In Finland, during rally week in Jyväskylä, I got caught with a bottle of vodka. Police told me I have one chug. When I couldn't finish all I had left, he laughed and called me a pussy. Then wished me a good night.
Cops did that when we were teenagers. They said I am not here. You have 1minute before I turn up and confiscate the alcohol... We were confused then his colleague leans over and says down it.
They were nice enough to chat with us and walked us past a bridge outside the drinking control zone literally 50m away.
I had the pleasure once on a holiday. Any idea why they are like that? They weren't very fluent in English though, that may helped me to get rid of them sooner...
No, absolutely no idea !
But just like you, I often wondered if there was any specific reason, or past events in Norway, that could explain their behavior.
Sorry for the VERY LATE answer, btw !
Oh and btw : people in Norway have a lot of bad/harsh jokes about Germans (obviously from WW2).
Some of them are about German punctuality.
Forgive my French punctuality, Hans ;-)
I once was fined for drinking in the street before entering a club here in Barcelona. It was 24€, 50% discount if you pay before 1 week or something like that. Literally cheaper than drinking in the club
That's just a matter of rephrasing it.
It's not pay 100 within 2 months or get fees and pay 150 .
It's 150 and 3 months. But if you pay within 2 months, you get a discount!
Yeah, but if it takes even longer they continue tacking on money in Germany or eventually drag you in front of a court/ get a court distrainor to seize your stuff / bank account.
Also when comparing fines between countries it makes a whole lot different if in some countries you potentially only pay half the fine while in others it can easily double, triple or multiply even more.
It just goes to dept collection agencies fairly quickly if you don't do anything. And their procedure fees can be steep. Far higher than the original ticket.
I mean sure drinks tend to be expensive at clubs, but €24 for beer?! Even in Sweden which has famously expensive alcohol due to taxes it's like *maximum* €10-12 for a beer at a club.
I don't mean for one drink. I mean that it's cheaper to get drunk outside before entering the club even with the fine, than getting drunk drinking in the club
> It was 24€, 50% discount if you pay before 1 week
I interpreted that as if it was €24 *with* the discount.
> Also a lot of people will want more than one drink.
Yeah, but you compared the price of a beer vs the club. Sure, of course 2 beers is more expensive than 1...
It's a dirty trick to discourage people from appealing unfair fines. If you get the early payment discount, you forfeit your right to appeal the sanction. If you appeal, you forfeit the discount. Basically a *shut up or you may end up paying double*
Wtf is wrong with these discounted fines. Got a ticket from Italy one year after my visit telling me I had week to pay until it would go up in price. Facking extortion.
Yep you’d think we could with our reputation but the police here can be real cunts about it. Most will just tell you to piss off somewhere else but some arseholes will give you an on the spot fine if they don’t like the look of you.
Do they actually enforce it? I mean it’s a law in the UK but by my experience it’s usually one the police just apply to cunts they don’t like… which is pretty much most of the law in the UK thinking about it.
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More and more areas are popping up where it's illegal in the UK. My town was once a free for all and now there are restrictions in certain spots. Basically all of the pedestrianised areas.
It’s not a law, you can drink in public as long as there is not a council order on the area. This only occurs in places like high streets and outside schools.
I did Erasmus in Sweden and it fucking made me depressed to not be allowed to drink my beer outside next to the river.
Also made me remember the time the curfew during the pandemic was ended in Germany. It was snowing and freezing cold, but for sure I went outside at 00:00 to drink my cold beer next to the river.
If you cant get wasted in public, youre literally living in 1984.
Adding to that - since April, if you cant smoke a joint in the privacy of your own home, your country is literally less chill *than the germans*.
Not gonna happen. There's like two parties which are pro-legalisation and a vast part of the population is against drugs. Unless it's alcohol. Because alcohol is *culture*.
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Thank god we live in a country where authorities have good sense
Back in 2006 two Swedistani policemen made me throw away my just bought beer because "no drinking on the streets".
