What is even funnier, they claim common law in their own country. Common law is from the English Magna Carta. They live in a republic that has its own constitution, yet they claim a 800 year policy from another country applies to them in their own country.
A lot of them figure out the "hard way" that it's dangerous to do stupid things in a foreign country. Look at Otto Warmbier, who thought it would be cool to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel in North Korea. Other naive Americans travel to places where they're likely to have drugs "planted in their luggage" at the airport. Then airport security busts them, and they get 25-year sentences.
They ALL think American laws overrule the entire planet. I married an American whose mother was a judge, in LA. Believe me, I am now very much a born again divorcee. America, love it or leave it I left it. I spent a few years in that country and I assure you it is certainly the most lawless and corrupt country in the West when it comes to law.
To all Americans..... the phrase "I'm an American " is not going to go as well as you think it will while travelling overseas.... We lose all respect we had for you as we immediately think you are one of those ignorant Americans that think they are the only country with freedom and laws....eg. I was in Thailand on a tour holiday. There was different tour buses for different language groups. One for English one for Germans one for Arabic and so on. When we boarded the English speaking tour bus, the tour operator asked "does everyone here speak English?". Then from the back of the bus some American goes "I don't speak English, I speak American". There was a massive audible "uuugghh" from just about everyone in the bus and everyone turned to the American and gave him the stare down. I've never seen a guy shrink into his seat so much and he was the but of our jokes the whole tour.....
@@carriageofnoreturn.1881 Oh, so THAT's the guy who's been screwing up Canada's reputation all over the world. And here I thought that it was the Canadian Dictator, Justine Turdeau.
I actually witnessed something like that. I, German, was in London for 3 weeks on a language course when I was 18 or 19, about 16 years ago. Roaming the city in our free time, we wanted to take the tube at Oxford Street Station, but it was closed due to an unspecified incident. There were a few bobbies guarding the entrance who explained the situation, basically „Sorry, this station is closed due to an emergency, please use either x station over that direction for y line or z station this direction for w line.“ For some reason I still don‘t understand, a guy started arguing with the constable that he was free to go wherever he wanted in public, he didn‘t accept that the constable was actually _police_ because „you don‘t even have a gun, you‘re security at most“ and more - clearly talking in an American accent. The constable kept calm and simply stated, and I remember that verbatim: „Sir, I understand that you are American, so let me put that simply: This is England, not America. I _am_ police. Police not always have gun in England. You go away or get in trouble. Understand, or do I need to make s sketch?“
I am American. I was in Germany in 2017, and went through several countries in 2022. I have to admit that I had a pleasant experience with everyone on both my trips, but felt anxiety about them first finding I was an American!😔 I like to think of myself as a person who gets along with other people, and is interested in other ethnicities and cultures, not rude.
He kept asking many times "are we free to go" even after the officer told him the first time that he wasn't. He kept interrupting her attempts to explain what was going on, and seemed to imagine that he knew all about UK policing powers and procedures. His rudeness and hostility were truly cringe worthy.
I felt he was particularly patronising and condescending towards the young female officer. However, he had shown himself for what he is in this footage, and there are numerous cringeworthy qualities he displays throughout.
If this American is this obnoxious when he's "sober", I can only imagine what an a** he is when he's high or drunk. He's probably been punched in the face a dozen times on U.S. soil.
Question is why does an American tourist know so much about another countries policing, shows me he’s probably been up to something, I’d like to know how many’s counties policing he learns before traveling
@@expatmooseHe doesn't know shit mate. He's using US auditor lingo to try and pass in the UK. We don't ride like that. We've got different issues with policing which affect primarily the same social demographics. He's a bullish twat who thinks he understands UK law because he knows enough about US law to stay out of cuffs.
@@expatmoosehe says he knows..... but he doesn't.... He refers to American laws and American police standards..... but they don't apply in England..... or any other country in the world.....
@@stunni72 there was a little sarcasm in my comment, if a foreigner claims to know (wether or not true) the rules of other countries it shows me he’s up to mischief in other countries and perhaps 5he police were right to stop him, he must have know to behave like that in USA he’d have got his faced slammed in the ground, our nice British police who are often a push over did not do that, he used it to his advantage plus he was at first talking to woman police officers and he tried to ridicule them
Having been to the USA many times on business and also having met several Americans here in the UK that guy demonstrated two failings of so many Americans: 1. A total ignorance of how other countries do things. 2. An assumption that other countries do things in exactly the same way that they are done in the USA. He was wrong.
@@AM1465 They don't have reasonable suspicion. They said they were detaining him because he might be a witness. That's completely illegal. You can't detain a witness, suspected or otherwise. If you have reasonable suspicion that he's committed a crime, you have to inform him both what the reasonable suspicion and crime in question are.
You missed one - the seeming inability to shut up for long enough for the officer to actually explain anything, and constantly talking over them and repeating the same question over and over even though that one has already been answered.
@@kier1568 Not here in the UK it isn't. And I should know, I was a Special Constable for 18 years. You appear to be applying US principles to the UK. Just like the idiot in the video.
Not to mention all the Americans who turn up to Sydney Airport and then want to go through passport control through the "Citizens" lanes rather than the "International Visitors" lanes. Thick as short planks.
Are you serious? That actually happens? I'm sorry, I might be ignorant about the relationship between AUS and US, but where does that entintlement/idea come from?
It actually aggrevates me how the guy recording interrupted the women at every turn and never let them get a full sentence out but he barely interrupted the man
I wondered if that's partly why she went to get the man (tho he was also senior). When faced with the kind of man who can't hear a woman talking sometimes it's easier to have a man tell him exactly the same thing. Annoying.. but life is short.
@@rayaqueen9657 sadly though by doing that that's reinforcing sexist stereotypes that women need a man to explain stuff for them. I get why she did it but sadly with a potential misogynist like him that's just gonna reinforce his sexist views
@@NatashaWarden agreed. Some guys there's no hope for tho. Or rather, my time is too precious to waste on them! Sometimes it also makes the point. ..You obviously can't hear anything I'm saying so I'll get a man for you to say the same thing..
If this is not a spoof then the coppers had the patience of a saint and the American had entitled arrogance and pig ignorance beyond belief. EDIT - It's not a spoof, on the original video the poster said that he got 20 hours in the cells under a video called "American Vs British. Police Gets Owned." The only person who got "owned" in this video is the one who ended up in the slammer.
No this was real. He even posted it on his own YT channel thinking he 'owned the Brits'. Well the comments section as you can guess was hysterically funny.
This isn't a spoof. You'd get done in the UK for pretending to be cops like this without express permission which you might get for a movie after applying, but not for some kinda buzzed dudes making a tiktok.
British police, by my experience are angelic beings. Until the gloves come off. That takes some extreme circumstances. Brit police in hard mode beats the US versions.
Should have added that in fact this American guy was arrested, taken to a Police Station, put in a cell and held for just under 24 hours, which is the legal limit before charges must be made or you go to court, and then released without charge. Some might say the Old Bill were having their own laugh back at this clown's expense but me? I could not possibly comment 😂
@@Rachel_M_ on the guys own video description he said "Notting Hill carnival 2017 police gets owned. Look how stupid they look when they can't answer the questions. PC Watkins was very sweet to me. They end up locking us up for assault on a female and then 20 hours later they let us go and apologize. WTF." Search "Rome Thomas" to find his channel.
Well when he gets the breakfast in the morning he'll be shocked, when he realises it's legal to serve that for Human consumption here he might realise he's not in 'murica.
The biggest joke is that this American posted the original video thinking he had "owned" the police. After he was stopped at the Notting Hill Carnival. When he ended up spending 20 hours in custody, before being released. If he had cooperated, at worst he would have been released on bail and asked to report back latter for interview.
That is just awesome!!!! I am so happy that he was done for something - obstructing an officer in his duties or wasting police time. Not so educated now... or maybe he is!!! Haha!
There's a lot of videos like this, British, American etc. I reckon stupid people used to kill themselves by accident, at a far higher rate. We baby-proof everything nowadays, hence why you end up with stupid interactions like this. They aren't killing themselves in error now. They're just making fools of themselves and inconveniencing others. Society will always carry some people.
Curious - are you American? I'm a british police officer, and this level of patience is common. Far easier to be patient and explain things to try and defuse a situation, rather than be "gung ho" and just start grabbing and having a wrestling match on the floor, totally uncessarily. In the event of any complaint it also makes you look far better if you are seen to be patient.
@@jessicaloveshiking I serve in the same force as 3 of those 4 officers. Believe me stuff like this happens a lot, it's water off a duck's back. Patience is a virtue. Let them waffle on, do what you need to do as long as you have the legal power to do so. Provided you explain it and your BWV (body worn video) is on then they can complain all they like, but if you are nothing but polite and courteous the complaint won't go anywhere. I never rise to stuff like this and just get on with the job at hand, it's hard enough to do without a totally unncessary complaint caused by over-reacting to a pompous person who has no respect for the laws of the land they are in.
Ive had an American say to me " in english that means " while stood in the middle of England (where the language was invented" while talking to me (an English man) and the best bit was she thought she could educate me! ...... she became aware that not only had she caused great offence, she also was the person in need of education on the use of the english language.
Back in the late 70's I was a teenager working in a fabulous china shop in our local rural Welsh market town. The main bus stop was right outside the shop, it's where all the big tour coaches such as 'Wallace Arnold' etc stopped to drop their tourists. I was serving two American ladies, aged approximately late 50's early 60's when one of them said to me 'you're not Welsh are you', I replied yes I am, I was born in Cardiff the capital of Wales and lived all my life within a few miles of this town, my grandparents were Welsh speaking.. This rude lady snapped back 'well you don't sound Welsh', in this town very few people sound Welsh but just outside the town, most of the farming families are Welsh speaking. I should have told her to go to North Wales if she wanted people sounding Welsh. Did she think Wales was like Disneyland and we'd all be speaking Welsh, wearing Welsh outfits, holding daffodils and chomping on leaks?
@@catherinewilliams3850 I've holidayed in wales many times it is a beautiful place!! I was stunned that there were not as many gonks running around in the hills as i had imagined either !!
@@catherinewilliams3850 my mistake, sorry. I had always thought it was gonk from being a kid !! Clearly I've misheard that 😂 😂 it's north Wales I visited the most too!!
