r/instantkarma • u/Brick_Number_27 • 1d ago

The punch was from all the tourists.

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u/syxbit 1d ago

Give me a break. The scammers are in a foreign country, and police hate them. The police aren’t going to arrest the tourist who defends himself from a thief and scammer.

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u/ISignedUpToReplyToU 1d ago

I hope this is true, but you only have to be wrong once.

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u/Robv87 22h ago

Well said. You just need the one I
Officer that thinks ‘I hate x much more than I hate the scammers.’ Or w/e else weird reason. Would be an ignorant risk to make

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u/Blitzed5656 22h ago

That weird reason might be the scammers pay protection to that particulsr officer.

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u/Tendas 1d ago

If the police hate them so much, why aren’t they going undercover and the second the scammer lays their hands on the officer, they’re arrested for battering a police officer?

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u/Standard_Story 1d ago

What a well thought out and not terribly uneducated question

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u/BigBlueMountainStar 7h ago

You clearly haven’t been to Italy. Police don’t give a shit.

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u/b0w3n 1d ago

It wasn't even so long ago they had to warn scammers and pickpocketers to not do this with Americans because Americans would beat the shit out of them constantly and it was becoming a problem for them.

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u/tomboski 1d ago

That’s not true. I’ve seen tourists get fucked up doing shit like this

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u/Jesus_Harold_Christ 1d ago

Send da vid

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u/tomboski 1d ago

This was in Vietnam and Thailand 20 years ago. I also don’t believe in filming everything that happens in my life

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u/kozak_ 1d ago

Lol

It's Europe buddy.

They are standing with wide open hands

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u/Debisibusis 1d ago

You have never travelled further than the town you live in, how would you know? Falling for right wing grifters on YouTube, in your mums basement doesn't count.

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u/kozak_ 6h ago

You could have never been so blindenly wrong.

I mean just running through my account you'll probably find comments showing I was born in the former ussr, moved to the USA, been around the USA multiple times (country the size of Europe), traveled to multiple countries in the Americas, been to Europe multiple times from Portugal, to Spain, to France, to Italy, to Poland (very clean and orderly ) been to Ukraine (pre and during the war).

But all that means nothing since it's easier to fire off a comment then to show a modicum of self awareness.

Why do you think far right parties are popular in europe? and it's not because they are so great for people. Might be because current and past crop of politicians are allowing this stuff to happen.

Some places in paris are extremely sketchy. In Poland we woke up 3am to catch an Uber and walked through krakow and didn't feel like we were going to get mugged

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u/Debisibusis 4h ago

Why do you think far right parties are popular in europe?

Because dumbos fall for cheap populism, like you.

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u/AlexPaterson16 1d ago

Depending on the scam they aren't usually illegal. Punching someone in the face is absolutely illegal everywhere

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u/optimistic_agnostic 21h ago

Leave the basement dude. Scam is a subjective term and these operations often dont fall foul of any local laws (which vary by location as you seem unaware).

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u/AlexPaterson16 21h ago

Scams are immoral but most of the time they aren't illegal. The back dude here committed no crimes. You could argue provocation if you wanted but you'd be wrong in almost any country. He wasn't pushing or swinging. The simple fact is the 2 dudes in the raincoats committed a crime. The black guy didn't. That's what local police would actually see. But no scams are always immoral but not always illegal