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Published: 20 August, 2010, 13:15
Edited: 21 August, 2010, 04:39


Latvian media speculate that the growing number of cyclists fined for riding drunk comes from a scam where policemen allow busted car drivers be documented as cyclists for a bribe.

 
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Marzipan6 August 21, 2010, 04:01 quote
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RT, has anything good also happened in Latvia recently? Or, just like with its Baltic neighbours, the only things that happen are Nazi marches, apartheid oppressions, underpaid women, traveling statues, persecution of anti-fascists, glorification of swastikas, anti-Euro sentiments, dodgy doctors and drunken cyclists?

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