@@jnx2003 No problem, gave me a chuckle, back in the 60's gonks were toys we had like the hair on trolls but all over with googly eyes, reading your comment I had a vision of those brightly coloured hairy critters roaming the Welsh countryside🤣🤣🤣
I'm British & wouldn't dare to talk like that to an American police officer. I'd be too afraid of having a gun or taser drawn on me or shoved against the wall and handcuffed.
I’ve only been to New York but found the police to be very approachable and helpful, even when they were warning us in a situation that could of turned out badly. I guess we looked very touristy so they were more patient, but they seemed genuinely nice and helpful. I’m not sure what they would be like in a situation like this though, and I’ve no experience of the more notorious police forces elsewhere in the US, but I think they are genuinely scared of the public because what they might have on them. They do put too much faith in the gun for sure.
@@richardedgar9670Much the same experience, I've been all over the US from West to East and North to South and always found everyone including the police to be friendly and helpful as they could be.
La policía en N. York por lo que vivido hace muchos años, es muy amable, educada con los que ellos contemplan como "buenos" ciudadanos. Pero.......terrible con los sospechosos. Aunque luego sean inocentes.😮 Es mejor obedecerles enseguida, sino te disparan. En Europa occidental , la policía no dispara, salvo raros casos en que esté en riesgo grave el policía. Y en UK no llevan armas.
95% of the world's population is probably a bit low. The percentage of the world's population outside America who see Americans this way and generally think Americans are stupid is probably closer to 99%. It is actually sad. People really do try to like Americans but Americans make it almost impossible.
@@TheChiefEngI've heard of some Americans using the Flags of beloved countries like Canada and tag it to their backpack while travelling so as to not be outed as American because of the general view of Americans.. it's mindblowing how despised Americans are compared to Canadians who are loved and made fun of in a loving way for being so wholesome, kind, polite etc..
Greetings from Vancouver 🇨🇦 This also happens here in Canada, I have some friends that are cops, and this is routine. Whenever they interact with Americans, somehow they think American law applies in Canada, but it doesn’t, I don’t know how hard this is to understand that United States is a sovereign nation so are all the other ones.
Ironically it's a type of rights called Extraterritorial Rights, similar to diplomatic immunity. Only caveat is those rights only apply to DIPLOMATS, not lay citizens. However, a great number of Americans have been conditioned through the same mentality that a lot of Roman dignitaries and military were, where they believe themselves to be above others because of their "greatness." Just as a slight addition. Plenty of Americans that act like this here in central america, are very much involved in something illegal. I wouldn't be surprised the guy in the video wasn't in fact doing something he shouldn't.
In the Czech Republic, a conversation of this kind would take 5 minutes. Then both the Americans would end in handcuffs and the minimum time they would spend in the cell at the local police station would be 48 hours. They would get bread and water, and probably only 4 hours sleep between 8-hour interrogation sessions.
GOD! You can tell the guy is trying SO HARD to make it about race. In the UK, we have a thing called a 'public order offence' in a nutshell. The police can arrest you for just being that annoying. The police have the right to request you to remain during an investigation, if you refuse and start being annoying they'll detain you, keep being annoying and they'll arrest you for a public order offence that can land you a day in jail and could possibly land you up to six months in prison.
Well, if he's a student or on a work visa it could easily get him deported too, he literally could be ruining his life just to play sovcit silly buggers. Thing is though if his mate pisses himself it will be because of this tool, all he had to do was be civilised and it would have been over in 30 seconds. He should be charged with wasting police time and be forced to pay the costs he just incurred purely to play his little ego game. It must be sad to be so pathetic that you have to pull stunts like this for little ego trips. My advice to him is this: Don't go to Hackney, you'll get skinned alive by a bunch of 12 year olds.
@nightowl5395 You're not wrong, back int' deh, where the only cameras were called kodak, they'd just tell you to stop being a smart arse, sit down, and shut up, or they'd nick you, zero patience. These days, they practically offer you tea and a biscuit be all nice until they snap. Unlike Yank cops ours don't have qualified immunity, so are 80% less corrupt without the tendency of introducing your teeth to your rectum.
I’m Canadian, and this routinely happens up here as well, it’s funny and tragic both at the same time how incredibly pompous and arrogant Americans can be when they’re in another country
An excellent example of why Americans are despised/laughed at around the world - it's because of people like this guy. In his home country, with that sort of attitude, the police would have been very much harder on him.
I have personally witnessed other Americans do dumb shit like this, when I was in Germany. The absolute DUMBEST thing I heard one say to a police officer was, "You can't do this to ME! I'M AN AMERICAN!!" I just watched from afar, as I wasn't involved, and I kept my mouth shut, and let my first wife do all the talking (she was German, so she spoke the language) at the place we were at. I did not want to give any indicators that I was an American, and could be associated with that dumbass. Though, the Gen-Xer in me desperately wanted to yell out, "Oh, YES THEY CAN!" Many/most Americans have this sense of entitlement when visiting other countries, and personally, I don't understand it. When I was there, I felt myself a Guest of the country, and acted accordingly. While I wasn't perfect, I did pay attention to how "natives" acted, and emulated that as best I could. It's like being in someone's house.... you do NOT make the rules there, you follow the rules established to the best of your ability. In Germany, I was legally allowed to walk around in public, and even be on public transportation, with an open beer. The thing was, you had to, you know, not act like a total drunken dipshit. So I drank freely in public, and was happy about it.
Yup i ussually do what the locals do. Went to the Us last years since decades. rented a car anf the first 100 miles saw everybody passing me when i kept to the speed limit especially in a construction earia. After that i went ok if its after working hours i'm just gonna do what the locales do. Its just to dangerous to follow the rules.
It is NOT a prank. I have seen this happen here in Australia. There was an incident (bank robbery), everyone in the vicinity was held up by the police investigating. Simple questions were asked, answered and we went on with our lives after contact details obtained (just in case). BUT for an American Couple! They totally carried on like this... are we free to go, are we being detained, why are we not being allowed to go... I know I looked at that couple in sheer bloody disgust, and I was NOT the only one! I don't know what happened after, but I seriously felt sorry for our police!
The thing is they don't even have American law right. All this " are we being detained" stuff comes from Terry Stops, that is being stopped in the street for "fitting a description" and the like, for which a threshold of being detained rather than a consensual conversation has to have reasonable articulable suspicion. A whole different law applies to actual crime scenes, which this was and so was the example you gave. In this case the American was standing in the front yard of a house in which there was a party and an assault took place. No police force can function without the power to detain everyone, innocent, victim or perpetrator at a crime scene for the purposes of gathering evidence. Even if this person had been in the US or in your case, they had no right to wander off, there was no requirement for reasonable suspicion, and they'd have been nicked if they refused to comply.
What gets me is that it's such a small issue they're being detained over. If they're not involved in the incident, all they had to do was to cooperate and it would be been likely sorted out in 5 or 10 mins. But instead they decide to argue over and over for no reason.
To make you feel a little better that all isn't lost, I am a volunteer firefighter in rural Australia and we attended a motor vehicle accident recently involving a young Texan male on a work visa. He admitted he dozed off at the wheel of his employers vehicle and was being questioned by local and highway patrol officers about the incident. You couldn't fault the young guy when it came to manners and respect ! Cooperated fully and after all the paperwork, breath tests and ambulance medical check, they helped him get to where he was staying. Must of had a good upbringing.
@@BillyBobJoeSnr sadly that's the reality and I don't like it either. I lived in the States from 1984 until 1998 and it was such an awesome time to live in America. I miss that time...
@@hilpi75 I emigrated to the UK and considered returning just before the banking crisis of 2008. The entire family is quite glad we never did... I have experienced both education systems and was horrified to find by the end of highschool the US students were 3-4 years behind the UK children.
UK and especially the Met Police do try and be more patient with tourists, if he had been a Brit, it's more than likely he would have been told "sit down and shut up, if you attempt to leave, you will be arrested"... and rightly so. Let them do their job and then you can go on your way.
I am a retired Bobby, you must be one or read the same instruction I was given in early 60's .. Never argue with an idiot, they're more experienced than you
With a lifetime ban NEVER to step foot our our soil ever again. He was a total rectum. look up translation for last word. polite way of saying what I really wanted to call him?
In Italy they would be already in front of a judge for "interrupting a public service", actually in custody at the police station after the first 5 minutes.
In a situation like this, when you've just arrived on the scene and information is sketchy you're initially looking for people showing signs of agitation and/or aggression. This guy instantly made himself a person of interest by behaving as he did
If it's any consolation Connor, he ended up spending 20 hours in custody, He made himself liable to arrest for numerous reasons; obstructing a police officer(s) in carrying out their duties, a public order offence, wasting police time and resources etc.
Ironic, all he had to do was chill and he would have been free to go quickly. What an utter idiot, as soon as I watched this video I knew they would get him for obstruction.
They should've held him for another 20 hours just to teach him a lesson. As an American, this is completely cringe. I won't apologize for this persons behavior - but I will say that there are still some of us who respect the laws and sovereignty of the countries to which we travel.
Where I live and work means I deal with tourists from all over the world pretty much 24/7 and I swear to god I had 3 very similar conversations just today and you bet they were all American 😂 Canadians are hilarious because they are so quick to assure people that they aren't American and it's even funnier when everyone else visibly relaxes and will even say out loud "thank god" 😂 Americans don't own stupidity but they sure do it better than anyone else
@@yarrowbumblefoot8877 Unfortunately, so do a lot of Americans, as well wearing as the Canadian Flag on their backpack, so they don't get treated like 'Murrricns'. They're the ones who make it difficult for REAL Canadians. I ran into one when I was working in Namibia....who, when I asked..."oh, what part of Canada are you from", as she had a thick American accent....swiftly changed the subject.
When I was young almost the entire world thought America was great. Over the last 20 years that perception has been completely reversed, even among the US’ closest allies. It’s not that we think all Americans are arrogant morons, but we’ve realised that an awful lot are.
So, the guy is rude, flat out states he's an entitled ignorant foreigner, threatens the police officers.... It's like he insists on making himself look as guilty as possible...
