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[–] 164 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Are people really this afraid of strangers? Last year I bought a bicycle from a woman, she sent me her address, I went there, it was just her and her baby waiting for me with the bicycle. Didn't even kidnap her.

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  • [–] 95 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Didn't even kidnap her.

    And they say chivalry is dead.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Just left her there. Didn't bring her home. I say chivalry is dead

    Tap for spoiler/s

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  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    That seems kind of like the standard procedure around here (Germany) too. When you sell something online, the expectation is always that the buyer comes to the sellers house to pick up the item. I've never seen anyone do that "let's meet at this random parking lot" thing americans tend to do.

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  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The US is a lower trust society than most of Europe

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That is sad. Openly showing trust to the people around you (even if you have to take the first step and give someone the benefit of the doubt) creates the safest, most pleasant communities. Plus it's just a massive hassle and mental strain to distrust everyone all the time.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Enjoy it man, that's a privilege to have and it only takes 1 bad incident for it all to come crumbling down when the media blows it out of proportion and everyone goes on a witch hunt for minorities.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure it takes a whole lot more than that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You would think but wasn't it in Germany that people went out attacking migrants in response to an incident where migrants were the perpetrators?

    All I'm saying is that you assume people will respond logically like yourself but in reality that's rarely the case.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    There were a few attacks by angry people. But who says that in Germany "a whole lot more" hasn't happened? People are losing their jobs, capitalism is massively extracting people's wealth, enshittification everywhere. "A whole lot more" than one incident is currently happening.

    All I'm doing is staying realistic. You saying "one incident is all it takes" is not literally true. It's an exaggeration, not an entirely untrue one, but still.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    People are shity sometimes. I’m one that goes to an address if that’s the expectation. But there are items I almost never sell in person from my home, electronics being one.

    My mother had a garage sale (total American thing I'm sure) and was robbed a few weeks later by someone taking an unusual amount of time “shopping“ with her phone out. The gal was a fool, had recordings on her phone of her and the places she was going to rob with address. After a month or so of this, she was caught and her phone searched where they found 20+ videos of other houses where they looked at stuff that would make for easy theft from the garage.

    Lessons here are you need to decide who do you let in your home and I know it’s a lot to do with culture. Europe has some social support in place, the USA just says good luck and fuck off.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    My wife occasionally agrees to meet people if they live on the other side of the county and it's going to take them an hour to get to our house.

    Usually people just come and pick up their items. We live suburbia though so maybe they feel "safer."

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    they live on the other side of the county and it's going to take them an hour to get to our house.

    Every now and again I'm reminded just how small some countries are, I drive 45min to work every day and I'm only one town over, meanwhile in 15 more minutes you can be on "the other side" of a whole country?

    Meanwhile the trip across the US with no stops and traffic will take me 1d 19hr for 2,544 mi (4094.171 km) (according to openstreetmaps).

    Edit: LOL I can't read. It's still true I suppose just not in this case haha.

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  • [–] 59 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    No, I wanted a bicycle, not a baby. Also kidnapping is kind of frowned upon in my culture.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That's why she brought her baby. No one is going to kidnap someone with a baby. To much hassle.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That's why I always bring a puppy to kidnappings: to distract babies.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    That is what the story is about, yes, women have a fear of harm from men. I assume you know why.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Even the lamp. Fucking lamps...

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why even make a fucking lamp in the first place? Weren't regular lamps good enough as they were?

    You kids these days... back in my day, before leds, you would never even consider using a lamp for any kind of sexual act. Between the bulb melting your flesh, the risks of broken glass, and the risks of electrocution... Well it just wasn't worth it.

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