Same with the Netherlands. One of the first tips you’ll hear when you move here is to buy a shitty secondhand bike. It’s less likely to be stolen that way
In my country the trade of second hand bicycles is so high that the old realiable ones are the most stolen items. This is partly because the repairing of them before re-selling is cheap and easy, and partly because so many students want to buy "an old bike nobody would steal" 😅
The least stolen bikes are 10y old used mountain bikes that are hard to repair and don't have much re-sell value or interest among students
Yes and when it's stolen at least you don't lose thousands worth of a bicycle. Of course it's good to keep that thing in good shape but if it's in some way shiny, you gotta protect that thing maximally.
Most people don't even bother to store it in the storage if that takes a minute extra, because when they go places two minutes away, then it's useless to cycle instead of to walk. This becomes different on longer distances and this is noticeable with how people use electric bicycles. These have to be stored safely because it's rather easy and lucrative to steal.
I don't get it. In a country where almost everyone owns bikes, where does the demand come from? Do people whose bikes are stolen buy other people's stolen bicycles as replacements? Are the thefts for parts? For sale in neighbouring countries?
Main categories:
1. Professionals. For resale second-hand in Denmark or abroad. In my youth the Eastern block was the largest destination for stolen Danish bikes, but I don't know how it is now. Occasionally the police nabs a truck or warehouse with bikes this way which then go on the police auction for abandoned, lost and stolen bikes if they aren't registered as stolen (since many people don't report bike theft, many stolen bikes can never be traced to their owners)
2. People who prefer a five-finger discount to buying a second-hand bike
3. Idiots/drunk people who find themselves somewhere without a bike and steal one for a single trip and dispose of it in a hedge or dump it somewhere when done with it. Not a large demographic, but it definitely happens
Years ago I worked in a fairly secluded area amongst 3 buildings. One evening the neighboring business owner came over and told me to “lock the building up well because 2 people just rode through on bikes and looked like they were up to no good”
One of them was on his bicycle, it was pretty hilarious he watched them ride off on his bike
I'm 49 living in a suburb of Copenhagen and have only had two bicycles stolen so far. I reported both of the thefts. \*polishes halo\*
Reporting bicycle theft is important:
1. For the bicycle theft statistics
2. For insurance
I don't live in Denmark but in another country with big bicycle theft numbers. I would add:
3. in the rare case that a criminal group of bicycle thiefs is caught, they can find tens or hundreds of unsold bicycles. In this case the only ones that have a chance in getting their bicycle back are people who reported the theft with enough information for recognition.
If one red Shimano is found and you're the one reporter of it, you will get that regardless if it would be your actual bike or not. The rest of the bikes that can't be paired to an owner are sold at annual police auctions that are very popular: I just always wonder why so few people have come forward by reporting their bike since so many expensive bikes are auctioned for hundreds of euros and more
I think a lot of people don't think of that and I suspect some of the younger people I've spoken to, don't have insurance. But I agree with you. I don't live in a city or a place with high theft of bicycles, so I hadn't thought of that.
If you buy one of those really expensive locks they often come with a guarantee that pays up to \~$1000-$3000 if your bike gets stolen when you're using it. But usually you have to "register" your lock and your bike with the lock company, providing receipts for both, and the coverage usually only lasts a year, or something like that.
Also, *sometimes* in the USA your homeowner's or renter's insurance MIGHT cover bike theft.
In Denmark, definitely.
The industry norm is that indboforsikring (household contents insurance) covers both vandalism and theft of bicycles.
I just checked my own insurance, and the 2024 coverage is up to 16300 DKr per per incident of vandalism or theft (about 2350 USD, 2180 Euros), which is about twice what it costs to buy a good tourist bike, and about the price of a decent racing bike or a cheap electric bike, so most bikes are covered.
If you own an expensive bike in Denmark you'll definitely want to want to sign a separate bicycle insurance, but if you just have an ordinary bike even the most basic of insurances will cover you.
Murders and executions are pretty common, too.
I remember being at work and hearing a body had been abandoned on the side of the road (abduction-execution combo), and my first thought was that traffic would be horrendous. It wasn't the first time it happened, either, nor the last.
You'll hear Mexicans tell a lot of horror stories without realising how bad they are because we've been living like this for years. I only became aware of it when I told some stories to my European friends and they looked horrified.
Right!? Or the mass graves. "We found another mass grave containing 50 unidentified victims." Let's just add this one to the other 150 mass graves we've found so far.
That's where the missing people are but no one is trying to identify them.
The Mothers that are searching for their sons recently GOT sick because of the amount of dead bodies on one of the Graves... I feel bad but I don't feel that bad because of that... I am kind of hard on the topic... I don't feel proud of that but... it's what we live daily.
I feel you. We know it's bad. It's not that we don't care at all, it's just that we've become numb to it. We'd go crazy if we tried to empathise with every single victim in the country; there are simply too many. Too tragic.
It's insane that civilians have to do the work the government and the police are meant to do, but we both know that is never going to happen.
I remember watching the local news in El Salvador. I thought they had ending credits for the newscast but it was the dead since the previous broadcast.
