Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:30:00 PST
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Exporting

Seems this Russian wine exporter was trying to get his product past a
bureaucrat who insisted on a payoff.   The bureaucrat quoted a figure of
$10,000 to let the shipment past his checkpoint.  The exporter replied
that the price seemed a little high -- as for only $2000 he could have
the bureaucrat killed.

The wine made it through just fine.