I would have arrested him for futher investigation, bc he is obstructing police work by asking the same questions on which he already got an answer. That's suspicious behavior for me, at least abnormal.
For those who want a quick summary: - "Are we being detained?" ... "Yes".... "Why are we being detained?".. "Because you're a suspect in a crime!"... "So why are we being detained, You haven't told us?" ... "Yes you are, and we have told you!".... "So why are we being detained?" ... "We've just told you!" .... "I'm am American, so I'm smarter than you. Why are we being detained?". Ad infinitum. Let's hope this guy doesn't procreate, for the sake of America and the world.
"I'm American so I know" the arrogance, unbelievable. The British police are so polite and if an American tried that here, they would be sorted very quickly. Our cops are armed and have less patience 🇦🇺
Every time I've ever been to Europe, I had a schedule to keep in order to be able to board various flights or trains to the next European country. So, arguing with law enforcement would have jeopardized my ability to leave the U.K., and to be able to visit the other countries that I had on my itinerary. I guess if someone is only planning to only visit the U.K., then being argumentative with law enforcement seems appropriate to them, but I go out of my way to stay out of trouble when I'm on foreign soil.
@Scorch1028 so basically you wouldn't argue because it would mess up your schedule. How about you don't argue out of courtesy and respect for the country that you're in. Let me guess - American?
UK police are trained to de-escalate if at all possible (until of course, that's no longer tenable - working out exactly where that line lies is why it's a tough job).
He is asking to use the bathroom of which is the crime scene. Even a casual watcher of Law and Order knows this is not an option but this guy is an AMURICUNT and knows better.
I was just waiting for “you can’t do this to me - I’m American!” I tell you what though, if I was ever in the US and got detained for questioning by the police there is NO WAY I would argue with them or be this rude or annoying.
There's a dangerous myth that "nothing terrible will happen to you in a foreign country, if you have a U.S. passport". All kinds of horrible things can happen to Americans in foreign countries.
As a retired Met. Police Officer (same as on video) the officers patience are more than mine were. This gent attempted to leave he would be lifted for further investigations.
"we don't claim him" Sorry Connor mate he is yours 😂😂 I saw this on the American guys own channel. The comments section was hysterical. He thought he was being really clever but the comments showed he was an idiot.
@@skurkela Looked it up. "Rome Thomas" shared this 6 years ago titled "American vs. British. Police Gets Owned." 🤣 In the description he claims they look stupid and can't answer his questions, and after locking them up for 20h. they let him go with an apology. Highly doubt that, and it doesn't look like he learnt anything from this either.
he can't be that educated if the police kept having to tell him the same thing over and over again, the police have the right to detain you without arresting you to find out what's gone on
I think his initial approach was very clever. If I were a UK cop and he would have said "I'm American I know.", that would have sent me into a laughing fit not being able to recover for at least 15 minutes. Therefore he would have been able to escape.
I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia and my neighbours were from the United States. They complained about almost everything. What made their attitude even more insufferable was how they invariably prefaced their complaints with 'In America, we do XYZ', as if everywhere ought to emulate America.
Do you think Saudi Arabia would be a better place if it emulated America or any European country. I think it would. You will also find Arabs including Saudi Arabians do what they like when they are in the UK even if it's against the UK law or forbidden in their religion. The British are to scared to stop them in case it causes racial offence or in some cases loss of investment.
When you enter another country, and present your passport it is implicit that you are agreeing to abide by that countries laws. Once they have finished questioning this guy as they intended, they should take him straight to the airport and put him on a flight. No stops to collect his luggage, just straight out. He is an alien and has shown a refusal to respect the countries laws and officers of the law.
My latest experience with two Americans, also one black and one white, was at Macdonalds in Guangzhou, China. China has one of the lowest levels of English in the world and it bodes us well to remember it and respect it. Black guys says to white guy, "Time for her English lesson!", referring to the cashier, and proceeds to try and place his order in English. It soon becomes apparent that she cannot understand and he goes off about being American, English being "the official world language" and demanding service in English. They were mock angry and giggling at the same time, while the poor woman was in tears. I "gently" suggested that they eat elsewhere.
@@Surfingsilver Lol ther Chinese Police ,,, basically their army would have bitch slapped them into the back of a van and away they went . China doesnt fk about or give a sh!t that your from anywhere other than China ,, they don't even treat their own people well. "i'm an American Citizen" means about as much to them as telling them you make clogs for a living. It needs to be added to the US Education system that being an arse over sea's will get you at best thrown in jail or at worst beated, robbed and treated like shit depending on the country & then thrown in jail.
Now I understand why the American police don't waste their time with people like him... very disrespectful, annoying and ignorant then having the gall to call himself educated 😂😂😂
UA-cam has plenty of examples of Americans being way way more rude and entitled to their own cops, and the cops being unbelievably patient. The idiots turn a polite enquiry into, not only arrest, but resisting arrest... Screaming and kicking as they get tazered, then cuffed... then struggling, and kicking as they get put in the back of the patrol car. Hours of entertainment on here. Some of the darker moments though, involve very very unwise moves, that end as badly as bad can be
He should have realised that everything, including the law, was different here. He wasn't being screamed at. He wasn't having a gun pointed at him. He wasn't immediately cuffed for the "police's protection". "Arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package. How very efficient of you." - Londo Molari, Babylon 5.
I laughed at the IMMEDIATE apology. One sentence. That's all it took. Four words. No need for more, we knew EXACTLY what was going on and oh boy. I thought I was ready for that karen-level conversation. I was, in fact, not.
Im british, i have had serious issues with my police, so i tend to side with the suspect, this case is an exception however. And don't sweat it, you don't bare any responsibility.
In the UK you can be arrested on “suspicion” of committing or even suspicion of being about to commit a crime. They don’t have to have proof at that time, simply suspicion. The police can lock you up, take your fingerprints etc, conduct further investigations then release you later without charging you. You’re probably better off avoiding being arrested in the first place.
Unfortunately I don't think this is a joke. I remember being told in Central London by an American that I did not know my own city. He'd asked for directions - looking for a particular shop that he insisted was on Haymarket, but I knew it wasn't. After he insisted again that he was right and I was wrong, I told him to go look for the shop and "good luck with that". I've found Americans to be either really awful or really nice. There seems to be no in-between.
Lol, one of them tried to tell me he knew more about Scotland economy than me, when foolishly comparing the US defence budget with Scotland's (we don't have a defence budget) When i went to an American school they taught us how to read and write with cassette and headphones. I think that explains a lot
Sometimes I think we're kind of collateral damage in their own internal "culture wars" because i've run into people from the US online that were obviously just repeating something they'd seen on Fox News or similar (bizarre claims like the UK only records murders where the police have a suspect, which is why our homicide rate is so much lower than the US ??). (sometimes it's also just arrogance though, like the American telling me he knew more about how a Scottish accent sounds because his grandad was from Scotland. Kept on insisting, even after I told him _i'm_ from Scotland. Mostly lovely people in my experience but the old adage "They do everything bigger in America" clearly _also_ applies to twattishness :)
I remember a Ukrainian woman in an interview saying Americans like being exceptional. Whether its exceptionally good or exceptionally bad, doesnt matter, as long as its exceptional. 😂 mind you, she didnt say that to sh#t on the Americans, she just noted as she saw it
Here's the paradox. I often see film shots of American citizens stopped by police in their own country. And they are extra polite to the cops and call them "Sir" ! That tells me they are intimidated by their own police. In the UK we usually respect the police but would *NEVER* call them "Sir". They have equal status to the public.
You’re not watching enough American videos. Look up sovereign citizens and first amendment auditors for videos of obnoxious interactions with law enforcement
"I'm an American, so I know." We Americans rarely know the fine details of American law when we are in our own country. He's just lucky he wasn't acting like this in Russia or China.
I once saw an american get angry because an italian restaurant in Italy wouldn't accept US DOLLARS. He couldn't understand that the US dollar isn't used everywhere in the world.
There is an Irish one where the guy is quoting the US Constitution at the Garda . The cops were the most patient ever but they eventually impounded his car. His mums car actually.
There is another one where he had removed the car number plates because he didn't need to display them (also no insurance from memory) because he was a sovereign 'Murican citizen. He claimed US law was also Irish Law, the gardai were incredibly patient with him as well. Irish Demon I think posted that one.
I think there's something about the sovcit crap that attracts mentally unwell people. Nobody with a functioning brain would attempt that even in America, let alone a completely unrelated country that hasn't even heard of that nonsense before.
I've seen that one. After they tow his car they offer him, his partner and his kid a lift home but he turns them down because he doesn't want to "contract" with them. So then end up standing around in the cold outside a convenience store. What a Muppet.
Americans thinking they know the UK law or that their citizenship has any affect on the laws they follow whilst in the UK is bloody infuriating. This massively affected me as I am an airsoft player and had a large collection of RIF firearms. (Bb guns that arent two tone). Anyway, i was in my living room sorting out my kit for the upcoming gameday and my housemate was interested in the sport. He asked if he could have a look at my glock and i said sure. Im always happy to introduce people to my hobby. I went to the toilet and left my housemate looking at the guns and what not. When i returned to the living room I saw him with my glock outside the house on the street. I sprinted out the house, took it off him and asked if he was just stupid or suicidal as holding that out and about was an effective way of getting armed police pointing their guns at him. 5 minutes later I get a knock on the door from the firearms officers locked and loaded and prepared to deal with a real gun. (Fucking scary). After being cuffed and searched I explained what happened. The result was my £7k collection of RIFs confiscated for misuse and a £500 fine. My housemate recieved a court date which resulted in a huge fine (i dont know how much but it was a lot and resulted in him not being able to afford to study in the UK). My housemate started gobbing off at the officers and explaining how pathetic UK gun law is, how carrying a RIF wouldnt cause public fear and distress as its a toy. (This is in a country where there maybe like 5 guns per 100 people and even then pistols, with a barrel less than 12 inches, are banned.) When he argued that it wouldnt cause distress the firearms officer explained that they had 4 phonecalls from the public expressing concern about a man carrying a firearm, it caused distress. He then said that the UK already removed his rights by not allowing him to bring his personal firearm from america and now they're not allowing him to play with a toy. (He was getting quite aggressive at this point). His behavior also added resisting arrest and antisocial behavior as he was swearing at the cops. And then to add insult to injury once we were released, yes we both got taken down to the station, i said to him that he owes me £7k which we can set up some kind of payment plan for as i knew he was going to have an expensive time coming up given what had just happened and that £7k is a lot of money that i dont expect somebody to be able to just hand over. His response was its not his fault the UK has pathetic gun laws and that he wouldnt pay me back. He left, i never got a penny from him. Good riddance tbh, never before have I felt as disrespected both personally with the refusal to pay me back but also disrespected in terms of my countries culture and laws. Yes, not being able to open the bag that has the RIF in public can be inconvenient but that foesnt mean I dont support the law in this way.