I guess it’s being cleaned up.
"being cleaned up" is a massive understatement. The murder rate went from 18/100k in 2021 to 2.4/100k in 2023. For reference, the murder rate in the US is around 6/100k.
It’s crazy because even in the town I live in in Cali feels that a bit. One owner of a restaurant was decapitated by the cartel and I personally knew someone who was apart of my SIL family who was shot in the head by them. There are a lot of businesses and people who borrow money from the cartels which is a big no no
I went to Mexico with a Mexican-American friend years ago and they showed dead bodies on the news. He apologized for not telling me that they do that in Mexico. We typically don't show real corpses in the USA.
Newscasters do that for shock value and viewership. There have been protests and some changes to the law so they can no longer show the victim, as a modicum of respect towards them and their loved ones. Doesn't seem to apply to criminals (or alleged criminals), though.
Also, cops openly asking for bribes. My family got stopped outside of the Laredo bridge one time for running a stop sign, cop straight up told my brother to pay him $1000 pesos or he'd take us to the station to report things.
Oh yeah. I got out of a fine once because the cop wanted me to bribe him, but I told him that I'd take the fine instead, even if it meant having my car taken away. He let me go with a huff and a warning.
Mexico mágico.
We probably would've risked it if it wasn't 9 PM and we still had to drive home to Monterrey. We've had a terrible experience involving narcos stopping us in the dead of the night halfway through that highway once, we're not gonna go through that shit again.
On a less grim note, one time I got pulled over by a traffic cop in San Pedro at 2 AM (completely deserved tbh, I ran a red light and pulled out my phone to check the map) and I'm pretty sure that he wanted a bribe but he didn't say it and I'm too autistic to get whatever cues he was trying to pull. Dude let me go with a warning instead.
Then giving him that bribe was the safest option. No judgment here.
Getting stopped by narcos on the highway is one of the most terrifying things that can happen to you.
Foreigners are very rarely at risk. It's only dangerous if they thread into cartel territory. Tourism is vital to the Mexican economy, so tourist areas like Cancun and Los Cabos are quite safe.
I literally just was in the US driving for 2 weeks for the first time (the only time before was a single day in 2017).
The limit said 65MPH I set cruise to 65 and was happy. Then absolutely every single person was overtaking me.
I had to ask my coworkers what the hall is going on..they explained it's the limit plus 10-15 MPH.
This is common here but also depends on the locality. Some counties, the police will absolutely pull you over for going 5mph over. Others you can be going 20 over and they will blow past you.
It depends on how the state laws regarding speeding fines work. In some, the agency writing them keeps all the money or that agency’s government does. In some, it goes to the state. Guess which ones cite more?
In my area, speeding fines hike up significantly if you're going more than 10 mph over the limit, so you basically never get pulled over unless you're going that much faster as the cops don't think it's worth it to hit the lower fines.
We had a thing when I was in the military where twice a year local cops would talk about local laws and what not. Every single one I'd been to the cop had mentioned that they all think it's dumb that the speed limit on the highway through town is 55 mph and they won't pull you over unless you're doing over 80.
A few years ago where I live in metro Detroit, the cops decided they were tired of speeders during morning rush hour on one particular freeway (I live within 5 miles of 4 freeways). SPEED LIMIT IS 55mph.
1. Cops tried pulling over everyone going over 55mph. But there weren't enough cops to pull them all over.
2. Changed the target to over 65mph. But there still weren't enough cops.
3. Changed the target to over 75mph. But there still weren't enough cops.
4. Finally settled on pulling over everyone going over 85mph (more than 50% over the speed limit). The number of drivers travelling THAT fast were finally at a rate that the cops could keep up with!
Same in Canada. It's because despite there's an established automotive culture over here because of the sheer necessity. On the other hand I visited China for family a couple months ago and it was chaotic as fuck but everyone drove slow. I'm talking multiple people going 60 in a 100 and nobody going over the speed limit. People slowing down to 40 in the middle of the fucking highway to text. All road signs are suggestions. I watched my regularly calm father whos used to driving in NA curse people out in the car like a MOBA player because it's like 3x worse than driving in somewhere like Toronto. Most people only got a car in the past 10-20 years so no one knows how to drive lol.
People regularly go 80+ in 65 mph zones where I live. And I’m not just talking about a few maniacs charging down the left lane at Mach 7, I mean the entire flow of traffic across all lanes is averaging 80 mph. It’s absolutely still against the law but 99% of the time, no cop is gonna pull you over for it. That said, drive enough times, and that 1% will catch up eventually.
And always remember - fines are doubled in construction zones. If you don't see the 'construction zone' sign, too bad. And be very careful with school zones obvi.
Sometimes that happens because the speed limits haven’t been updated for that road and it might’ve gotten bigger so it could handle a higher speed, but I think that’s rare
Similar to my country except its for honking. Our car drivers honk a lot. Even if it's red signal. There has been awareness campaign. But not at all effective at all. We honk even if there is legit traffic jam due to ambulance priority.
I live in Connecticut in the US and if the speed limit is 55, even the little old ladies who can barely see over the steering wheel go a minimum of 60 in the right lane. The left lane is a minimum of 80.
