I have zero issue with this TBH. Double the fine each week he don’t pay.
Based honestly
Could we make these fines proportional to the income?
“David said he was told that he would be fined” + David got fined = David kept doing it even after getting warned.
The BBC, doing their public service of letting us all know that David is a twat!
(More serioulsy, most British media - definitelly the BBC - pretty frequently post “other countries are bad” and “shocking treatment of Briton abroad” kind of articles: Brexit was very much anchored on English Exceptionalism and the local media has long feed such delusions of exceptionalism with this kind of article and a more general spin on international news that agrandizes British importance and portrays others countries as lesser)
Til USA exceptionism is only a continuation of their motherland’s
Imagine you are at a station, making a call on speakerphone in public (because you’re an asshole). Then you get approached by a person asking you to turn of the speaker (not even to end the call, mind you).
At that point, I’d imagine the normal thing is to just comply with that request (even for dicks on speakerphone).
Now imagine this person being not some random passenger, but someone working for the train company, in uniform and everything. And they’re telling you that they will fine you if you don’t comply.
At this point, how fucking deep up your own ass do you have to be to ignore them?
I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.
I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.
The reply was “oui, but i am French!”
We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.
French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.
I once travelled with French people.
That couldn’t end well….and it didn’t.
It’s not the French. All people are annoying. Obviously
I dont know. I never heard someone complain about Korean tourists for instance.
Other bad reputation tourists include Germans, Brits and Russians. But i guess that is mainly because of “drunk at the beach” tourism to Spain and Turkey.
It’s just perpetuating national stereotypes. It doesn’t do any good.
Then again the whole thread is weird. It feeds my suspicion that there’s a lot of (relatively) old people on Lemmy. Everybody’s getting riled up because of some guy talking with his loudspeaker on. Wtf?
Would you like to have someone next to you make lots of noise, while you are just trying to get from A to B in peace?
Also it is one thing to be oblivious to annoying other people in public. It is another thing entirely to make a point of annoying other people in public and doubling down on it, if someone tell you. That is just being arrogant and vile.
Yeah, I don’t like it, I am quite sensitive to any kind of sound. But I don’t have a problem expressing that, and if that doesn’t resolve it, I leave. For these annoyances I really don’t think we need any kind of authority.
Which brings us to the point everybody here conveniently omitted, that there’s conflicting statements. He says he switched off the phone immediately, the rail company says he didn’t. Here nobody gives a fuck about that and everybody’s just calling for higher fines. Someone even, albeit jokingly, suggests eugenics. It’s like a mob mentality and I find it shocking. I wish they’d be just as aggressive when it comes to cars. Because that’s a form of pollution that is more than just an annoyance. It’s life threatening.
Seriously, how stressed are you Europeans? Going nuts about someone who’s slightly annoying.
Can we have the same treatment for the Assholes who watch TikTok or Reels without headphones but with sound on the Train?
🥺👉👈
The only thing worse than idiots watching one vapid TikTok clip after the other (preferably in the silent compartment, of course), was when I was on a train to Berlin from Amsterdam, and the people on the other side of the aisle were trying to keep their kid calm by playing him Baby Shark over and over and fucking over again…
I’m not a fan of eugenics but you make a good argument
According to the article, they also get fined.
From the article:
David said he was told that he would be fined €150 if he did not turn off the loudspeaker - a fine which he claims was later increased to €200 because he did not pay it on the spot. He has since hired a lawyer to dispute the fine.
He got a warning and ignored it… can we double the fine?
for 200 you get some pretty decent headphones
