The other little problem is that she would have been dragged out of the car and thrown on the street where she would have been cuffed . . . if not additionally tazed. Old jokes just don’t have any life no more.
Most people don’t have much tolerance for having a loaded gun pointed at their head, which is what would have happened here.
I used to live in Kenya, back in the day, and it was more or less routine for a group of soldiers to toss a log across a country road to set up and informal toll-booth.
It was all casual enough, but the guy who came to your window for the money would point his rifle at your head, just to make the point. Five dollars American or $10 worth of local currency would get you a friendly wave, the log moved, and you would be on your way. Five miles down the road, you would get to do it all again.
It got to where it was routine. You would start to recognize the “soldiers”, and they would smile and wave. But always there was that gun in your ear, and you always, always had to pay. You never got into the car without at least $20 American, in fives.
One day, an old college girlfriend was visiting from America, and we rolled up to a roadblock. I didn’t think anything of it, and handed over the money, and we were on our way. A couple of miles down the road, I noticed that she wasn’t talking, and I looked over and she was white as a sheet and she said, “What... just... happened?” I had to think about it for a minute before I figured out what she was upset about.
You can get used to almost anything...