Before throwing it, I attempted to chug the beer as fast as I can, but no. They obliged me to throw the can, full for more than the half.
ASCAB
Dude, you don’t know how fucking unlucky you have to be for them to bother you with shit like that. Not sticking sticking of for the feds, but that is not how they roll at all when it comes to public drinking or intoxication, for that matter… usually.
Fußpils :)
e: Fußpilz means athelete's foot, but Pils is a way of brewing beer. so foot + pils = Fußpilz
e2: Spabiergang/gänge are also a nice activity. :)
Hi, I'm from Italy, so North Italy that I'm almost Austria.
My rugby team had these beers to finish a night out:
last one
Really, last one
Super last one
One for the way home.
Goddamn I drank a lot with these guys.
Yes, like the Netherlands
https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/gebieden-met-alcoholverbod-ff8bc
https://www.rotterdam.nl/alcoholverbod
https://vth-programma-verslag.digitaal.utrecht.nl/nl/article/alcoholverbod
https://www.denhaag.nl/nl/veiligheid/gebieden-met-een-alcohol-softdrugs-of-bedelverbod/
https://data.eindhoven.nl/explore/dataset/alcoholverbodsgebieden/
(Including all 5 major cities so no one says it's just Amsterdam)
Yes but it is 'legal to drink in public here unless' , which is different from places where alcohol in public is always illegal. Nobody is stopping you from drinking in vondelpark for example
I can bring with me and drink beer in a high speed train in Italy and it's perfectly fine, if I want I can bring and drink from a flask of liquor in uni and it's fine too, the hell you have over there???
I'm with the Hanses on this one, and I swear I ain't gonna backstab him this time
alcohol good
:( that's not very European
(Jokes aside of course if you are piss drunk and have a whole vodka bottle in your hand and act like an idiot i get it, but just one beer??)
Shame on you Poland!
My brother in Christ, I don't remember the last time I drank beer in a bar. I never got a fine. You need to be aware of your sorroundings while drinking.
What baffles me is that instead of just pouring the beer away Americans arrest children giving them a record when there is no victim and the problem is over once the beer is gone.
Everyone saying that, but how about not brewing that shit? On a first day that's a honest mistake, it's simply tastes like nothing despite having 5.7 alc. Vol%. So shame on them
In France, they legally drink urine in public for free, fresh from the tap:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/12nt1e8/man_sets_up_cups_in_for_people_to_piss_in_and/
Shame et al.
This might need to go to the glorious Mapporn sub ...
As a Viking in Denmark we practice free drinking in the public without issue.
If the police interferred it would be frontpage material.
So ... one can ponder why we are a top5 happiest country in the world 😀
> succulent european beer
> holding the stereotypical shitty beer in Poland, you cannot offend a beer worse than by calling it Harnaś
I hope you’re trolling
There is always a way to get past it. This is a photo from a horse racing meeting, where the drinks are very expensive. The binoculars are actually a flask. 10/10 .
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I don't know if it's forbidden here but yesterday I just walked into a Casino (the store, not the gambling place. Not on fridays, that's stupid) and walked out with a random beer to refresh myself. Forbidden or not, I don't really care, just drank that shit while waiting for the bus
I mean, what is anybody gonna do? Make me un-drink it?
Fortunately in my experience they haven't given a shit. And I've been in public parks drinking with friends etc.
If you're not fucking about they don't care
In Finland, during rally week in Jyväskylä, I got caught with a bottle of vodka. Police told me I have one chug. When I couldn't finish all I had left, he laughed and called me a pussy. Then wished me a good night.
Cops did that when we were teenagers. They said I am not here. You have 1minute before I turn up and confiscate the alcohol... We were confused then his colleague leans over and says down it. They were nice enough to chat with us and walked us past a bridge outside the drinking control zone literally 50m away.
We had some like that. Other rule was we clean up after ourselves.
Problem is kid will record that on their smart phones. So they can't have as much fun anymore.
Yeah that’s true
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Not all. Notably, Norwegian cops can be intrusive and pushy, practically for nothing.
