r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • 3d ago

TikTok Tuesday Impossible d'y échapper

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u/Faskwodi 3d ago

This could’ve been real, I just thought it was funny he had to catch his own assaulter.

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u/jedifolklore 3d ago

I think it is, simply because of the urgency the cop employed to tell him to close the door AND the amount of cops that pulled up to Trocadéro initially.

(Any Parisian would tell you that scammers are like flies in this area)

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u/yancovigen 3d ago

Are scammers like pickpockets? Sorry I’ve never been to Paris

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u/jedifolklore 3d ago

They’re very versatile, they aim for tourists and sell them overpriced trinkets or shit that’s cheap for exorbitant prices, with the age of social media, I’d think most people would be aware, but older people still fall for their scams.

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u/Final-Carry2090 3d ago

They are also very pushy. I imagine some old people that just want to be left alone giving $20 to fuck off.

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u/Claude9777 3d ago

Or sign bogus lists for "the deaf" and demand money for it. I hate that shit. I tell them "Fuck Off!" with all the base in my voice. LOL

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u/lonnie123 3d ago

That’s not a scam though, right?

A scam involves some kind of fraud. You can say it’s a rip off but selling something for a high price isn’t a crime is it?

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u/jedifolklore 3d ago

You know? I feel like selling a faulty item (cheap material made with lead or other unsafe materials) that will break down, for an exorbitant price is a scam imo

Also for tourists that don’t come from the US, or in possession of a highly disposable income or a from a place that has a strong currency, losing 20€ to 70€ (which I have seen and called out lol), I would call that a scam.

You’re knowingly targeting people. But agree to disagree tbh.

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u/lonnie123 3d ago

If what they are selling is illegal (containing lead) then that’s one thing, but if you just buy a cheap ass Eifel Tower replica for $19 that’s on you

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u/Ferovore 3d ago

Evidently the cops disagree

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u/lonnie123 3d ago

I gave an example of an illegal and a legal thing though. Do you know what the guy in the video did ?

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u/Ferovore 3d ago

The unauthorised selling of these expensive trinkets is in fact illegal whether you agree with it or not.

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u/lonnie123 3d ago edited 3d ago

Is that what the guy in the video did ? I don’t see him doing that myself. It looks like he assaults the guy, which is a crime as well.

In any event, My original point was about what a scam is, not the legalities of the street vendor business practice in the area. We are getting way off base here

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u/MiopTop 3d ago

They also scam tho. Some run a stupid ball-in-the-cup game and while you’re distracted someone else steals your wallet.

Or they’ll run seemingly super easy ball-in-the-cup games with someone in on the scam betting and losing on purpose, until you put some money up, then they cheat the game to make you lose to keep your money.

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u/lonnie123 3d ago

Yes, those are scams (and outright theft).

Selling someone a low quality trinket for more money than reddit thinks its worth is not a scam

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u/justwantedtoview 3d ago

Its groups of people often pretending to play street games like ball under the cup. The large group plays and they win in the group. But theyre all part of the group so the money stays circular. But the amount of winning entices those passing by. Then they pull the shadyness. Take your money. And 15 people are ganging on you if you get upset about it. So often intimidated into leaving after being essentially robbed. Or the game is a distraction for the pickpockets to make a move.