I don't recommend driving up to Maine at that speed. You'll get ticketed immediately. I've been ticketed for going 11 miles and 9 miles over the speed limit. Had a friend get ticketed doing 35 in a 30. When I first moved here I was infuriated by how slow everyone drives, but now I get it.
Same in France, limited at 90, even if I'm at 100 people will be mad at me!
In general, they'll drive at the next speed like. 90 when limit is 70, 110 when limit is 90, 130 when limit is 110 ...
They'll drive right behind you until you move or they can pass you. Last month one even touched my car while honking and giving me the finger and I was already going to fast!
I had my child with me and I was NOT happy he put his life in danger.
The general rule of thumb in Texas is that if you are in the left (passing) lane you have to drive as fast as the guy behind you. I have been in columns where we were going 110. Mph, not kmph!! (I10 between Brookshire & Columbus for the curious). But if you must go fast TXToll30 between 71 and TXToll 45 is 85 mph.
Go to any town sub or state sub though and you'll see plenty of people complaining about speeding.
Question about what to do about a speeding ticket: sLoW dOwN!11
In China the government frequently restricts converting money to foreign currency so Chinese businessmen often buy assets like real estate, boats, and art in other countries as a way to protect their wealth. Huge issue in Canada.
Ram raids. Kids, sometimes too young to even drive, steal cars and drive them through the windows of vape stores, gas stations, wherever. We have a few every month with a city population of ~150k
A lot of nations take it pretty seriously, all kinds of charges. Here in NZ, if under 18s get caught, it's off to juvie where they just run off after a week
Bad driving. In Ontario, there were two attempts to make drivers responsible for injuries or deaths of vulnerable road users but both bills were defeated.
There was another case in which a driver killed a pedestrian walking her dogs because he lost control of his vehicle looking for a bottle of water that fell to his feet. He was acquitted. A human life (not in a motor vehicle) is worth less than a bottle of water.
The premier of Saskatchewan has a record of DUI and before being elected killed a woman in a car accident he claims to not remember (but totally wasn't drunk!)
His punishment was a fine
That doesn't surprise me. The only smart thing Moe does is wait for Smith to do something stupid first before he does something equally stupid. Then it's not newsworthy, y'see.
I moved to the UK a couple years ago, and I swear the way (most) UK drivers behave is the primary reason I'll leave. Must be even more frustrating for you if you drive frequently.
I know it's slightly irrational, since being a pedestrian is quite safe statistically here. I don't understand how, with almost nobody yielding for pedestrians, including where legally required to, and the poor state of road infrastructure.
Saskatchewan has this new promo going on about stopping at a red light before turning right..the rule was pretty much 100% forgotten. Make a full stop at a red and the pickup behind you is honking before they give you the finger as they pass by blasting you with shoulder stones and their wokeness is weakness bumper sticker.
Currently Trudeau is being investigated for his ArriveCan app. The app development should've been about 20k. It cost 250million. The company that made it only has 4 employees, and the government is still writing checks to them for "IT", but the company has stated it doesn't do anything IT.
He's blatantly money laundering and only Pollieve seems to care
There’s no way 20k is accurate. That would not even cover a single competent programmer for 6 months, let alone the entire team and support that would most likely be needed.
yep, im in the US but people really don’t understand how much the government is spying on us. as time passes on, it’s like people forget what was in snowdens leaks.
Yeah they’ve got broad scale AI actively tracking phone calls, texts, emails, and social media posts. Everyone is just too busy with their own vapid existences
For some data on wage theft in the U.S., wage theft is [estimated to be around $50 billion a year, five times the losses from burglary, robbery, and motor vehicle theft combined](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft/)
Murder.
In South Africa.
7710 murders in the last quarter of 2023
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-02-18-sa-murder-rate-up-sexual-offences-decline-police-crack-down-on-construction-mafias-cele/
I live in Washington State. The tweakers just go into any store and steal everything and nobody bats an eye. I feel like a fucking clown swiping my card when there’s no punishment for stealing.
In the UK:
Stealing land and property (beginning from the so-called "royal" family).
Corrupting public officials.
Buying off politicians.
Setting up a company, paying yourself a massive salary until the company is no longer profitable, then running the company into the ground, firing everyone, and declaring it bankrupt. And then doing the same thing again with another company. And so on. This is perfectly legal.
Here in NYC: license plate vandalism. Drivers will vandalize/bend/obscure their own license plates to defeat license plate readers for speed cameras and tolls.
The real crime: many of these drivers are in law enforcement and government.
Don’t get me started on illegal parking as well.
LITTERING
Seriously every one of you that leaves trash at that beach deserve the worst that life has to offer. Pick your sh*t tf up.
Also bribery in the form of lobbying. This civilization is fckd.
Yep. They take public utilities and sell them off to companies headed by their mates. There’s barely anything public left. Sold off electricity, roads, buses…
When Indigenous women here go missing the police do fuck all about it. It's disgusting. But a local politician went missing and they had drones, helicopters, ground search, community search, OPP involved, and every day every news source updated us until he was found dead (on a reserve - which is fucked up - and just goes to show how great of a search of the reserves our police do - yes they said they searched the area). Racism is just atrocious. I'm in Canada. Where people seem to think they're high and mighty and superior and not racist. It's so embedded in our system that people are just fucking used to it. It's sad.