Thank you guys for your kind words. So, due to the incident last year I had my UKARA membership suspended. However, after having a meeting with my local police force the suspension will be over at the end of this coming April. I will be able to rebuild my collection thank God. However, it is on the condition that if the police are called out again for anything to do with my RIFs I will be permanently banned from owning RIFs in the UK.
The biggest laugh is that eventually they were both arrested, spent the night in a cell and released the next morning without charge. I understand the police apologised but I suspect it was a *very* polite British apology. 😏 Anyway, happy New Year, Connor.
But a shilling says he didn’t understand the nuance or the sarcasm contained in the apology, and will have taken it at face value and therefore learnt nothing. Poor soul. I hope he throws his passport away when he gets home and confines his ignorance to his home nation.
He,s lucky the cop didn’t just say your acting suspicious are you carrying anything you shouldn’t be? Search time then residence would have him down the station and strip searched with the rubber glove 🤣
Simple answer, an American. I know I shouldn't tar all Americans with the same brush but I used to work in Oxford and had to deal with Americans on a daily basis and unfortunately most have come across as rude, obnoxious, arrogant and entitled.
If he had just co-operated and stopped wasting time by saying the same thing over and over, he could have answered any questions and probably been allowed to leave. Couldn't believe the arrogance of someone talking down to the police (who are just doing their job) in that tone, when you are a visitor in another country.
@@kalebdaark100 From memory he wasn't his mate, they didn't even know each other according to comments on another video. He just decided to butt in without even knowing if the other bloke was guilty of the assault or not.
Not the only video of an American trying to "own" the police in the UK unfortunately. You can just see it on the polices faces thinking "is this person for real?"
The original appears to be "American Vs British. Police Gets Owned". The poster says he was jailed for 20 hours. I'd love to see him try the same stunt in China or Russia.
i mean american citizen just act like the american gouverment xD calling other nations not going by international law and threatenin with international court, while themself not accepting either of it xD ur citizen act like ur gourverment shows them to act @@alexbuckenham1663
@@zedcarr6128 No…British people don’t assume to know the laws in other countries lol. Are you kidding? We understand that laws are different everywhere.
Not true. How often do British football fans fall foul of the law in other countries? Not only that, they make me embarrassed to be British with their behaviour. I'm Ex-Armed forces and I ALWAYS showed respect in all the dozens of countries I visited because I was a guest in their country. @@pommiebears
He was lucky to act out like this in the UK, In plenty of other Liberal European Democracies it would more likely go bad for him, try this attitude in France for example.
My English mother married my father who is American. My dad died when I was a toddler. The upshot of this is that my mum needed her family round her after my dad’s death so she brought me up in England.I went over to visit my relatives when I was 14 years old. I’m not glad my dad died but that left me to be raised in England and really happy about that as I remember that most of the people I met in the USA are very arrogant.
I had an American lady tell me that the language I had been speaking all my life, about 55 years, IN England, wasn't actually English! My family has lived in England for many hundreds of years, so I was pretty sure it was!!! When I replied that we English invented the English language (the clue was in the name!), she said that only Americans spoke true English. What we English were speaking was only 'British' and hardly anybody spoke that now! It was at this point that I succumbed to a fit of the giggles!!! She was so incredibly fierce about it. She believed this rubbish so passionately! There was no point in trying to reason with her! 🙄🇬🇧😱🇬🇧😂🇬🇧😕🏴🙈🏴☹️🏴
To be fair though most wouldn't argue the law with foreign cop because it will never end well, if that stupid yank tried that in Spain he'd find himself in a police cell pretty quick.
Unfortunately too many Americans actually believe their laws extend to the rest of the world!
What is even funnier, they claim common law in their own country. Common law is from the English Magna Carta. They live in a republic that has its own constitution, yet they claim a 800 year policy from another country applies to them in their own country.
Well they are the world police 😂😂😂
A lot of them figure out the "hard way" that it's dangerous to do stupid things in a foreign country. Look at Otto Warmbier, who thought it would be cool to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel in North Korea. Other naive Americans travel to places where they're likely to have drugs "planted in their luggage" at the airport. Then airport security busts them, and they get 25-year sentences.
@@CJGAMES4202nah the world lunkheads.
They ALL think American laws overrule the entire planet. I married an American whose mother was a judge, in LA. Believe me, I am now very much a born again divorcee.
America, love it or leave it I left it. I spent a few years in that country and I assure you it is certainly the most lawless and corrupt country in the West when it comes to law.
To all Americans..... the phrase "I'm an American " is not going to go as well as you think it will while travelling overseas.... We lose all respect we had for you as we immediately think you are one of those ignorant Americans that think they are the only country with freedom and laws....eg. I was in Thailand on a tour holiday. There was different tour buses for different language groups. One for English one for Germans one for Arabic and so on. When we boarded the English speaking tour bus, the tour operator asked "does everyone here speak English?". Then from the back of the bus some American goes "I don't speak English, I speak American". There was a massive audible "uuugghh" from just about everyone in the bus and everyone turned to the American and gave him the stare down. I've never seen a guy shrink into his seat so much and he was the but of our jokes the whole tour.....
I have an American friend who always tells people he’s Canadian for these very reasons!
Someone should have said “ You got on the English speaking bus, now get off”
I speak Murican!
Ok so, no English then, so please leave the bus.
@@carriageofnoreturn.1881 Oh, so THAT's the guy who's been screwing up Canada's reputation all over the world. And here I thought that it was the Canadian Dictator, Justine Turdeau.
@@johndickie5577 ha ha ha , brilliant!!
If I was one of the police officers I would become more and more convinced that those two guys were involved in the crime.
I've seen elsewhere he didn't even know the other bloke so had no idea if he might have been guilty or not. New level of stupidity if true.
According to his UA-cam channel, in the end he was actually arrested.
@@SimonsvidsI really really hope that’s true 🤞
As a non American I can tell you the most common reaction to "I'm American" is "Ahhhhh thanks for the warning"
LOL! I'll remember to use that one…
I would say 'I will use simple English then'
I actually witnessed something like that. I, German, was in London for 3 weeks on a language course when I was 18 or 19, about 16 years ago. Roaming the city in our free time, we wanted to take the tube at Oxford Street Station, but it was closed due to an unspecified incident. There were a few bobbies guarding the entrance who explained the situation, basically „Sorry, this station is closed due to an emergency, please use either x station over that direction for y line or z station this direction for w line.“
For some reason I still don‘t understand, a guy started arguing with the constable that he was free to go wherever he wanted in public, he didn‘t accept that the constable was actually _police_ because „you don‘t even have a gun, you‘re security at most“ and more - clearly talking in an American accent.
The constable kept calm and simply stated, and I remember that verbatim: „Sir, I understand that you are American, so let me put that simply: This is England, not America. I _am_ police. Police not always have gun in England. You go away or get in trouble. Understand, or do I need to make s sketch?“
@@gi0nbecell "Understand, or do I need to make a sketch?“ LOL!!! Your anecdote made my day…! 😂
I am American. I was in Germany in 2017, and went through several countries in 2022. I have to admit that I had a pleasant experience with everyone on both my trips, but felt anxiety about them first finding I was an American!😔 I like to think of myself as a person who gets along with other people, and is interested in other ethnicities and cultures, not rude.
Just imagine living in a WHOLE COUNTRY of people like this! Respect to the gentle manners of this patient lady-official. Just beautiful. Australia
Officer, not lady-official. Officer.
That's not how we spell Hole❤😂
He kept asking many times "are we free to go" even after the officer told him the first time that he wasn't. He kept interrupting her attempts to explain what was going on, and seemed to imagine that he knew all about UK policing powers and procedures. His rudeness and hostility were truly cringe worthy.
At the very least this is "Obstruction"
I felt he was particularly patronising and condescending towards the young female officer. However, he had shown himself for what he is in this footage, and there are numerous cringeworthy qualities he displays throughout.
He was trying to be intimidating but it wasnt working the officer walked off screamed banged her head against a wall then came back 😂 🤣
If this American is this obnoxious when he's "sober", I can only imagine what an a** he is when he's high or drunk. He's probably been punched in the face a dozen times on U.S. soil.
Seems to be an American thing to ask the same question over and over until they get the answer they want.
"I'm American, so I know." Yeah, whenever I want an expert's opinion about legal matters in a European country, I ask an American tourist.
Question is why does an American tourist know so much about another countries policing, shows me he’s probably been up to something, I’d like to know how many’s counties policing he learns before traveling
@@expatmooseHe doesn't know shit mate. He's using US auditor lingo to try and pass in the UK. We don't ride like that. We've got different issues with policing which affect primarily the same social demographics.
He's a bullish twat who thinks he understands UK law because he knows enough about US law to stay out of cuffs.
Don't forget to ask them about vaccines, socialism, or what really happened in WWII.
@@expatmoosehe says he knows..... but he doesn't....
He refers to American laws and American police standards..... but they don't apply in England..... or any other country in the world.....
@@stunni72 there was a little sarcasm in my comment, if a foreigner claims to know (wether or not true) the rules of other countries it shows me he’s up to mischief in other countries and perhaps 5he police were right to stop him, he must have know to behave like that in USA he’d have got his faced slammed in the ground, our nice British police who are often a push over did not do that, he used it to his advantage plus he was at first talking to woman police officers and he tried to ridicule them
Having been to the USA many times on business and also having met several Americans here in the UK that guy demonstrated two failings of so many Americans:
1. A total ignorance of how other countries do things.
2. An assumption that other countries do things in exactly the same way that they are done in the USA.
He was wrong.
Just means that the police will speak to you as if you are a toddler having a temper tantrum!
