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[damnthosejs]

 

[alvin314159]

Yes, you can use it for 3 months after your arrival date. Have your passport ready also.

 

[psx0529]

Oh and if your license is in another language other than English (you never know...LOL) then you gotta have a translation handy

 

[sadikmac]

Aside from what they're saying is true..

Just an additional..

AFAIK, if you speak straight english (with thick slang) or any other foreign language or no tagalog at all, you get a FREE PASS from any traffic enforcer thatflags you down. Because they will (a) not understand you much and (b) have an incredibly difficult time speaking to you. Not to underestimate them.. But..Seriously. That's the way it is.


Source: Foreigner classmates, foreign-looking classmates, Fil-Ams, etc.

Hehehe...

 

[damnthosejs]

 

[psx0529]

Originally Posted by damnTHOSEjs

Originally Posted by sadikmac

Aside from what they're saying is true..

Just an additional..

AFAIK, if you speak straight english (with thick slang) or any other foreign language or no tagalog at all, you get a FREE PASS from any traffic enforcer that flags you down. Because they will (a) not understand you much and (b) have an incredibly difficult time speaking to you. Not to underestimate them.. But.. Seriously. That's the way it is.


Source: Foreigner classmates, foreign-looking classmates, Fil-Ams, etc.

Hehehe...

Wouldn't that be the other way around? I would think pulis patola would tell me "gib me sum two handred pipty pesos por my meryenda"...j/p.

thanks guys.

Well, just speak straight out English, and talk hella fast and that'll work out as well (LOL). Knowing a foreign language would really help out as well,like what sadikmac says.

Source: Me
Whenever I feel that a police officer is trying to extort money from me (either I supposedly violated a traffic rule or whatever), I instantly become aforeigner. There was this one time I stopped inside the Glorietta 4 driveway (in Makati) to pick up a friend of mine who was on her way out of the mall. I wasstopped for barely 30 seconds when a rent-a-cop asked me to move on (in Tagalog). I then asked him why he didn't ask the car in front of me to move firstsince it was already there when I got to the driveway...in broken Tagalog. He then started looking at me quizzically and asked me to move again at which pointI started blabbering to him in French.
Afterwards, he left me alone for the next minute until my friend arrived.

I have to say though that I would not have complained much had he asked the car in front of me to move first, and then asked me second...

 

[sadikmac]

@ damnTHOSEjs

^What he said.

I believe minor infractions are given away to foreigners because it must be to safely assume that they are not yet familiar with directions as well as theusual driving scenario here.

 

[drew]

Originally Posted by damnTHOSEjs

Originally Posted by sadikmac

Aside from what they're saying is true..

Just an additional..

AFAIK, if you speak straight english (with thick slang) or any other foreign language or no tagalog at all, you get a FREE PASS from any traffic enforcer that flags you down. Because they will (a) not understand you much and (b) have an incredibly difficult time speaking to you. Not to underestimate them.. But.. Seriously. That's the way it is.


Source: Foreigner classmates, foreign-looking classmates, Fil-Ams, etc.

Hehehe...

Wouldn't that be the other way around? I would think pulis patola would tell me "gib me sum two handred pipty pesos por my meryenda"...j/p.

thanks guys.

Yeah I thought the same way as well.

I should drive in the PI nexttime.