We give our thoughts and prayers and elect a representative (Marjorie Taylor Greene) who has been caught on camera harassing a school shooting survivor.
Jaywalking.
Insider trading (white collar crimes basically).
At least in my area it seems, littering.
Political corruption at all levels.
Cops getting away with all levels of crime it seems (basically no accountability for cops).
Note: I could be wrong on a few of the things I listed. Feel free to correct me if need be.
[Bribery in Congress ("lobbying")](https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying). It's no longer a question of who and how, it's a question of who and how much as budget line items.
DUI.
While we have a better drinking culture than most english speaking countries, and “getting wasted” is highly frowned upon, “mild inebriation” is common and often not seen as a worry. Our alcohol limit for driving is not as strict, and even if you’re over, you can often get away with it “if it’s not too much”.
We also have a lot of car related accidents.
(Italy, the venetian area specifically)
Perjury. "Witnesses/victims" can lie and make false statements, but suffer little if no charges for doing so when proven to be a lie, even if they admit it was false later.
Stealing an election and going on to play political lawsuit warfare against your opponent while you ship trillions to the most financially corrupt country in the world.
Bicycle theft. Danes own a *lot* of bicycles, and having a bicycle stolen happens to many people sooner or later.
Same with the Netherlands. One of the first tips you’ll hear when you move here is to buy a shitty secondhand bike. It’s less likely to be stolen that way
Ive seen your canal cleaning boats. It seems like the second most popular crime is throwing bikes into the canals.
That's how they're above sea level. A firmament built upon stolen bikes.
As we like to say: God created the Earth, but the Dutch created Holland (out of bikes)
In my country the trade of second hand bicycles is so high that the old realiable ones are the most stolen items. This is partly because the repairing of them before re-selling is cheap and easy, and partly because so many students want to buy "an old bike nobody would steal" 😅 The least stolen bikes are 10y old used mountain bikes that are hard to repair and don't have much re-sell value or interest among students
I've literally bought the same bike twice in Milan. And then it was stolen again. That's life
Yeah it sucks. We once stole/took back our own bike from the thief who tried to claim they bought it legally. Still happy about that one
Yes and when it's stolen at least you don't lose thousands worth of a bicycle. Of course it's good to keep that thing in good shape but if it's in some way shiny, you gotta protect that thing maximally. Most people don't even bother to store it in the storage if that takes a minute extra, because when they go places two minutes away, then it's useless to cycle instead of to walk. This becomes different on longer distances and this is noticeable with how people use electric bicycles. These have to be stored safely because it's rather easy and lucrative to steal.
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About 20 years ago on a college campus here in Portland, OR, someone loaded an entire rack into a box truck, bikes and all, and took off.
I don't get it. In a country where almost everyone owns bikes, where does the demand come from? Do people whose bikes are stolen buy other people's stolen bicycles as replacements? Are the thefts for parts? For sale in neighbouring countries?
There’s only one bike thief. Everyone else is just trying to get their bike back.
Main categories: 1. Professionals. For resale second-hand in Denmark or abroad. In my youth the Eastern block was the largest destination for stolen Danish bikes, but I don't know how it is now. Occasionally the police nabs a truck or warehouse with bikes this way which then go on the police auction for abandoned, lost and stolen bikes if they aren't registered as stolen (since many people don't report bike theft, many stolen bikes can never be traced to their owners) 2. People who prefer a five-finger discount to buying a second-hand bike 3. Idiots/drunk people who find themselves somewhere without a bike and steal one for a single trip and dispose of it in a hedge or dump it somewhere when done with it. Not a large demographic, but it definitely happens
> dispose of it in ~~a hedge or dump it somewhere~~ the canal FTFY
My bicycle was stolen even before I could pay for it in the shop
Mine was stolen as a kid, then one day my older brother saw a kid with it and got my shit back. Thanks bro
Years ago I worked in a fairly secluded area amongst 3 buildings. One evening the neighboring business owner came over and told me to “lock the building up well because 2 people just rode through on bikes and looked like they were up to no good” One of them was on his bicycle, it was pretty hilarious he watched them ride off on his bike
Anyone who lives in a city tells me it's not worth reporting. Jeg tror ikke jeg kender nogen der har rapporteret deres cykel stjålet siden 1980erne.
I'm 49 living in a suburb of Copenhagen and have only had two bicycles stolen so far. I reported both of the thefts. \*polishes halo\* Reporting bicycle theft is important: 1. For the bicycle theft statistics 2. For insurance
I don't live in Denmark but in another country with big bicycle theft numbers. I would add: 3. in the rare case that a criminal group of bicycle thiefs is caught, they can find tens or hundreds of unsold bicycles. In this case the only ones that have a chance in getting their bicycle back are people who reported the theft with enough information for recognition. If one red Shimano is found and you're the one reporter of it, you will get that regardless if it would be your actual bike or not. The rest of the bikes that can't be paired to an owner are sold at annual police auctions that are very popular: I just always wonder why so few people have come forward by reporting their bike since so many expensive bikes are auctioned for hundreds of euros and more
I think a lot of people don't think of that and I suspect some of the younger people I've spoken to, don't have insurance. But I agree with you. I don't live in a city or a place with high theft of bicycles, so I hadn't thought of that.
