Whoa ... that must have been scarey. I've done a fair amount of driving in JA and have been pulled over several times. Sometimes it's just been their routine inspection stops ... other times, they may have clocked me with their radar (oops, lead foot). I've been fortunate never to have gotten a ticket, but I've been threatened with a 'very large fine'. I will say that being a woman seems to have worked in my favor (and no, I don't give favors), and sometimes my time in Jamaica has been on official business, and in those cases, when I tell them that I will need to have them talk to my contact at the Embassy and explain exactly what they'd like to fine me with - the police have always backed off......and frankly it's because they don't really want to write me a citation .... they want to get paid off individually - just like the $300 you forked over. Other times when I've been pulled over, they've been more interested in getting my phone number and letting me know what time they get off work. Once, I was pulled over and the first thing the cop said to me was, "well, you look like you work out at the gym"..... I knew at that moment this was more of a courtesy stop than a violation. Really sorry Spanky that you had to go through that ..... but thank God you and your wife were not incarcerated .... I hear it's no vacation behind Jamaican bars.