REPORT: A young woman has become an overnight social media sensation after getting caught on video trying to bribe a cop with $6 to get out of an apparent drunk driving incident.
And no, it’s not Lindsey Lohan.
It’s 18-year-old Mexican college student Lorena Daniela Aguirre, a young woman in a small cocktail dress who got caught behind the wheel while apparently intoxicated in the central state of Guanajuato. She reportedly crashed into several cars after dodging a pedestrian carrying a baby and then, too drunk to speak coherently, tried to bribe the cops with a 100-peso bill (which actually is even less than $6 given the plummeting value of the peso).
The video of the mess instantly went viral and was given its own hashtag #Lady100pesos.
Although this video was produced by a news agency, it’s similar to others that are being recorded and uploaded to shame those in the country’s elite who think they can misbehave with total impunity. Mexicans are increasingly turning to smartphones and social media tools like Periscope to perform a new digital form of vigilante justice.
Most Mexicans are shaming Lady 100 pesos but there are also many who are turning what should be a life-changing lesson in reckless stupidity into a celebrity fantasy.
Aguirre, thanks to her good looks, has become wildly popular on the Mexican internet. A Facebook public figure page created in the aftermath of the video has garnered more than 200,000 followers in just a few days. Another Facebook page, claiming to be the real Aguirre, has over 90,000 followers. Both pages have become a gathering of men drooling over Aguirre, comparing her to a Mexican pop star known as Belinda and engaging in a heated online debate about who’s hotter.