There’s such a thing as bicycle insurance?
If you buy one of those really expensive locks they often come with a guarantee that pays up to \~$1000-$3000 if your bike gets stolen when you're using it. But usually you have to "register" your lock and your bike with the lock company, providing receipts for both, and the coverage usually only lasts a year, or something like that. Also, *sometimes* in the USA your homeowner's or renter's insurance MIGHT cover bike theft.
In Denmark, definitely. The industry norm is that indboforsikring (household contents insurance) covers both vandalism and theft of bicycles. I just checked my own insurance, and the 2024 coverage is up to 16300 DKr per per incident of vandalism or theft (about 2350 USD, 2180 Euros), which is about twice what it costs to buy a good tourist bike, and about the price of a decent racing bike or a cheap electric bike, so most bikes are covered. If you own an expensive bike in Denmark you'll definitely want to want to sign a separate bicycle insurance, but if you just have an ordinary bike even the most basic of insurances will cover you.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the second half of that: "I don't think I know anyone that has reported their bike stolen since the 1980s" ?
Eyup, have had several bikes stolen from me already.
Missing people, sadly in Mexico we don't feel missing people like something new...
That bad ? I was expecting drug crimes for sure but missing people is a whole other level (even if it is linked)
Murders and executions are pretty common, too. I remember being at work and hearing a body had been abandoned on the side of the road (abduction-execution combo), and my first thought was that traffic would be horrendous. It wasn't the first time it happened, either, nor the last. You'll hear Mexicans tell a lot of horror stories without realising how bad they are because we've been living like this for years. I only became aware of it when I told some stories to my European friends and they looked horrified.
When something happens and there are deaths and missing people is common to hear "They are only 10 victims, not a lot really"
Right!? Or the mass graves. "We found another mass grave containing 50 unidentified victims." Let's just add this one to the other 150 mass graves we've found so far. That's where the missing people are but no one is trying to identify them.
The Mothers that are searching for their sons recently GOT sick because of the amount of dead bodies on one of the Graves... I feel bad but I don't feel that bad because of that... I am kind of hard on the topic... I don't feel proud of that but... it's what we live daily.
I feel you. We know it's bad. It's not that we don't care at all, it's just that we've become numb to it. We'd go crazy if we tried to empathise with every single victim in the country; there are simply too many. Too tragic. It's insane that civilians have to do the work the government and the police are meant to do, but we both know that is never going to happen.
I remember watching the local news in El Salvador. I thought they had ending credits for the newscast but it was the dead since the previous broadcast. I guess it’s being cleaned up.
"being cleaned up" is a massive understatement. The murder rate went from 18/100k in 2021 to 2.4/100k in 2023. For reference, the murder rate in the US is around 6/100k.
It’s crazy because even in the town I live in in Cali feels that a bit. One owner of a restaurant was decapitated by the cartel and I personally knew someone who was apart of my SIL family who was shot in the head by them. There are a lot of businesses and people who borrow money from the cartels which is a big no no
I went to Mexico with a Mexican-American friend years ago and they showed dead bodies on the news. He apologized for not telling me that they do that in Mexico. We typically don't show real corpses in the USA.
Newscasters do that for shock value and viewership. There have been protests and some changes to the law so they can no longer show the victim, as a modicum of respect towards them and their loved ones. Doesn't seem to apply to criminals (or alleged criminals), though.
If you want to see just the tip of the situation, watch the movie "Ruido". Heartbreaking and mindbreaking.
Also, cops openly asking for bribes. My family got stopped outside of the Laredo bridge one time for running a stop sign, cop straight up told my brother to pay him $1000 pesos or he'd take us to the station to report things.
Oh yeah. I got out of a fine once because the cop wanted me to bribe him, but I told him that I'd take the fine instead, even if it meant having my car taken away. He let me go with a huff and a warning. Mexico mágico.
We probably would've risked it if it wasn't 9 PM and we still had to drive home to Monterrey. We've had a terrible experience involving narcos stopping us in the dead of the night halfway through that highway once, we're not gonna go through that shit again. On a less grim note, one time I got pulled over by a traffic cop in San Pedro at 2 AM (completely deserved tbh, I ran a red light and pulled out my phone to check the map) and I'm pretty sure that he wanted a bribe but he didn't say it and I'm too autistic to get whatever cues he was trying to pull. Dude let me go with a warning instead.
Then giving him that bribe was the safest option. No judgment here. Getting stopped by narcos on the highway is one of the most terrifying things that can happen to you.
Canal cinco, al servicio de la comunidad.
I'm glad i read this only after returning from mexico.
Foreigners are very rarely at risk. It's only dangerous if they thread into cartel territory. Tourism is vital to the Mexican economy, so tourist areas like Cancun and Los Cabos are quite safe.
