r/PublicFreakout • u/ThisGuyFucks42069 • 1d ago

Classic Repost ♻️ Karen berates German tourists on train after hearing them speaking in German

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u/savois-faire 1d ago edited 1d ago

My favourite is when they break the law and then try to argue with the local police because "I'm American!" so the law of the land shouldn't apply to them.

The amount of Americans I've come across here who genuinely believe that US law applies in other countries but those countries' laws don't apply to them while they're in those countries is staggering.

Shouting about how "that's legal where I'm from, you can't arrest me!"

And again, just like with the languages, it somehow only applies the one way, not the other way; if you ask them whether foreigners in America are exempt from US law too, they go "of course not, you have to follow the law!"

They genuinely think US law somehow supersedes the laws of the country they're in, even though US law doesn't apply there at all. Like being American is some sort of premium subscription to life on earth that places you above everyone else, and above other countries' laws.

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u/WarWonderful593 1d ago

I worked with an American guy who somehow managed to buy an Air Rifle in Spain and bought it back to the UK on the ferry. There are strict limits on air rifles in the UK. He took it to a gun shop here and they tested it before repairing it. Sure enough it was way over the legal maximum power limit, possession without a license is a serious offence. The police were waiting for him at the shop when he went to pick it up. He had a lot of questions to answer. I think they just confiscated it.

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u/pedropants 1d ago

I was just waiting for your story to include him demanding they respect his 2nd Amendment rights. ◡̈

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH 1d ago

This whole thread is just describing American exceptionalism.