@@AM1465 They don't have reasonable suspicion. They said they were detaining him because he might be a witness. That's completely illegal. You can't detain a witness, suspected or otherwise.
If you have reasonable suspicion that he's committed a crime, you have to inform him both what the reasonable suspicion and crime in question are.
You missed one - the seeming inability to shut up for long enough for the officer to actually explain anything, and constantly talking over them and repeating the same question over and over even though that one has already been answered.
@@kier1568
Not here in the UK it isn't. And I should know, I was a Special Constable for 18 years.
You appear to be applying US principles to the UK. Just like the idiot in the video.
@@DavidStruveDesigns they answered by admitting that he was being unlawfully detained as a potential witness
Not to mention all the Americans who turn up to Sydney Airport and then want to go through passport control through the "Citizens" lanes rather than the "International Visitors" lanes. Thick as short planks.
Haha, Many thanks to John Howard who was happy to portray Aus as the 51st State of America when he was PM.
How dare you be rude to short planks like that!
@@coalfacechris1336 What a drongo as our favourite cousin's to the UK the Aussie's would call him? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Are you serious? That actually happens? I'm sorry, I might be ignorant about the relationship between AUS and US, but where does that entintlement/idea come from?
@@ohrusty Because Americans think they're the citizens and everyone else are foreigners even when they're abroad.
It actually aggrevates me how the guy recording interrupted the women at every turn and never let them get a full sentence out but he barely interrupted the man
He's clearly sexist
Incel?
I wondered if that's partly why she went to get the man (tho he was also senior). When faced with the kind of man who can't hear a woman talking sometimes it's easier to have a man tell him exactly the same thing. Annoying.. but life is short.
@@rayaqueen9657 sadly though by doing that that's reinforcing sexist stereotypes that women need a man to explain stuff for them. I get why she did it but sadly with a potential misogynist like him that's just gonna reinforce his sexist views
@@NatashaWarden agreed. Some guys there's no hope for tho. Or rather, my time is too precious to waste on them!
Sometimes it also makes the point. ..You obviously can't hear anything I'm saying so I'll get a man for you to say the same thing..
If this is not a spoof then the coppers had the patience of a saint and the American had entitled arrogance and pig ignorance beyond belief. EDIT - It's not a spoof, on the original video the poster said that he got 20 hours in the cells under a video called "American Vs British. Police Gets Owned." The only person who got "owned" in this video is the one who ended up in the slammer.
No this was real. He even posted it on his own YT channel thinking he 'owned the Brits'. Well the comments section as you can guess was hysterically funny.
@@1chish I agree, I really get annoyed at Americans.
It's not a spoof
This isn't a spoof. You'd get done in the UK for pretending to be cops like this without express permission which you might get for a movie after applying, but not for some kinda buzzed dudes making a tiktok.
British police, by my experience are angelic beings. Until the gloves come off. That takes some extreme circumstances. Brit police in hard mode beats the US versions.
Should have added that in fact this American guy was arrested, taken to a Police Station, put in a cell and held for just under 24 hours, which is the legal limit before charges must be made or you go to court, and then released without charge.
Some might say the Old Bill were having their own laugh back at this clown's expense but me? I could not possibly comment 😂
Where did you see that? I've only seen the version where the video is cut while the interaction os going on.
@@Rachel_M_ on the guys own video description he said "Notting Hill carnival 2017 police gets owned. Look how stupid they look when they can't answer the questions. PC Watkins was very sweet to me. They end up locking us up for assault on a female and then 20 hours later they let us go and apologize. WTF." Search "Rome Thomas" to find his channel.
Well when he gets the breakfast in the morning he'll be shocked, when he realises it's legal to serve that for Human consumption here he might realise he's not in 'murica.
@@darthwiizius
Last time I spent a night in the cells I got a sausage sandwich that was hard enough to chisel through the walls.
@@Rachel_M_
Ah yes, the bread made from concrete instead of flour, just be happy you didn't get the egg.
The biggest joke is that this American posted the original video thinking he had "owned" the police. After he was stopped at the Notting Hill Carnival. When he ended up spending 20 hours in custody, before being released. If he had cooperated, at worst he would have been released on bail and asked to report back latter for interview.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Karma is a birch.
thanks
That is just awesome!!!! I am so happy that he was done for something - obstructing an officer in his duties or wasting police time. Not so educated now... or maybe he is!!! Haha!
@@WindowswatcherOnly if he learned from his lesson.....
There's a lot of videos like this, British, American etc.
I reckon stupid people used to kill themselves by accident, at a far higher rate. We baby-proof everything nowadays, hence why you end up with stupid interactions like this.
They aren't killing themselves in error now. They're just making fools of themselves and inconveniencing others.
Society will always carry some people.
“I’m an American so I know” my entire body shrivelled in embarrassment
Curious - are you American?
I'm a british police officer, and this level of patience is common. Far easier to be patient and explain things to try and defuse a situation, rather than be "gung ho" and just start grabbing and having a wrestling match on the floor, totally uncessarily. In the event of any complaint it also makes you look far better if you are seen to be patient.
@@thefiestaguy8831 nope I’m a Brit and my sympathies were entirely with the officers trying to remain so patient with him
@@jessicaloveshiking I serve in the same force as 3 of those 4 officers. Believe me stuff like this happens a lot, it's water off a duck's back. Patience is a virtue.
Let them waffle on, do what you need to do as long as you have the legal power to do so. Provided you explain it and your BWV (body worn video) is on then they can complain all they like, but if you are nothing but polite and courteous the complaint won't go anywhere.
I never rise to stuff like this and just get on with the job at hand, it's hard enough to do without a totally unncessary complaint caused by over-reacting to a pompous person who has no respect for the laws of the land they are in.
Ive had an American say to me " in english that means " while stood in the middle of England (where the language was invented" while talking to me (an English man) and the best bit was she thought she could educate me! ...... she became aware that not only had she caused great offence, she also was the person in need of education on the use of the english language.
Back in the late 70's I was a teenager working in a fabulous china shop in our local rural Welsh market town. The main bus stop was right outside the shop, it's where all the big tour coaches such as 'Wallace Arnold' etc stopped to drop their tourists. I was serving two American ladies, aged approximately late 50's early 60's when one of them said to me 'you're not Welsh are you', I replied yes I am, I was born in Cardiff the capital of Wales and lived all my life within a few miles of this town, my grandparents were Welsh speaking.. This rude lady snapped back 'well you don't sound Welsh', in this town very few people sound Welsh but just outside the town, most of the farming families are Welsh speaking. I should have told her to go to North Wales if she wanted people sounding Welsh. Did she think Wales was like Disneyland and we'd all be speaking Welsh, wearing Welsh outfits, holding daffodils and chomping on leaks?
@@catherinewilliams3850 I've holidayed in wales many times it is a beautiful place!! I was stunned that there were not as many gonks running around in the hills as i had imagined either !!
@@jnx2003 🤣 The word you're looking for is Gogs (taken from Gogledd meaning North) not gonks, 🤣it's what we South Walians call the North Walians.
@@catherinewilliams3850 my mistake, sorry. I had always thought it was gonk from being a kid !! Clearly I've misheard that 😂 😂 it's north Wales I visited the most too!!
@@jnx2003 No problem, gave me a chuckle, back in the 60's gonks were toys we had like the hair on trolls but all over with googly eyes, reading your comment I had a vision of those brightly coloured hairy critters roaming the Welsh countryside🤣🤣🤣
Dogs will bark. Fleas will bite. Americans will be Americans. I’m just grateful that the Atlantic exists.
😂😂😂😂😂LMAO Dog bless the Atlantic 😂😂😂😂
Funny Americans also bark and bite.
The Americans think that they won the war of independance, we think of it as a lucky escape
Americans will America xD
@@avictorbell2835 the police were quite polite and reasonable. The police in America can also detain persons while getting the facts worked out.
I'm British & wouldn't dare to talk like that to an American police officer. I'd be too afraid of having a gun or taser drawn on me or shoved against the wall and handcuffed.
I’ve only been to New York but found the police to be very approachable and helpful, even when they were warning us in a situation that could of turned out badly. I guess we looked very touristy so they were more patient, but they seemed genuinely nice and helpful. I’m not sure what they would be like in a situation like this though, and I’ve no experience of the more notorious police forces elsewhere in the US, but I think they are genuinely scared of the public because what they might have on them. They do put too much faith in the gun for sure.
@@richardedgar9670Much the same experience, I've been all over the US from West to East and North to South and always found everyone including the police to be friendly and helpful as they could be.
La policía en N. York por lo que vivido hace muchos años, es muy amable, educada con los que ellos contemplan como "buenos" ciudadanos. Pero.......terrible con los sospechosos. Aunque luego sean inocentes.😮
Es mejor obedecerles enseguida, sino te disparan. En Europa occidental , la policía no dispara, salvo raros casos en que esté en riesgo grave el policía. Y en UK no llevan armas.
America is basically 18th century British laws..they will eventually catch up..
@@shamteal8614Strange because you’re a 10 year old UA-cam account with only 2 comments on it..🤡
This is pretty much how the other 95% of the world's population see Americans.
Happy New Year Connor. Wishing you a good one.
Well said.
95% of the world's population is probably a bit low. The percentage of the world's population outside America who see Americans this way and generally think Americans are stupid is probably closer to 99%.
It is actually sad. People really do try to like Americans but Americans make it almost impossible.
Indeed, go to the Brussels Grand Place during tourists season, order a coffee and simply listen, it’s a lot worse than in this video !
Idiocy.
@@TheChiefEngI've heard of some Americans using the Flags of beloved countries like Canada and tag it to their backpack while travelling so as to not be outed as American because of the general view of Americans.. it's mindblowing how despised Americans are compared to Canadians who are loved and made fun of in a loving way for being so wholesome, kind, polite etc..
Greetings from Vancouver 🇨🇦
This also happens here in Canada, I have some friends that are cops, and this is routine. Whenever they interact with Americans, somehow they think American law applies in Canada, but it doesn’t, I don’t know how hard this is to understand that United States is a sovereign nation so are all the other ones.
