{"id":972,"date":"2006-05-31T05:51:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T10:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hot-ticket\/"},"modified":"2006-05-31T05:51:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T10:51:48","slug":"hot-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hot-ticket","title":{"rendered":"Hot ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article from Forbes about the roots of corrupt behavior<\/a>. It explores the matter via the parking tickets unpaid by UN diplomats in NYC:<\/p>\n

Scandinavian countries, which perennially rank among the least corrupt in the corruption index, had the fewest unpaid tickets [between 1998 and 2005]. There were just 12 from the 66 diplomats from Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Almost all of these tickets went to one bad Finn. <\/p>\n

Chad and Bangladesh, at the bottom of the corruption index, were among the worst scofflaws. They shirked 1,243 and 1,319 tickets, respectively, in spite of the fact that their UN missions were many times smaller than those of the Scandinavians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The last time I heard about Chad and cars was when they fought with Libya and used Toyota pickups instead of tanks or APCs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find out what Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer decided to do<\/a> about the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article from Forbes about the roots of corrupt behavior. It explores the matter via the parking tickets unpaid by UN diplomats in NYC: Scandinavian countries, which perennially rank among the least corrupt in the corruption index, had the fewest unpaid tickets [between 1998 and 2005]. There were just 12 from the 66 diplomats … <\/p>\n

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