Well, Poles are known for the unbelieveable resourcefullness. Take this, for example: we've just recently had a national election here: one for the new government, and two weeks later for the new president of Poland. And during these, some people started to advertise through 'Allegro' (Poland's most popular e-shopping center, like eBay) that they would sell their voices !
One wishing to buy the voices had to pay 50PLN for it (about 12.5 $), and the seller was even willing to make a photo (using a camera in cellphone) of the voting-form filled by him/her
Of course we have fair election, so these people wanted to sell only their own voices, it wasn't like you could have bought 50 thousand of these
(hot stuff though, wouldn't suprise me
).
It was cool in my opinion.
If you wonder how it all concluded - the e-auction was of course quickly erased from public. But who knows what really happended, and how many people did such things
It was just an example, first one that crossed my mind.
The story about PKO-Dollars you mentioned is one referring to the communism era in Poland (years 1945-89) and it is much easier to find a story from that time, that from nowadays. These stories from the past are so numerous, that You could start entire new forum about that, and, suprisingly, among many frightening ones there are also migty many of crazy-funny ones.
It's just too much. For example: just try to imagine, that you are walking down the street, and feel thirsty. You find a drinks-selling-machine, that is coin operated. But guess what - if you want a drink (warm "lemonade"), there is no can to drink from - you insert a coin, and the fluid starts to fill... the glass that is CHAINED to the machine (I mean the metal chain connects the glass to it). Forget the hygene - noone steals the glass, that's what counts
eeech. just too many memories...
Cheers.