Ironically it's a type of rights called Extraterritorial Rights, similar to diplomatic immunity. Only caveat is those rights only apply to DIPLOMATS, not lay citizens. However, a great number of Americans have been conditioned through the same mentality that a lot of Roman dignitaries and military were, where they believe themselves to be above others because of their "greatness." Just as a slight addition. Plenty of Americans that act like this here in central america, are very much involved in something illegal. I wouldn't be surprised the guy in the video wasn't in fact doing something he shouldn't.
In the Czech Republic, a conversation of this kind would take 5 minutes. Then both the Americans would end in handcuffs and the minimum time they would spend in the cell at the local police station would be 48 hours. They would get bread and water, and probably only 4 hours sleep between 8-hour interrogation sessions.
GOD! You can tell the guy is trying SO HARD to make it about race. In the UK, we have a thing called a 'public order offence' in a nutshell. The police can arrest you for just being that annoying. The police have the right to request you to remain during an investigation, if you refuse and start being annoying they'll detain you, keep being annoying and they'll arrest you for a public order offence that can land you a day in jail and could possibly land you up to six months in prison.
Shame between them non of them remembered that. If he'd been white they might have.
Well, if he's a student or on a work visa it could easily get him deported too, he literally could be ruining his life just to play sovcit silly buggers. Thing is though if his mate pisses himself it will be because of this tool, all he had to do was be civilised and it would have been over in 30 seconds. He should be charged with wasting police time and be forced to pay the costs he just incurred purely to play his little ego game. It must be sad to be so pathetic that you have to pull stunts like this for little ego trips. My advice to him is this: Don't go to Hackney, you'll get skinned alive by a bunch of 12 year olds.
Yes he is, isn't he...trying to make it into a race issue 🤨 The patience of those Police Officers is remarkable.
@nightowl5395 You're not wrong, back int' deh, where the only cameras were called kodak, they'd just tell you to stop being a smart arse, sit down, and shut up, or they'd nick you, zero patience. These days, they practically offer you tea and a biscuit be all nice until they snap. Unlike Yank cops ours don't have qualified immunity, so are 80% less corrupt without the tendency of introducing your teeth to your rectum.
I would like to see an American try this bullshit on Finnish cops. They really don't care about any nonsense.
An excellent example of why Americans are treated with suspicion all around the world.
I’m Canadian, and this routinely happens up here as well, it’s funny and tragic both at the same time how incredibly pompous and arrogant Americans can be when they’re in another country
Dunning Kruger effect is having no education or experience in a related topic, yet being some form of expert at the same time.
Contempt more than suspicion
It actually makes him look suspicious too 😂
An excellent example of why Americans are despised/laughed at around the world - it's because of people like this guy. In his home country, with that sort of attitude, the police would have been very much harder on him.
I have personally witnessed other Americans do dumb shit like this, when I was in Germany. The absolute DUMBEST thing I heard one say to a police officer was, "You can't do this to ME! I'M AN AMERICAN!!"
I just watched from afar, as I wasn't involved, and I kept my mouth shut, and let my first wife do all the talking (she was German, so she spoke the language) at the place we were at. I did not want to give any indicators that I was an American, and could be associated with that dumbass. Though, the Gen-Xer in me desperately wanted to yell out, "Oh, YES THEY CAN!"
Many/most Americans have this sense of entitlement when visiting other countries, and personally, I don't understand it. When I was there, I felt myself a Guest of the country, and acted accordingly. While I wasn't perfect, I did pay attention to how "natives" acted, and emulated that as best I could. It's like being in someone's house.... you do NOT make the rules there, you follow the rules established to the best of your ability.
In Germany, I was legally allowed to walk around in public, and even be on public transportation, with an open beer. The thing was, you had to, you know, not act like a total drunken dipshit. So I drank freely in public, and was happy about it.
Yup i ussually do what the locals do. Went to the Us last years since decades. rented a car anf the first 100 miles saw everybody passing me when i kept to the speed limit especially in a construction earia. After that i went ok if its after working hours i'm just gonna do what the locales do. Its just to dangerous to follow the rules.
And that's why I don't like Americans. They think they're literally better than everyone else.
So you didn't say: 'Who won the bloody war then?' Germans usually see the funny side of that.
@@alans9806You good?
It is NOT a prank. I have seen this happen here in Australia. There was an incident (bank robbery), everyone in the vicinity was held up by the police investigating. Simple questions were asked, answered and we went on with our lives after contact details obtained (just in case). BUT for an American Couple! They totally carried on like this... are we free to go, are we being detained, why are we not being allowed to go... I know I looked at that couple in sheer bloody disgust, and I was NOT the only one! I don't know what happened after, but I seriously felt sorry for our police!
The thing is they don't even have American law right. All this " are we being detained" stuff comes from Terry Stops, that is being stopped in the street for "fitting a description" and the like, for which a threshold of being detained rather than a consensual conversation has to have reasonable articulable suspicion. A whole different law applies to actual crime scenes, which this was and so was the example you gave. In this case the American was standing in the front yard of a house in which there was a party and an assault took place. No police force can function without the power to detain everyone, innocent, victim or perpetrator at a crime scene for the purposes of gathering evidence. Even if this person had been in the US or in your case, they had no right to wander off, there was no requirement for reasonable suspicion, and they'd have been nicked if they refused to comply.
What gets me is that it's such a small issue they're being detained over. If they're not involved in the incident, all they had to do was to cooperate and it would be been likely sorted out in 5 or 10 mins. But instead they decide to argue over and over for no reason.
That sort always want the last word to be their's, total pondlife.
To make you feel a little better that all isn't lost, I am a volunteer firefighter in rural Australia and we attended a motor vehicle accident recently involving a young Texan male on a work visa. He admitted he dozed off at the wheel of his employers vehicle and was being questioned by local and highway patrol officers about the incident. You couldn't fault the young guy when it came to manners and respect ! Cooperated fully and after all the paperwork, breath tests and ambulance medical check, they helped him get to where he was staying. Must of had a good upbringing.
Probably home-schooled, and wasn't exposed to all of that Marxist indoctrination of the U.S. "Public School System".
American had a good upbringing..'A rare specimen seen seldom in the world.'
Texans are good 'ol boys. Old school manners.
Texas is not america, it is Texas. Go ask a texan.
Maybe he was from Texas Queensland
This is definitely not a joke or a prank. This is exactly how most Americans behave.
I would say that this idiot represents the dumbest 20% of all Americans. Most Americans recognize the authority that a uniformed police officer has.
I was going to suggest that it's not most, unfortunately after some thought you more likely correct.
@@BillyBobJoeSnr sadly that's the reality and I don't like it either. I lived in the States from 1984 until 1998 and it was such an awesome time to live in America. I miss that time...
@@hilpi75 I emigrated to the UK and considered returning just before the banking crisis of 2008. The entire family is quite glad we never did...
I have experienced both education systems and was horrified to find by the end of highschool the US students were 3-4 years behind the UK children.
@@BillyBobJoeSnr its the maga mind set
UK and especially the Met Police do try and be more patient with tourists, if he had been a Brit, it's more than likely he would have been told "sit down and shut up, if you attempt to leave, you will be arrested"... and rightly so. Let them do their job and then you can go on your way.
I am a retired Bobby, you must be one or read the same instruction I was given in early 60's .. Never argue with an idiot, they're more experienced than you
Kinda wish they did react that way, coz I feel like he was being disrespectful and needed to be told off lol
He’s a guest in the UK, so he needs to comply with their wishes, failing this he then needs to be deported immediately.
With a lifetime ban NEVER to step foot our our soil ever again. He was a total rectum. look up translation for last word. polite way of saying what I really wanted to call him?
In Italy they would be already in front of a judge for "interrupting a public service", actually in custody at the police station after the first 5 minutes.
In a situation like this, when you've just arrived on the scene and information is sketchy you're initially looking for people showing signs of agitation and/or aggression. This guy instantly made himself a person of interest by behaving as he did
If it's any consolation Connor, he ended up spending 20 hours in custody, He made himself liable to arrest for numerous reasons; obstructing a police officer(s) in carrying out their duties, a public order offence, wasting police time and resources etc.
Ironic, all he had to do was chill and he would have been free to go quickly. What an utter idiot, as soon as I watched this video I knew they would get him for obstruction.
@@jorgeclarkson8286He's hadn't learned his lesson, since he posted this video later.
Will his friend and family please intervene?
They should've held him for another 20 hours just to teach him a lesson. As an American, this is completely cringe. I won't apologize for this persons behavior - but I will say that there are still some of us who respect the laws and sovereignty of the countries to which we travel.
@@berniethekiwidragon4382lol was the singular 'friend' deliberate?
@@rayaqueen9657 Typo.
Where I live and work means I deal with tourists from all over the world pretty much 24/7 and I swear to god I had 3 very similar conversations just today and you bet they were all American 😂 Canadians are hilarious because they are so quick to assure people that they aren't American and it's even funnier when everyone else visibly relaxes and will even say out loud "thank god" 😂 Americans don't own stupidity but they sure do it better than anyone else
As a Canadian, I thank you. When travelling I wear my Canadian flag lapel pin. 😀
i love canadians, they know how to spell aluminium and use Celsius
"Americans don't own stupidity but they sure do it better than anyone else" .................... superb!
@@yarrowbumblefoot8877 Unfortunately, so do a lot of Americans, as well wearing as the Canadian Flag on their backpack, so they don't get treated like 'Murrricns'. They're the ones who make it difficult for REAL Canadians. I ran into one when I was working in Namibia....who, when I asked..."oh, what part of Canada are you from", as she had a thick American accent....swiftly changed the subject.
@@D0S81 and can spell neighbour, and centre, and litre, and metre.......harbour, HONOUR, etc.
When I was young almost the entire world thought America was great. Over the last 20 years that perception has been completely reversed, even among the US’ closest allies. It’s not that we think all Americans are arrogant morons, but we’ve realised that an awful lot are.
I would arrest him just for being an American in Britain!
So, the guy is rude, flat out states he's an entitled ignorant foreigner, threatens the police officers.... It's like he insists on making himself look as guilty as possible...
I think this fool deserves 6 months in a U.K. penitentiary, followed by deportation, and a permanent ban from re-entering the U.K.
He’s just a typical American
And he wastes the time of 4 officers during an active investigation, making the wait even longer than it ever needed to be.
