Difference between 7 days rop's and handing over 200 beer tokens vs a wee 'chat' with the badge or troop S/Sgt and a couple of bruises....
Most lads back in the 80's army would take the chat, which 99% of the times pretty much settled the whole issue, and didn’t waste the beer tokens.
There as also the 'dice' (a pair of large fluffy dice) which the AO used to have along with a book of excuses, if your excuse/lie wasn’t in the book (it soon went in though) you got away with the crime, if it was then you got to roll the dice. Throw a double 6 and you were home free, any other combo left the first number being multiplied by the second number to make up the number of extra duties coming your way.
The rumours that the dice were weighted to favour the number 5 were never proved...