A $6 Bribe Turned This Drunken Mexican Teen Into an Overnight Internet Celebrity Rafa Fernandez De Castro - Fusion
go to original April 29, 2016

A young woman has become an overnight social media sensation after getting caught on video trying to bribe a cop with $6 to get out of an apparent drunk driving incident.

And no, it’s not Lindsey Lohan.

It’s 18-year-old Mexican college student Lorena Daniela Aguirre, a young woman in a small cocktail dress who got caught behind the wheel while apparently intoxicated in the central state of Guanajuato. She reportedly crashed into several cars after dodging a pedestrian carrying a baby and then, too drunk to speak coherently, tried to bribe the cops with a 100-peso bill (which actually is even less than $6 given the plummeting value of the peso).

The cops declined the bribe and eventually forced Aguirre into a waiting patrol car. She was reportedly with two male friends. One of them can be seen in the video trying to flee the crash scene.

But that’s where the story begins. The whole incident was filmed by a local news channel and uploaded to YouTube and… BOOM! a new star was born.

The video of the mess instantly went viral and was given its own hashtag #Lady100pesos. (Que Foquin)

Although this video was produced by a news agency, it’s similar to others that are being recorded and uploaded to shame those in the country’s elite who think they can misbehave with total impunity. Mexicans are increasingly turning to smartphones and social media tools like Periscope to perform a new digital form of vigilante justice.

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