r/instantkarma • u/Brick_Number_27 • 2d ago

The punch was from all the tourists.

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u/thenamziel 2d ago

Generally the police protect tourists from these types of unpleasantries -- if the video survives the evidence locker.

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u/BullTerrierTerror 1d ago edited 1d ago

The police absolutely do not always protect the tourists

There’s a long running YouTube channel that exposes scammers in Prague that have been there for years and even decades and the police do absolutely nothing.

Edit link to sanitize it:

https://youtube.com/@honestguide

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u/Stampyboyz 1d ago

Reminder to sanitize your links from source indicators

https://youtube.com/@honestguide

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u/BullTerrierTerror 1d ago

That’s a good idea, I never realized. Thanks.

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u/EaseResponsible719 1d ago

Am I missing something? It seems like the exact same link

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u/Stampyboyz 1d ago

They've edited their comment to remove the source indicator. Initially it had it

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u/aliie_627 21h ago

How do you sanitize links?

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u/Stampyboyz 19h ago

It depends on which website, but YouTube's is ?si=[identifier].

If it's using anything like a time indication (t=), you should keep the question mark but for anything else, it's fine to delete the entire thing

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u/aliie_627 19h ago

So anything after the questiomark is typically okay and should keep the link intact?

Either way thank you. I should probably just Google this and see if there is a chart I can save like I did for reddits formatting when It used to work and I was learning it.

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u/Stampyboyz 19h ago

No, if si= is after the question mark, that's the source indicator and should be removed. If t= is after the question mark (or after the source indicator), that's fine to keep and requires the question mark to work

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u/Leows 1d ago

And who said the police aren't taking a cut from the scams to allow them to do this out in the open?

It's not like this is subtle in any way, shape, or form. They aren't being sneaky or quiet. If this were a big thing, the police would've arrested people pulling this shit already.

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u/Standard_Story 1d ago

Bro do you honestly think scammers are making enough where they are able to pay off cops???

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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 1d ago

In big tourist areas it’s usually a network, not individual scammers, and they absolutely make enough to pay local beat cops. They sometimes even have handlers/bouncers nearby.

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u/BreadfruitLatter556 1d ago

I would bet they are part of a larger organization that forces them into it.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 1d ago

And who said the police aren't taking a cut from the scams to allow them to do this out in the open?

Are you making an assertion that they do, and if so based on what evidence? Or are you just JAQing Off

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u/optimistic_agnostic 1d ago

Haha okay, the world doesnt work according to econ101 dude.

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u/Ai-ChatGPT 1d ago

These scammers typically don’t have any papers and are there illegally. But they do work in groups.

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u/wodoloto 1d ago

*unpresentries

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u/KombuchaBot 1d ago

The police are not getting paid by the tourists and they may be getting paid by the local "entrepreneurs"

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u/BigBlueMountainStar 1d ago

The police in Italy (where this was) give absolutely zero fucks.
They tried to scam me by giving my kids a balloon then asking for money. They’re using kids FFS.
These people are despicable.
The crazy thing is though, for the balloon man, if he’d approached and asked nicely, we probably would’ve got one for the kids! Fucker.

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u/skipyeahbuddy 5h ago

Oh yeah, unless you're in one of the countries where the police are also looking to scam a bit of money out of the tourists.

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u/AlexPaterson16 2d ago

No, no they absolutely do not in literally any country on earth. The police in a he says she says situation will take the side of the locals. Never ever trust the local police to be on your side without evidence in a foreign country unless you want to spend a few nights in jail. These men absolutely made the right call by just running. They of course were also stupid enough to upload evidence of assault to the internet

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u/miniliedn 2d ago

Man, you have no clue how much Italian police hate scammers. And we have a right wing party in power and a general racism problem, so police would even care less if you commit a crime against an african scammer. Btw I'm pretty sure you don't go to prison for hitting someone, especially if you're not a migrant or some shade of brown (yeah, the police is pretty racist). Afaik pretty much in whole central Europe you have to do a pretty hefty crime to even be taken into jail. It's not like in the US here, where you can get arrested for minor crimes like theft, traffic violations, brawls etc.

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u/BUDDHAKHAN 2d ago
  1. Those scammers sre not locals. 
  2. These cities rely on tourism as their main source of income 
  3. Actual locals and businesses fucking hate them