Valkie wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:20 pmOnly St Petersburg, went there from Finland while I was staying in Turku.FLEKTARN wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:41 amValkie wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:09 amThe Aussie cops are with few exceptions.FLEKTARN wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:08 amSadly, I don't have enough experience with Australian coppers. I don't know anything besides a movie scene from the Wolf Creek. No idea, literally, so I won't comment on that.
Maybe you got lucky and did not get harassed. Maybe they're targeting Canadians only. There's another, more brutal video - just type "germany boy police usa" without the quotes in YouTube.
Bombastic
Rude
Aggressive
Insulting
Crooked
Brutal
I have been very lucky (or perhaps simply honest enough) to have had little to do with them.
But, the ones I have had any interaction with just don't realise that they are first and foremost, public servants.
They hate it when you immediately start recording any interaction with them, which I do religiously.
After all, they are doing the same often without advising you.
They have standard routine beaten into them in order to entrap you into making statements they can use against you, and hate it when you refuse to play by their scripted responses.
They go first to attack, and rarely converse with those they approach
And have no respect for any other person.
They could seriously do with a few manners, better training, some humility and a big dose of respect for the people who pay them.
At least yank cops say sir/ madam, are polite and, from my few interactions, quite friendly to me.
One cop even joked about my "that's a knife", which I didn't carry in the US, but as a reference to Crocodile Dundee.
Russian cops have also been very friendly when I was over there, as were the French cops, who have a reputation for being less than friendly.
British cops were good when I got pulled over for driving down the wrong road by mistake, thanks Garmin.
They had a great laugh when I reset the destination and it wanted me to go back the same way. They actually drove in front until I got back to where I should have been and waved good by.
The Finnish cops pulled over at 2.00am when I was going for a walk.
It was still daylight, ( being summer solstice) and I could not sleep, so I went for a walk.
I explained to them that I couldn't sleep and they had a great laugh, giving me a lift to an all night cafe, where I bought them a coffee each
They both spoke quite good English and enjoyed being able to speak with an English speaking person to practice their skills.
Although, they did struggle a bit with my colloquialisms.
Only Germany did I have any real problem, and that was because they didn't speak any English and I could not understand what they were saying.
The car I was driving had been reported stolen several weeks before, but once it was cleared up that I had only arrived the day before and they contacted the hire company, we parted ways with smiles, if no real understanding.
As I said, you need to know the whole story.
Be polite and don't treat them like idiots and generally, they are all good.
I didn't know you went to Russia. You're mafia, like me.
P.S. Bulgarian police stops you ..."How many horsepower is the car? Are you happy, is it reliable?"
I actually like the Russians.
They are loud but quite easy to get along with.
But man, can they drink.
And they didn't quite get that I don't drink at all.
Russian women are quite nice too
Some are seriously pretty
But being married, they were all off limits to me
This actually endeared me to them.
If you think Russians are "loud", then you need to see German tourists in Golden Sands or Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, or British tourists on football games. I've been around both. I've been around drinking with Germans, and I've been around football fans from England. You need to be fucking cool, or very drunk, to be around these and so you can stand them.
