They can just as easily be signals of corruption. I have a friend who owns a bar on a beach in Malaysia. He isn't willing to pay the requested bribes to the loc

They can just as easily be signals of corruption. I have a friend who owns a bar on a beach in Malaysia. He isn't willing to pay the requested bribes to the local cops, so every winter they douse it in gasoline and burn it to the ground. He rebuilds every year; it costs less than the bribes.