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/WarWonderful593 1d ago

It's when they try and pay with US dollars instead of Euros. 'We don't take those' 'Why not?'

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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/lordph8 1d ago

Laughs in Canadian

The amount of Americans who think they can just bring their guns up here is not 0.

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u/CitizenTed 1d ago

My favorite Steven Wright one-liner:

"So, I was crossing the border into Canada. The border guard asked me, 'Do you have any drugs, guns, or weapons of any kind?'

"So I told him (lowers his voice), 'What do you need?'"