit Fraser and the Genting I over took a slow car and went over some white lines marking the end of the second lane. Up ahead was a police car and bike with 5 officers standing around. One of them flags me over to the side of the road and walked up to the window.
G'day.
Hello he says, did you know that it is an offense to overtake over those lines.
Yes.
It is a 300mr summons. Can I see your license?
I reach in my pocket, took out my wallet and gave him my Australian license.
He glanced at it and handed it back to me.
Do you want me to give you a summons or would you like to pay now he asked.
I would not like a summons, how much if i pay now?
100mr!
That is too much, would you take 50?
He looks down at his feet, looks up and says,ok, 50.
I give him a 50, he says Thank You, and I drive away as he walked back to his chums.
My wife said she tried to get his number but his bandoleer or strap was covering it.

I always hated the thought of bribes but when confronted, I found it the easy way out.

As a separate item, after more than 6 visits to KL we decided to do an early morning visit to the Batu Caves. Not wanting to drive there from KL city in the morning traffic we found a budget hotel in a group of shops about 1km from the caves just of Jalan Batu Caves.
To cut the story short we were woken at 3.30am by a police raid looking for illegals.
I think the policeman who nearly wore the door when I kicked it open to find out what was happening nearly sh** himself and his off sider said "he's Ausi-Ausi OK OK
no problems, sorry, sorry."

Not funny at the time (and my wife still shakes her head) but it makes me smile now. 

Tom