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I agree, this is posted as news when it’s likely anecdotal or even fabricated. It plays on the American self-image as John Wayne types, when everyone in Europe knows they’re usually not very streetwise and walk around with maps and cameras talking loudly.

The other comments here are quick to jump in with opinions about how Americans don’t take any shit, implying European simps just roll over for these pesky pilferers.

It’s a real Don’t Mess with Texas vibe based on another dodgy blog article.

Is he orchestrating a buyback or what?

This is fair enough, but it’s your own belief system. Atheism is the absence of belief in God’s, nothing more.

You’re free to thoughtfully pick and choose your own beliefs, in the same way religious people unconsciously do because their scriptures are so dense and contradictory.