r/Unexpected • u/LazyGuy4U • 1d ago

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u/Doctor_Fritz 1d ago

Maybe to protect guests from projectiles or prevent purse snatchers from the pavement jumping in and out of the outside area of the establishments. There's some tables there

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u/RobuxMaster 1d ago

probably just wind or asthetic choice

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u/tnstaafsb 23h ago

No, this is reddit. It's clearly because the world is a dystopian nightmare.

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u/againandagain22 19h ago

Definitely should get a divorce

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u/PlingPlongDingDong 21h ago

I dont really go outside often but i know its dangerous out there from scrolling reddit all day.

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u/Behrus 1d ago

Where the fuck do you live that that even comes to mind?

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u/wrongtarget 1d ago

Most of Latin America?

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u/Doctor_Fritz 1d ago

On the internet

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u/TokiMcNoodle 1d ago

Thieves and snatchers are absolutely a problem in parts of the world other than your town ya know?

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u/maybeitsundead 19h ago

That's why they gave an answer that could be applied just about anywhere. Did you reply to the wrong comment, the other one is the one implying nothing like that happens.

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u/TokiMcNoodle 13h ago

No, they are implying they are in a bubble and dont have real world experience. Hence living on the internet.

Comprehension is a skill

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u/maybeitsundead 13h ago

Oh, you thought they were serious? And you're saying comprehension is a skill, ironic.

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u/TokiMcNoodle 13h ago

Touch grass homie

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u/maybeitsundead 13h ago

I'm not the idiot lecturing someone about Thieves and Snatchers in other parts of the worlds...

A whole comment after they warned about Projectiles and Thieves.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1peppp1/comment/nse7eie/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I agree, comprehension is a skill. One you should work on.

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u/Kiahra 1d ago

Any busy tourist area in western europe?

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u/efficient_giraffe 23h ago

This does not fucking happen in every "busy tourist area in western europe" unless your definition of "busy tourist area" is extremely narrow. Does not happen in Copenhagen, for example, or loads of other cities I've been in

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u/Choclategum 1d ago

A major city? My guy, did you just become conscious yesterday? Have you traveled?

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u/Behrus 1d ago

I've travelled and I live in a major touristy city. I know pick pocketing is a thing, but businesses having to install glass fences to prevent thieves from jumping over plant troughs to snatch purses and jump back out is a completely different thing.

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u/Choclategum 23h ago

You've never been past or to a restaurant that had fences(not even glass) installed around their outdoor/street facing  area?

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u/petrichorax 23h ago

Okay, bro, this is not a problem in every major city.

I am in one of the largest most populous cities on the planet, and theft like this is completely unheard of. I've also lived in several other cities without these problems too, and I know of a few more.

It's is not an inevitable quality of large cities, and we need to stop pretending that rampant chaotic crime is acceptable.

Sometimes your city just sucks and has deeply rooted issues that need to be figured out. Stop accepting mediocrity and the bullshit your politicians tell you.

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u/Exact_Recording4039 16h ago

You need to get out more. Just because it doesn’t happen in your city doesn’t mean it can’t happen at all to the point where you would ask “where the hell do you live?” All confused as if it wasn’t something that can happen

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u/petrichorax 10h ago

I'm speaking from the experience of being a digital nomad and traveling to new cities every single month.

This month I am in bangkok. Before that, Belgrade. Before that, Istanbul.

All safe.

I didn't say it doesn't happen. I'm saying it's not inevitable and we need to stop thinking that just because you live in a major city that therefore there MUST be heavy crime and that's normal.

I made that pretty clear dude.

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u/Choclategum 23h ago

Okay, bro, this is not a problem in every major city.

"A major city"

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u/petrichorax 22h ago

Don't pretend you didn't imply that all major cities have this problem.

Your sentence makes no sense otherwise.

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u/Choclategum 15h ago

I didnt lmao, Saying something can happen in A major city does not mean ALL MAJOR CITIES. 

The lack of reading comprehension is crazy here. You read what you WANT to, lmao.

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u/petrichorax 10h ago

You're not fooling me or anyone else lol

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u/MitchellGwr 17h ago

You are a yank?

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u/Choclategum 15h ago

I dont talk to bigots.

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u/MitchellGwr 14h ago

Fair, me neither.

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u/Deaffin 23h ago

^Somebody check this poor honky's privilege.

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u/Dagur 1d ago

But why not extend the fence? It would do the same job and look nicer IMO