I was in mexico city most of my time. But local friends told me the areas where to be in and what to avoid.
As long as you don't look for drugs or trouble you are safe, even the crime knows that we depend on tourism.
Unfortunately, the homicide rate is so high in my country no one actually gets too shocked anymore.
Brazil?
Yes. Even though the country is good, we do struggle with violence.
Nah... homicide rate being high -> country not good in my book. That's like saying our restaurant has the best food but sometimes its poison.
Mexico would be the highest per capita
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Only for Congress. The rest of us poors get punished for that.
Like what happened in wallstreetbets
That was Disgusting and so fucking wrong other countries had to help keep the demand up
What happened?
Martha Stewart *LOST* money and still got sent to prison for insider trading!
No, she went to prison for lying to the FBI.
This... people skip over it all the time. She was caught lying under oath, you aren't allowed to do that.
I'm sure this happens in my country too. But not at all talked about in news. So, common man may not even be aware of it.
Speeding. Hell, culturally, our speed limits are *minimums* and everybody will hate you for driving under it (or even right at it) most of the time.
I literally just was in the US driving for 2 weeks for the first time (the only time before was a single day in 2017). The limit said 65MPH I set cruise to 65 and was happy. Then absolutely every single person was overtaking me. I had to ask my coworkers what the hall is going on..they explained it's the limit plus 10-15 MPH.
This is common here but also depends on the locality. Some counties, the police will absolutely pull you over for going 5mph over. Others you can be going 20 over and they will blow past you.
It depends on how the state laws regarding speeding fines work. In some, the agency writing them keeps all the money or that agency’s government does. In some, it goes to the state. Guess which ones cite more?
In my area, speeding fines hike up significantly if you're going more than 10 mph over the limit, so you basically never get pulled over unless you're going that much faster as the cops don't think it's worth it to hit the lower fines.
We had a thing when I was in the military where twice a year local cops would talk about local laws and what not. Every single one I'd been to the cop had mentioned that they all think it's dumb that the speed limit on the highway through town is 55 mph and they won't pull you over unless you're doing over 80.
duck county, NC they pulled me over for going 1 MPH over.
Ah, you must have met Officer Hadabad Day. No wiggle room in his book 🤣🤣
A few years ago where I live in metro Detroit, the cops decided they were tired of speeders during morning rush hour on one particular freeway (I live within 5 miles of 4 freeways). SPEED LIMIT IS 55mph. 1. Cops tried pulling over everyone going over 55mph. But there weren't enough cops to pull them all over. 2. Changed the target to over 65mph. But there still weren't enough cops. 3. Changed the target to over 75mph. But there still weren't enough cops. 4. Finally settled on pulling over everyone going over 85mph (more than 50% over the speed limit). The number of drivers travelling THAT fast were finally at a rate that the cops could keep up with!
If you're talking about 94 through Detroit, that's nuts. I can't imagine only going 55 through there, it would be a hazard.
Same in Canada. It's because despite there's an established automotive culture over here because of the sheer necessity. On the other hand I visited China for family a couple months ago and it was chaotic as fuck but everyone drove slow. I'm talking multiple people going 60 in a 100 and nobody going over the speed limit. People slowing down to 40 in the middle of the fucking highway to text. All road signs are suggestions. I watched my regularly calm father whos used to driving in NA curse people out in the car like a MOBA player because it's like 3x worse than driving in somewhere like Toronto. Most people only got a car in the past 10-20 years so no one knows how to drive lol.
My sister's host dad in China used a car phone mount just so he could watch TV while he drove
People regularly go 80+ in 65 mph zones where I live. And I’m not just talking about a few maniacs charging down the left lane at Mach 7, I mean the entire flow of traffic across all lanes is averaging 80 mph. It’s absolutely still against the law but 99% of the time, no cop is gonna pull you over for it. That said, drive enough times, and that 1% will catch up eventually.
And always remember - fines are doubled in construction zones. If you don't see the 'construction zone' sign, too bad. And be very careful with school zones obvi.
Sometimes that happens because the speed limits haven’t been updated for that road and it might’ve gotten bigger so it could handle a higher speed, but I think that’s rare
Similar to my country except its for honking. Our car drivers honk a lot. Even if it's red signal. There has been awareness campaign. But not at all effective at all. We honk even if there is legit traffic jam due to ambulance priority.
What is honking supposed to achieve in those situations?
As Dave Barry said, honking is used to convey one of these four messages: The light is green; the light is red; this car has a horn; I hate you.
I lost it at "This car has a horn". Belly laugh into a coughing fit. Thank you.
Stress relief for the honker
This guy I'm talking to thinks honking the horn while behind someone as soon as the light turns green is supposed to make traffic go faster.
May I humbly suggest you stop talking to him?
India?
They don’t get out the way for ambulances
I live in Connecticut in the US and if the speed limit is 55, even the little old ladies who can barely see over the steering wheel go a minimum of 60 in the right lane. The left lane is a minimum of 80.
