Is that picture going to get Irlan in trouble ?
The most repulsive thing is author doesn't do that because of malevolence. He just honestly doesn't care.
It's funny that probably being a type of person that I dislike so much, may be actually helping him to write a story I like so much.
It would be extortion if Irlan had (say) planted a kilo of heroin in his bags and then demanded money.
The author may have just not cared, but this kind of behaviour makes good people less helpful just out of a need for self-preservation - you never know if that random person you've just bent the rules for won't do something that'll cost you your job, or your freedom.
You give bribe, I buy you bear. You give no bribe, I buy you two bears.
(Or insert any other joke here, they write themselves.)
I very sincerely, on behalf of my country and Obama, my state and Arnold Schwarzenegger, myself and my family beseeched her to be lenient in her judgment.
Schwarzenegger was governor until 2011, which would presumably date his escapades to sometime between 2009 and 2011. Hopefully it's long enough ago to clear Irlan or anyone else mentioned or photographed in the post of any problems should it get traced back to them.
Great story, by the way. Well told.