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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Why not? Other communities with business that they may not care for (Ramsay and Lillydale as a prime example) could see this as an opportunity to leverage this example for their own benefit, making it a form of extortion.
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Where in the story did it say that the community made some kind of threat to get the money so that their "example" would inspire others to acts of skulduggery? As far as I can tell, the company made the offer to the community, not vice versa, so the characterization of this as a bribe is much more in line with the facts.
Not that I really care, as bribery by corporations is the way business is done everywhere. Like fotze said, problems go away when you just write a bigger cheque.