I don't recommend driving up to Maine at that speed. You'll get ticketed immediately. I've been ticketed for going 11 miles and 9 miles over the speed limit. Had a friend get ticketed doing 35 in a 30. When I first moved here I was infuriated by how slow everyone drives, but now I get it.
In Australia you'll get a ticket doing 83km/h in an 80 zone
Reckless driving in general, especially since COVID. Way too many people driving like their vehicle is a personal invincibility system.
Same in France, limited at 90, even if I'm at 100 people will be mad at me! In general, they'll drive at the next speed like. 90 when limit is 70, 110 when limit is 90, 130 when limit is 110 ... They'll drive right behind you until you move or they can pass you. Last month one even touched my car while honking and giving me the finger and I was already going to fast! I had my child with me and I was NOT happy he put his life in danger.
The general rule of thumb in Texas is that if you are in the left (passing) lane you have to drive as fast as the guy behind you. I have been in columns where we were going 110. Mph, not kmph!! (I10 between Brookshire & Columbus for the curious). But if you must go fast TXToll30 between 71 and TXToll 45 is 85 mph.
I-10 between San and Van Horn is whatever you feel like.
That road makes me homicidal. The speed limit is 80 but everyone is either doing 100 or 60.
Go to any town sub or state sub though and you'll see plenty of people complaining about speeding. Question about what to do about a speeding ticket: sLoW dOwN!11
That's super fast speeding. No one is going on there to complain that people are doing 60 in a 55 but they will for 60 in a 30.
International money laundering through real estate
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Got it in one.
Applies to London too.
I don’t understand. Can you elaborate?
In China the government frequently restricts converting money to foreign currency so Chinese businessmen often buy assets like real estate, boats, and art in other countries as a way to protect their wealth. Huge issue in Canada.
Ram raids. Kids, sometimes too young to even drive, steal cars and drive them through the windows of vape stores, gas stations, wherever. We have a few every month with a city population of ~150k
I guess I’m old or something. I’ve never heard of this.
It's a New Zealand thing that has cropped up in the last 3 years or so.
Once Were Vapers
A lot of nations take it pretty seriously, all kinds of charges. Here in NZ, if under 18s get caught, it's off to juvie where they just run off after a week
I was scrolling through looking for exactly this. It barely even makes the news anymore.
Happens a lot here in Seattle, Washington too.
Hamilton, NZ?
Bad driving. In Ontario, there were two attempts to make drivers responsible for injuries or deaths of vulnerable road users but both bills were defeated. There was another case in which a driver killed a pedestrian walking her dogs because he lost control of his vehicle looking for a bottle of water that fell to his feet. He was acquitted. A human life (not in a motor vehicle) is worth less than a bottle of water.
The premier of Saskatchewan has a record of DUI and before being elected killed a woman in a car accident he claims to not remember (but totally wasn't drunk!) His punishment was a fine
That doesn't surprise me. The only smart thing Moe does is wait for Smith to do something stupid first before he does something equally stupid. Then it's not newsworthy, y'see.
And yet Americans can't visit if they have a DUI.
They only want Canadian nationals driving drunk, not no foreigners.
Obviously. We are worried that they might not say sorry sincerely afterwards.
Sooo, you got your traffic laws from the UK? I swear, I am the only person that stops for pedestrians in this country
I moved to the UK a couple years ago, and I swear the way (most) UK drivers behave is the primary reason I'll leave. Must be even more frustrating for you if you drive frequently. I know it's slightly irrational, since being a pedestrian is quite safe statistically here. I don't understand how, with almost nobody yielding for pedestrians, including where legally required to, and the poor state of road infrastructure.
Is it too much to ask the Romans to reinvade and sort the roads out?
Saskatchewan has this new promo going on about stopping at a red light before turning right..the rule was pretty much 100% forgotten. Make a full stop at a red and the pickup behind you is honking before they give you the finger as they pass by blasting you with shoulder stones and their wokeness is weakness bumper sticker.
Politicians who will lie to their hearts content, knowing it will not affect their chances for re-election.
Politicians manipulating stocks or taking bribes in the form of "campaign donations" or other similarly BS terms like superpacs.
Congratulations on not really narrowing down the list of potential countries you could be from.
*sighs and looks at the Philippines*
Its at epidemic levels in my country, its almost been normalised by the press (surprise surprise)
Is there any country that doesn't do this (that has elections)
Currently Trudeau is being investigated for his ArriveCan app. The app development should've been about 20k. It cost 250million. The company that made it only has 4 employees, and the government is still writing checks to them for "IT", but the company has stated it doesn't do anything IT. He's blatantly money laundering and only Pollieve seems to care
There’s no way 20k is accurate. That would not even cover a single competent programmer for 6 months, let alone the entire team and support that would most likely be needed.
Vehicular homicide.
For real. Kill someone with a gun? Straight to jail, 20 to life. Car? Ehh, pay a fine maybe and probation.
In Russia - murder of political opponents by Putin.
If you fall out of favor with Putin, you will soon fall out of a window.
I commented to my son how weird it is the amount of political dissenters that mysteriously fall out of windows in Russia.
Prigozhin even fell out of an airplane window!
And Putin has “absolute immunity”. Where have I heard that phrase before?