Cops shoild have just said ...this is England and not America
I would have arrested him for futher investigation, bc he is obstructing police work by asking the same questions on which he already got an answer. That's suspicious behavior for me, at least abnormal.
For those who want a quick summary: - "Are we being detained?" ... "Yes".... "Why are we being detained?".. "Because you're a suspect in a crime!"... "So why are we being detained, You haven't told us?" ... "Yes you are, and we have told you!".... "So why are we being detained?" ... "We've just told you!" .... "I'm am American, so I'm smarter than you. Why are we being detained?". Ad infinitum.
Let's hope this guy doesn't procreate, for the sake of America and the world.
'Let's hope this guy doesn't procreate, for the sake of America and the world.' 🤣🤣🤣 You just made my day @SirHilaryManfat 🤣🤣🤣
"I'm American so I know" the arrogance, unbelievable. The British police are so polite and if an American tried that here, they would be sorted very quickly. Our cops are armed and have less patience 🇦🇺
"I'm American so I know": an oxymoron, if I´ve ever heard one
Every time I've ever been to Europe, I had a schedule to keep in order to be able to board various flights or trains to the next European country. So, arguing with law enforcement would have jeopardized my ability to leave the U.K., and to be able to visit the other countries that I had on my itinerary. I guess if someone is only planning to only visit the U.K., then being argumentative with law enforcement seems appropriate to them, but I go out of my way to stay out of trouble when I'm on foreign soil.
As a Canadian, same would happen here.
@Scorch1028 so basically you wouldn't argue because it would mess up your schedule. How about you don't argue out of courtesy and respect for the country that you're in. Let me guess - American?
UK police are trained to de-escalate if at all possible (until of course, that's no longer tenable - working out exactly where that line lies is why it's a tough job).
He is asking to use the bathroom of which is the crime scene. Even a casual watcher of Law and Order knows this is not an option but this guy is an AMURICUNT and knows better.
Not wrong there, love the name you give them. lol
"why am i being detained?" BECAUSE THE POLICE OFFICER SAID SO, what the hell is wrong with these people.
Speaking as a Brit please never apologise for other peoples Idiocracy.
I mean if a Brit was in America acting like that we would just say WHAT A TWAT
Speaking as a USA citizen, Idiocracy abounds in my country, and these “dudes” are perfect examples.
idiocracy is an interesting word.
@@abnormallyfunny I think he means idiocy. Idiocracy was a film iirc.
@@abnormallyfunny have you seen the movie?
I was just waiting for “you can’t do this to me - I’m American!” I tell you what though, if I was ever in the US and got detained for questioning by the police there is NO WAY I would argue with them or be this rude or annoying.
There's a dangerous myth that "nothing terrible will happen to you in a foreign country, if you have a U.S. passport". All kinds of horrible things can happen to Americans in foreign countries.
Damn right, you'd get a cap in yo' ass!
Those police officers have far more patience than I do.
@@Fluid-Druid True.
The police handled that situation very professionally. I would lose my 💩.
As a retired Met. Police Officer (same as on video) the officers patience are more than mine were. This gent attempted to leave he would be lifted for further investigations.
Lucky... I'm still serving.... 7 years down and many more to go!
The fact he keeps insisting he wants to go whilst the police are investigating just makes him seem more guilty
"we don't claim him"
Sorry Connor mate he is yours 😂😂
I saw this on the American guys own channel. The comments section was hysterical. He thought he was being really clever but the comments showed he was an idiot.
Is it still on his channel? I wanna see the comments 😀
I agree we don't claim him .He's rude and ignorant !
@@skurkela Looked it up. "Rome Thomas" shared this 6 years ago titled "American vs. British. Police Gets Owned." 🤣 In the description he claims they look stupid and can't answer his questions, and after locking them up for 20h. they let him go with an apology.
Highly doubt that, and it doesn't look like he learnt anything from this either.
he can't be that educated if the police kept having to tell him the same thing over and over again, the police have the right to detain you without arresting you to find out what's gone on
I think this American tourist damaged his brain with excessive recreational drug use.
The British police seems to have infinite patience! I think they should have had a little less of it.
He was unwilling to listen to the women but had a conversation with the male officer- what a tool.
I think his initial approach was very clever. If I were a UK cop and he would have said "I'm American I know.", that would have sent me into a laughing fit not being able to recover for at least 15 minutes. Therefore he would have been able to escape.
I was dying on one of the police just going "Awww, bless... :) "
I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia and my neighbours were from the United States. They complained about almost everything. What made their attitude even more insufferable was how they invariably prefaced their complaints with 'In America, we do XYZ', as if everywhere ought to emulate America.
To be fair, every arab country is a terrorist state
As a Brit I can certainly do very well without God and guns and misogynistic politicians legislating on my uterus.
arrogance and ignorance is no excuse
But a requirement of Americans abroad. Otherwise they would have nothing to moan about.@@nicolaablett7790
Do you think Saudi Arabia would be a better place if it emulated America or any European country. I think it would. You will also find Arabs including Saudi Arabians do what they like when they are in the UK even if it's against the UK law or forbidden in their religion. The British are to scared to stop them in case it causes racial offence or in some cases loss of investment.
I bet all his friends said "Yeah, you really taught them a lesson" - When the rest of the world is thinking "What a bell end"
I got a feeling if that guy was like that in america he would be already in handcuffs or shot
I am thankfull that mcjibbin is understanding whats happening instead of being biased.So W to him
"I'm an American so I know" 😂 sorry Connor this must be painful for you. Happy new year mate!
Infuriating to watch ! We don't claim him !
When you enter another country, and present your passport it is implicit that you are agreeing to abide by that countries laws. Once they have finished questioning this guy as they intended, they should take him straight to the airport and put him on a flight. No stops to collect his luggage, just straight out. He is an alien and has shown a refusal to respect the countries laws and officers of the law.
I'd let him get his bags... but he'd have to be escorted to his digs and then the airport, bit of a waste of police time and resources, but never mind
My latest experience with two Americans, also one black and one white, was at Macdonalds in Guangzhou, China. China has one of the lowest levels of English in the world and it bodes us well to remember it and respect it. Black guys says to white guy, "Time for her English lesson!", referring to the cashier, and proceeds to try and place his order in English. It soon becomes apparent that she cannot understand and he goes off about being American, English being "the official world language" and demanding service in English. They were mock angry and giggling at the same time, while the poor woman was in tears. I "gently" suggested that they eat elsewhere.
Hmmmm.... and you did not get a lecture about them "exercising their constitutional rights"?
@@Surfingsilver lol, no. My "gentle" admonition included two slaps, which frightened them off.
@@Surfingsilver Lol ther Chinese Police ,,, basically their army would have bitch slapped them into the back of a van and away they went . China doesnt fk about or give a sh!t that your from anywhere other than China ,, they don't even treat their own people well.
"i'm an American Citizen" means about as much to them as telling them you make clogs for a living.
It needs to be added to the US Education system that being an arse over sea's will get you at best thrown in jail or at worst beated, robbed and treated like shit depending on the country & then thrown in jail.
So apparently they took him off to gaol. Did he finally get to go to the loo there?
The bathroom is a crime scene! You want him to walk in to a crime scene to take a piss!
Now I understand why the American police don't waste their time with people like him... very disrespectful, annoying and ignorant then having the gall to call himself educated 😂😂😂
We call them sovereign citizens and they think that laws don't apply to them
UA-cam has plenty of examples of Americans being way way more rude and entitled to their own cops, and the cops being unbelievably patient. The idiots turn a polite enquiry into, not only arrest, but resisting arrest... Screaming and kicking as they get tazered, then cuffed... then struggling, and kicking as they get put in the back of the patrol car. Hours of entertainment on here. Some of the darker moments though, involve very very unwise moves, that end as badly as bad can be
He should have realised that everything, including the law, was different here. He wasn't being screamed at. He wasn't having a gun pointed at him. He wasn't immediately cuffed for the "police's protection".
"Arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package. How very efficient of you." - Londo Molari, Babylon 5.
I laughed at the IMMEDIATE apology. One sentence. That's all it took. Four words. No need for more, we knew EXACTLY what was going on and oh boy. I thought I was ready for that karen-level conversation. I was, in fact, not.
Im british, i have had serious issues with my police, so i tend to side with the suspect, this case is an exception however. And don't sweat it, you don't bare any responsibility.
Those police officers had the patience of saints.
In the UK you can be arrested on “suspicion” of committing or even suspicion of being about to commit a crime. They don’t have to have proof at that time, simply suspicion.
The police can lock you up, take your fingerprints etc, conduct further investigations then release you later without charging you. You’re probably better off avoiding being arrested in the first place.
That's how it should be.
Unfortunately I don't think this is a joke. I remember being told in Central London by an American that I did not know my own city. He'd asked for directions - looking for a particular shop that he insisted was on Haymarket, but I knew it wasn't. After he insisted again that he was right and I was wrong, I told him to go look for the shop and "good luck with that". I've found Americans to be either really awful or really nice. There seems to be no in-between.
It's a shame that so many tourists are high, drunk, or stupid.
Lol, one of them tried to tell me he knew more about Scotland economy than me, when foolishly comparing the US defence budget with Scotland's (we don't have a defence budget)
When i went to an American school they taught us how to read and write with cassette and headphones. I think that explains a lot
Sometimes I think we're kind of collateral damage in their own internal "culture wars" because i've run into people from the US online that were obviously just repeating something they'd seen on Fox News or similar (bizarre claims like the UK only records murders where the police have a suspect, which is why our homicide rate is so much lower than the US ??).
(sometimes it's also just arrogance though, like the American telling me he knew more about how a Scottish accent sounds because his grandad was from Scotland. Kept on insisting, even after I told him _i'm_ from Scotland. Mostly lovely people in my experience but the old adage "They do everything bigger in America" clearly _also_ applies to twattishness :)
I remember a Ukrainian woman in an interview saying Americans like being exceptional. Whether its exceptionally good or exceptionally bad, doesnt matter, as long as its exceptional. 😂
mind you, she didnt say that to sh#t on the Americans, she just noted as she saw it
Here's the paradox. I often see film shots of American citizens stopped by police in their own country. And they are extra polite to the cops and call them "Sir" ! That tells me they are intimidated by their own police. In the UK we usually respect the police but would *NEVER* call them "Sir". They have equal status to the public.
