Not entirely positive that this happened. I mean the Americans beating pickpockets. I’m sure it could have happened, but I live in France and was here and never heard about this…
I agree, this is posted as news when it’s likely anecdotal or even fabricated. It plays on the American self-image as John Wayne types, when everyone in Europe knows they’re usually not very streetwise and walk around with maps and cameras talking loudly.
The other comments here are quick to jump in with opinions about how Americans don’t take any shit, implying European simps just roll over for these pesky pilferers.
It’s a real Don’t Mess with Texas vibe based on another dodgy blog article.
Not directly related to the content of your post, but I wanted to point out that “Don’t Mess With Texas” originated as an pro-environment slogan encouraging Texans to pack out their own trash instead of littering in the wilderness and from their cars.
Somehow it got coopted into some kind of Texan tough guy mentality (probably George W. Bush’s fault). But at the beginning it was an environmental protection slogan.
Americans have revealed themselves to be the biggest simps on the planet by rolling over for the Tangerine Turd. They are literally waiting for someone else to rescue them at this point, even while their own citizens are being thrown off cargo planes and into concentration camps.
Not entirely positive that this happened. I mean the Americans beating pickpockets. I’m sure it could have happened, but I live in France and was here and never heard about this…
There is a Medium post (https://scribe.rip/the-bad-influence/americans-in-paris-ready-to-rumble-with-pick-pocketers-f62b169abccd) but there isn’t a single French news source (that I can easily find) related to this ever happening.
I’m French, worked in Paris during the Olympics, and I’m pretty sure that the Medium “article” is fake news.
And anyway, a lot of Americans visited Paris every year before the Olympics, so I think that we’d have heard about this before if it was a thing.
I agree, this is posted as news when it’s likely anecdotal or even fabricated. It plays on the American self-image as John Wayne types, when everyone in Europe knows they’re usually not very streetwise and walk around with maps and cameras talking loudly.
The other comments here are quick to jump in with opinions about how Americans don’t take any shit, implying European simps just roll over for these pesky pilferers.
It’s a real Don’t Mess with Texas vibe based on another dodgy blog article.
Not directly related to the content of your post, but I wanted to point out that “Don’t Mess With Texas” originated as an pro-environment slogan encouraging Texans to pack out their own trash instead of littering in the wilderness and from their cars.
Somehow it got coopted into some kind of Texan tough guy mentality (probably George W. Bush’s fault). But at the beginning it was an environmental protection slogan.
Americans have revealed themselves to be the biggest simps on the planet by rolling over for the Tangerine Turd. They are literally waiting for someone else to rescue them at this point, even while their own citizens are being thrown off cargo planes and into concentration camps.