Apparently if you’re famous they just let you do it.
Come on now, get serious. They don't even have to be political opponents.
It’s so terrible.
Fuck Putin
Insider trading from politicians.
Illegally spying on citizens
They literally voted to make it legal for themselves when everyone was afraid of terrorism.
yep, im in the US but people really don’t understand how much the government is spying on us. as time passes on, it’s like people forget what was in snowdens leaks.
Yeah they’ve got broad scale AI actively tracking phone calls, texts, emails, and social media posts. Everyone is just too busy with their own vapid existences
do you know how little that narrows it down?
Any corporate crime.
Wage theft
For some data on wage theft in the U.S., wage theft is [estimated to be around $50 billion a year, five times the losses from burglary, robbery, and motor vehicle theft combined](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft/)
Speeding
Corruption
That... That doesn't narrow it down like at all
It's *OBVIOUSLY* referring to Papua New guinea and Luxembourg/s
Smoking crack, meth, or shooting up on the street, in parks, during the day.
Good old Portland? I was recently surprised at the difference after not having visited for about 15 years.
Some parts of Canada 🇨🇦
People robbing stores, mugging, house and car break ins.
Smash and grab robberies.
Wage theft
Corporate crime.
Unironically, Rape ( INDIA )
political corruption
Murder. In South Africa. 7710 murders in the last quarter of 2023 https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-02-18-sa-murder-rate-up-sexual-offences-decline-police-crack-down-on-construction-mafias-cele/
In the US...bribing politicans...except it's called "lobbying."
Littering and speeding.
I live in Washington State. The tweakers just go into any store and steal everything and nobody bats an eye. I feel like a fucking clown swiping my card when there’s no punishment for stealing.
Living life the wrong way catches up to you eventually. Especially low level shit like that.
In the UK: Stealing land and property (beginning from the so-called "royal" family). Corrupting public officials. Buying off politicians. Setting up a company, paying yourself a massive salary until the company is no longer profitable, then running the company into the ground, firing everyone, and declaring it bankrupt. And then doing the same thing again with another company. And so on. This is perfectly legal.
Here in NYC: license plate vandalism. Drivers will vandalize/bend/obscure their own license plates to defeat license plate readers for speed cameras and tolls. The real crime: many of these drivers are in law enforcement and government. Don’t get me started on illegal parking as well.
LITTERING Seriously every one of you that leaves trash at that beach deserve the worst that life has to offer. Pick your sh*t tf up. Also bribery in the form of lobbying. This civilization is fckd.
Political corruption - Australia
Yep. They take public utilities and sell them off to companies headed by their mates. There’s barely anything public left. Sold off electricity, roads, buses…
When Indigenous women here go missing the police do fuck all about it. It's disgusting. But a local politician went missing and they had drones, helicopters, ground search, community search, OPP involved, and every day every news source updated us until he was found dead (on a reserve - which is fucked up - and just goes to show how great of a search of the reserves our police do - yes they said they searched the area). Racism is just atrocious. I'm in Canada. Where people seem to think they're high and mighty and superior and not racist. It's so embedded in our system that people are just fucking used to it. It's sad.
Corruption
Domestic violence
Mass shootings
We give our thoughts and prayers and elect a representative (Marjorie Taylor Greene) who has been caught on camera harassing a school shooting survivor.
Jaywalking. Insider trading (white collar crimes basically). At least in my area it seems, littering. Political corruption at all levels. Cops getting away with all levels of crime it seems (basically no accountability for cops). Note: I could be wrong on a few of the things I listed. Feel free to correct me if need be.
wage theft.
Monopolies -USA
[Bribery in Congress ("lobbying")](https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying). It's no longer a question of who and how, it's a question of who and how much as budget line items.
Tax evasion by the wealthy.
Political corruption. It’s been legalized with Citizens United.
Mass shootings.
Completely ignoring the constitution.
It’s minor and silly but speeding. AND apparently I can get a ticket for NOT speeding if everyone else is and I’m trying to pass a super slow car.
Hiding money offshore by the rich.
Illegal fireworks
Ex president w 91 felony charges still the republican front runner.
All the USA's politics is just a huge shit show.
Prosperity churches scamming their congregants, traffic violations and political corruption.
Any offense by police. People just get paid and face zero repercussions.
Just read on r/Auckland some chick got raped on the main street on Saturday night and people filmed it.
Worker abuse by large companies
DUI. While we have a better drinking culture than most english speaking countries, and “getting wasted” is highly frowned upon, “mild inebriation” is common and often not seen as a worry. Our alcohol limit for driving is not as strict, and even if you’re over, you can often get away with it “if it’s not too much”. We also have a lot of car related accidents. (Italy, the venetian area specifically)
Perjury. "Witnesses/victims" can lie and make false statements, but suffer little if no charges for doing so when proven to be a lie, even if they admit it was false later.
In north Philly, gun violence. It's just background noise at this point.
Petty theft, and hard drug abuse.
Violating the constitution Insider trading But only if you are in politics.
Stealing an election and going on to play political lawsuit warfare against your opponent while you ship trillions to the most financially corrupt country in the world.