In the UK you should call the police "constable" unless you have done something wrong, in which case it's "officer".
You’re not watching enough American videos. Look up sovereign citizens and first amendment auditors for videos of obnoxious interactions with law enforcement
"I'm an American, so I know."
We Americans rarely know the fine details of American law when we are in our own country.
He's just lucky he wasn't acting like this in Russia or China.
Or N Korea, They would make mincemeat of him there. lol
I once saw an american get angry because an italian restaurant in Italy wouldn't accept US DOLLARS. He couldn't understand that the US dollar isn't used everywhere in the world.
There is an Irish one where the guy is quoting the US Constitution at the Garda . The cops were the most patient ever but they eventually impounded his car. His mums car actually.
His mum's car without insurance, the reason why the car was impounded. He claimed insurance was optional for him.
There is another one where he had removed the car number plates because he didn't need to display them (also no insurance from memory) because he was a sovereign 'Murican citizen. He claimed US law was also Irish Law, the gardai were incredibly patient with him as well. Irish Demon I think posted that one.
I think there's something about the sovcit crap that attracts mentally unwell people. Nobody with a functioning brain would attempt that even in America, let alone a completely unrelated country that hasn't even heard of that nonsense before.
I've seen that one. After they tow his car they offer him, his partner and his kid a lift home but he turns them down because he doesn't want to "contract" with them. So then end up standing around in the cold outside a convenience store. What a Muppet.
Americans thinking they know the UK law or that their citizenship has any affect on the laws they follow whilst in the UK is bloody infuriating. This massively affected me as I am an airsoft player and had a large collection of RIF firearms. (Bb guns that arent two tone). Anyway, i was in my living room sorting out my kit for the upcoming gameday and my housemate was interested in the sport. He asked if he could have a look at my glock and i said sure. Im always happy to introduce people to my hobby. I went to the toilet and left my housemate looking at the guns and what not. When i returned to the living room I saw him with my glock outside the house on the street. I sprinted out the house, took it off him and asked if he was just stupid or suicidal as holding that out and about was an effective way of getting armed police pointing their guns at him. 5 minutes later I get a knock on the door from the firearms officers locked and loaded and prepared to deal with a real gun. (Fucking scary). After being cuffed and searched I explained what happened. The result was my £7k collection of RIFs confiscated for misuse and a £500 fine. My housemate recieved a court date which resulted in a huge fine (i dont know how much but it was a lot and resulted in him not being able to afford to study in the UK). My housemate started gobbing off at the officers and explaining how pathetic UK gun law is, how carrying a RIF wouldnt cause public fear and distress as its a toy. (This is in a country where there maybe like 5 guns per 100 people and even then pistols, with a barrel less than 12 inches, are banned.) When he argued that it wouldnt cause distress the firearms officer explained that they had 4 phonecalls from the public expressing concern about a man carrying a firearm, it caused distress. He then said that the UK already removed his rights by not allowing him to bring his personal firearm from america and now they're not allowing him to play with a toy. (He was getting quite aggressive at this point). His behavior also added resisting arrest and antisocial behavior as he was swearing at the cops. And then to add insult to injury once we were released, yes we both got taken down to the station, i said to him that he owes me £7k which we can set up some kind of payment plan for as i knew he was going to have an expensive time coming up given what had just happened and that £7k is a lot of money that i dont expect somebody to be able to just hand over. His response was its not his fault the UK has pathetic gun laws and that he wouldnt pay me back. He left, i never got a penny from him. Good riddance tbh, never before have I felt as disrespected both personally with the refusal to pay me back but also disrespected in terms of my countries culture and laws. Yes, not being able to open the bag that has the RIF in public can be inconvenient but that foesnt mean I dont support the law in this way.
Sue him for the loss. In the US.
What an absolute nightmare. I'm sorry to hear about your ordeal.
Sorry man that you lost your collection.
Thank you guys for your kind words. So, due to the incident last year I had my UKARA membership suspended. However, after having a meeting with my local police force the suspension will be over at the end of this coming April. I will be able to rebuild my collection thank God. However, it is on the condition that if the police are called out again for anything to do with my RIFs I will be permanently banned from owning RIFs in the UK.
@@piecewisefunctioneer Happy to hear that. But hard lesson learnt, don't let random people touch it. That guy was pathetic, had no respect for others.
The biggest laugh is that eventually they were both arrested, spent the night in a cell and released the next morning without charge. I understand the police apologised but I suspect it was a *very* polite British apology. 😏
Anyway, happy New Year, Connor.
But a shilling says he didn’t understand the nuance or the sarcasm contained in the apology, and will have taken it at face value and therefore learnt nothing. Poor soul. I hope he throws his passport away when he gets home and confines his ignorance to his home nation.
British sarcasm is the best 😂
Cheers from Norway @@carriageofnoreturn.1881
Imagine not realising that once backup is called they cant straight up arrest you for antisocial behaviour and potential risk of harm
This whole thing is hilarious. Original video with comments and this reaction. Well done.
Whose betting the police are thinking ‘ damn yank’. 🥴
You don't need to apologise for him, you are clearly more intelligent :-)
I've never been annoyed at anyone more than this guy. And I've seen the video before. He's annoyed me twice! Oh and happy new year Connor!
He,s lucky the cop didn’t just say your acting suspicious are you carrying anything you shouldn’t be? Search time then residence would have him down the station and strip searched with the rubber glove 🤣
The arrogance of that American guy is breathtaking, who the hell does he think he is!
An American😂
Simple answer, an American. I know I shouldn't tar all Americans with the same brush but I used to work in Oxford and had to deal with Americans on a daily basis and unfortunately most have come across as rude, obnoxious, arrogant and entitled.
American!
He's got to be schooled.
If he had just co-operated and stopped wasting time by saying the same thing over and over, he could have answered any questions and probably been allowed to leave. Couldn't believe the arrogance of someone talking down to the police (who are just doing their job) in that tone, when you are a visitor in another country.
...and more importantly his mate might have been able to go for a pee.
@@kalebdaark100 From memory he wasn't his mate, they didn't even know each other according to comments on another video. He just decided to butt in without even knowing if the other bloke was guilty of the assault or not.
would have been a ten minute stop, tops if he had just shut up and answered the questions.
Somehow, I can't see New York cops acting with such self-restraint and patience!
The key thing there is that they're being patient, rather than polite. They're not being nice, they're waiting.
@@tonyhart3615
"they're being patient"
As I believe I said!
In America the police would have shot and asked questions later.
They were both arrested on suspicion of assaulting a female. I don’t know what the outcome was
Not the only video of an American trying to "own" the police in the UK unfortunately. You can just see it on the polices faces thinking "is this person for real?"
The original appears to be "American Vs British. Police Gets Owned". The poster says he was jailed for 20 hours. I'd love to see him try the same stunt in China or Russia.
You can always tell an American, but you can't tell them anything.
There are loads of "sovereign citizen" videos on UA-cam, but the ones with Irish Gardaí (Irish police) are a thing of BEAUTY!
Just to be clear, I have personally witnessed plenty of similar entitlement from British tourists abroad. Far more so than Americans.
Was'nt me, never, ever been outside the UK in 65 years. too many idiots, criminals, and general Muppets to contend with.
Its always an American who think they know the law in other countries 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Or thinks the US constitution applies in other countries somehow
I'm sure British people do it too. All the American people who I've met and worked with have been lovely, respectful people. TBH.
i mean american citizen just act like the american gouverment xD calling other nations not going by international law and threatenin with international court, while themself not accepting either of it xD ur citizen act like ur gourverment shows them to act @@alexbuckenham1663
@@zedcarr6128 No…British people don’t assume to know the laws in other countries lol. Are you kidding? We understand that laws are different everywhere.
Not true. How often do British football fans fall foul of the law in other countries? Not only that, they make me embarrassed to be British with their behaviour. I'm Ex-Armed forces and I ALWAYS showed respect in all the dozens of countries I visited because I was a guest in their country. @@pommiebears
He was lucky to act out like this in the UK, In plenty of other Liberal European Democracies it would more likely go bad for him, try this attitude in France for example.
he ended in jail so not went well for him there either i would say xD
@@CoL_Drakeending in jail IS Something different than beaten Up ending in jail...
@@CoL_Drake id rather go jail than get a smashed face and also be in jail.
For all the tolerant liberalism in NL, their cops are more aggressive than ours. Their boundaries are wide but don't step over them.
2:08 I'm american, so i know... this lad thinks America is the world 😂
Morrissey said it best... "America is Not the World". And this is coming from an American lol
To all American sovereign citizens. Please, come to South America. The police here is friendly and will treat you really well.
Please visit eastern europe as well, and Chinese cops will you too
My English mother married my father who is American. My dad died when I was a toddler. The upshot of this is that my mum needed her family round her after my dad’s death so she brought me up in England.I went over to visit my relatives when I was 14 years old. I’m not glad my dad died but that left me to be raised in England and really happy about that as I remember that most of the people I met in the USA are very arrogant.
The fact he thinks the same laws in America apply in the UK says it all 😅
" I'm American so I know"... 😂🤣
This must be very embarrassing for any reasonably intelligent American.
I had an American lady tell me that the language I had been speaking all my life, about 55 years, IN England, wasn't actually English!
My family has lived in England for many hundreds of years, so I was pretty sure it was!!!
When I replied that we English invented the English language (the clue was in the name!), she said that only Americans spoke true English. What we English were speaking was only 'British' and hardly anybody spoke that now!
It was at this point that I succumbed to a fit of the giggles!!! She was so incredibly fierce about it. She believed this rubbish so passionately! There was no point in trying to reason with her! 🙄🇬🇧😱🇬🇧😂🇬🇧😕🏴🙈🏴☹️🏴
I think the guy arguing would argue with his own reflection, just for the sake of it 😭😭
Don't feel too bad Connor...you should see how some of us Brits behave abroad 🫣
To be fair though most wouldn't argue the law with foreign cop because it will never end well, if that stupid yank tried that in Spain he'd find himself in a police cell pretty quick.
True. Everyone in Europe should speak fluent English and there must be egg and chips available everywhere 😂