Like A Duck@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoAmericans, what is something that Europeans have/do that makes no sense to you?message-squaremessage-square281fedilinkarrow-up1190arrow-down112
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minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down26·edit-21 year agoI’m not American, but I still find it crazy that I’m expected to huddle in a corner with a butter knife, hoping someone doesn’t hurt me and my family, and wait for the police to never show up while someone rifles through my house. Fuck that. Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
minus-squareuglyduckling81@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoIf I lived in a country where this was something to worry about, if worry about it. It’s not something I’ve ever thought about or considered in Australia. Sure break-ins happen but violent crimes during break-ins… it’s so rare I’ve never heard of or met anyone that knows of it happening.
minus-squarepascal@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoMost European countries have civilian arrest laws, for your information.
I’m not American, but I still find it crazy that I’m expected to huddle in a corner with a butter knife, hoping someone doesn’t hurt me and my family, and wait for the police to never show up while someone rifles through my house. Fuck that.
Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
If I lived in a country where this was something to worry about, if worry about it.
It’s not something I’ve ever thought about or considered in Australia.
Sure break-ins happen but violent crimes during break-ins… it’s so rare I’ve never heard of or met anyone that knows of it happening.
Most European countries have civilian arrest laws, for your information.