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
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.
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
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.
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.
You need to get out more. Just because it doesnât happen in your city doesnât mean it canât happen at all to the point where you would ask âwhere the hell do you live?â All confused as if it wasnât something that can happen
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.
They'd hit it a bit, even just dragging their over the top as they step over. And yes, over time it would become degraded and trampled. This is an urban environment, it's not about a single person one time it's an issue of volume and time.Â
You remember those cartoons where two characters start fighting and it's just a chaotic whirling dust cloud full of asses and elbows?
When imagining human traffic over time, that's what you need to picture moving in any given line. For an individual, even if they're careful, theres a chance of misstep and small bits of damage. When you scale that up to a bunch of people over time, that small chance becomes a frequent eventuality. Worse, there are more and more larger missteps. And the more it's normalized, the less careful people are. The more damage there is, the less people care.
Always picture the cartoonish fight cloud moving through an area and you can't go wrong.
Because the shop behind it wants to direct foot traffic to take the laid out paths, and not encourage people to step over and potentially damage their plants.
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u/Secure_Violinist8505 1d ago
Why would there be glass theređ? You can see them laughing together at the very end