got pulled over for something ridiculous, and the cop was trying to shake her down. In Mexico, they take your license when you get a ticket and won't give it back until you go to the office and pay the ticket. She told them to go ahead and write the ticket and take her license. When the cop realized they weren't going to get anything from her, they just left. It wasn't worth it for them to go through the trouble of writing a ticket if they weren't going to get a bribe.

They don't actually want to work, they just want a bribe.