...it would appear we don't...
A few years back a group of us operating at a "foreign far east airport" were sent a rather naieve bloke to help us out. This airport was high security and had people dressed liked air cadets on every corner of the building checking passes. We thought we'd have a little fun with the new bloke.
He mentioned he was just off to the public toilets, so I quickly quipped "don't forget to pay the toilet attendants" (ie. the blokes stood around on every corner). He laughed nervously, not sure whether I was kidding or not and departed. By the time he'd got back I'd tipped off another member of our group and she 'checked' he'd payed the staff for using the toilet. He nervously said yes, implying he still didn't believe us.
An hour later, I told the boss of our group and he called all 5 of us into the office and said the airport manager had heard another westerner hadn't paid toilet tax and that he was fed up with it - threatening to speak to our consulate. The boss asked each of us individually if we were guilty and the bloke in question denied it, as we all did. After he asked us all he flippantly said "right then - we'll just have to check the CCTV footage and I'll go and tell the airport manager to f*** off"
'Guilty' bloke went white and quickly left the room, grabbing me outside and said "I did go then BUT I didn't DO anything - I just washed my hands". Battling to keep a straight face I advised him to grab the boss quickly and tell him so we could diffuse this potential diplomatic incident.
He spoke to the boss who voiced his anger mildly and told the bloke to report to the airport managers office immediately and explain his actions. Bloke disappeared nervously and we planned to intercept him on the way - problem was he took a different route to the one we expected and we lost him in the airport - we JUST managed to get to him as he was about to knock on the airport manager's office door.
We made up an excuse as to why he couldn't see the airport manager there and then and, in the interim, several security guards benefitted from mysterious 'toilet tax' payments before we eventually told him.
