Live the same

up until this point I was sure that today was Saturday, and I don't use social networks on Saturdays. And no, I don't have Shabbat, it just happened that way 😁 So I'm in a hurry to correct myself and write at least something, I'll add a couple of photos and we'll consider that I tried 😅

Continuing the topic of banned substances (drugs), I remembered another story. It didn’t happen to me, but I was slightly involved—just a tiny bit. From my side, there was nothing criminal, hahaha. In the Dominican Republic, drugs are one of the most serious offenses under the law, and they come with long prison sentences. And Dominican prisons are the last place you’d want to end up (actually, any prison is a bad place to be—unless maybe it’s in Finland or Sweden))), I’ll explain more about that later. But one guy did manage to end up there. I didn’t know him well, but our social circles occasionally overlapped.

Considering the level of corruption there—which is completely out in the open, and where police often straight-up offer you to pay a bribe—it’s actually hard to end up in prison for something like that if you have at least some money. But this guy made a big mistake. Probably, being in that laid-back atmosphere for a long time, combined with frequent marijuana use, made him overly careless. The point is, he didn’t leave the illegal stuff at home when he was going somewhere, and they found it in his pockets right at the airport. Theoretically, he might’ve still been able to pay someone off even there, but it would have cost much more—and as far as I know, he didn’t have any money at all...