Man fined for loudspeaker call at French station - BBC News
The outraged passenger hires a lawyer to dispute the fine over a public phone call in Nantes.
I have zero issue with this TBH. Double the fine each week he don't pay.
Could we make these fines proportional to the income?
Can we have the same treatment for the Assholes who watch TikTok or Reels without headphones but with sound on the Train?
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The only thing worse than idiots watching one vapid TikTok clip after the other (preferably in the silent compartment, of course), was when I was on a train to Berlin from Amsterdam, and the people on the other side of the aisle were trying to keep their kid calm by playing him Baby Shark over and over and fucking over again...
According to the article, they also get fined.
Imagine you are at a station, making a call on speakerphone in public (because you're an asshole). Then you get approached by a person asking you to turn of the speaker (not even to end the call, mind you).
At that point, I'd imagine the normal thing is to just comply with that request (even for dicks on speakerphone).
Now imagine this person being not some random passenger, but someone working for the train company, in uniform and everything. And they're telling you that they will fine you if you don't comply.
At this point, how fucking deep up your own ass do you have to be to ignore them?
I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.
I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.
The reply was "oui, but i am French!"
We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.
French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.
My bro went on erasmus to France. Well, first the girl from France came to us. We hosted her, they went to a club for drinks n'stuff, shown her around the city etc. One funny thing is she thought we were about to feed her horse meat for some reason. Then my bro went, they planned a trip to disneyland. Apparently something went wrong with the tickets and my bro couldn't get in. So they left him in the parkinglot and had fun by themselves lol. He got back to the village (50km away) by going with a second family that was in the program. Like, completely insane shit.
What the fuck france is super strict on smoking areas from what ive seen
From the article:
David said he was told that he would be fined €150 if he did not turn off the loudspeaker - a fine which he claims was later increased to €200 because he did not pay it on the spot. He has since hired a lawyer to dispute the fine.
for 200 you get some pretty decent headphones
He got a warning and ignored it... can we double the fine?
"David said he was told that he would be fined" + David got fined = David kept doing it even after getting warned.
The BBC, doing their public service of letting us all know that David is a twat!
(More serioulsy, most British media - definitelly the BBC - pretty frequently post "other countries are bad" and "shocking treatment of Briton abroad" kind of articles: Brexit was very much anchored on English Exceptionalism and the local media has long feed such delusions of exceptionalism with this kind of article and a more general spin on international news that agrandizes British importance and portrays others countries as lesser)
Til USA exceptionism is only a continuation of their motherland's
...so he got on the PA system and broadcast his phone call to the station? Or does the author mean speaker phone instead of loud speaker?
Based honestly
Good. David’s an utter arsehole. Instead of a warning and a fine, take the phone off them and throw it in front of the next train.
Seriously, how stressed are you Europeans? Going nuts about someone who’s slightly annoying.