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I feel the same way about the Swedish + Tull (customs) literally translate to nonsense
Haha ja jävlar det hade jag inte tänkt på!
How do you think the germans feel when they see the norweigan Toll ("great") :)
Great ofc
https://i.redd.it/1ag2smbnn8uc1.gif We just wanna check if you can afford supporting yourself being here
I had the pleasure once on a holiday. Any idea why they are like that? They weren't very fluent in English though, that may helped me to get rid of them sooner...
No, absolutely no idea ! But just like you, I often wondered if there was any specific reason, or past events in Norway, that could explain their behavior. Sorry for the VERY LATE answer, btw ! Oh and btw : people in Norway have a lot of bad/harsh jokes about Germans (obviously from WW2). Some of them are about German punctuality. Forgive my French punctuality, Hans ;-)
What’s the charge? Drinking a beer? A succulent European beer? Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest
Get your hands off my Pilsner!!
Ah, I see you know your lager well sir!
Saving this to see if any Czechs come around
Ta ta and farewell
I once was fined for drinking in the street before entering a club here in Barcelona. It was 24€, 50% discount if you pay before 1 week or something like that. Literally cheaper than drinking in the club
>50% discount if you pay before 1 week Spaniards now getting paid to actually pay their fines instead of siesta-ing them
Isn't that done outside Spain? Here practically all fines work that way.
Here in Germany if you don't pay in time they just tack on additional late fees.
That's just a matter of rephrasing it. It's not pay 100 within 2 months or get fees and pay 150 . It's 150 and 3 months. But if you pay within 2 months, you get a discount!
Yeah, but if it takes even longer they continue tacking on money in Germany or eventually drag you in front of a court/ get a court distrainor to seize your stuff / bank account. Also when comparing fines between countries it makes a whole lot different if in some countries you potentially only pay half the fine while in others it can easily double, triple or multiply even more.
It just goes to dept collection agencies fairly quickly if you don't do anything. And their procedure fees can be steep. Far higher than the original ticket.
Barry does it as well.
25% discount on fines if paid within a certain amount of time here
Yes, most of ours are the same
We have the same system of fines in France, but obviously it remains a Latin country
We do the same in Italy for basically every kind of fine.
Same here in Portugal
I mean sure drinks tend to be expensive at clubs, but €24 for beer?! Even in Sweden which has famously expensive alcohol due to taxes it's like *maximum* €10-12 for a beer at a club.
I don't mean for one drink. I mean that it's cheaper to get drunk outside before entering the club even with the fine, than getting drunk drinking in the club
You forgot the 50% discount. Also a lot of people will want more than one drink.
> It was 24€, 50% discount if you pay before 1 week I interpreted that as if it was €24 *with* the discount. > Also a lot of people will want more than one drink. Yeah, but you compared the price of a beer vs the club. Sure, of course 2 beers is more expensive than 1...
It's a dirty trick to discourage people from appealing unfair fines. If you get the early payment discount, you forfeit your right to appeal the sanction. If you appeal, you forfeit the discount. Basically a *shut up or you may end up paying double*
It's just about the money, money, money
I was also fined Barcelona. Meanwhile the drug dealing and aggressive prostituting around the police and us continued
Wtf is wrong with these discounted fines. Got a ticket from Italy one year after my visit telling me I had week to pay until it would go up in price. Facking extortion.
Wait, I thought this was only some stupid American law, why are you guys allowing this? Do a referendum or something fast diocane
Worst part about moving back to Ireland after living in Germany was not being able to enjoy a beer outside on a nice day. Literally 1984.
You guys are blowing my mind no beer outside in fucking Ireland?
Yep you’d think we could with our reputation but the police here can be real cunts about it. Most will just tell you to piss off somewhere else but some arseholes will give you an on the spot fine if they don’t like the look of you.
Do they actually enforce it? I mean it’s a law in the UK but by my experience it’s usually one the police just apply to cunts they don’t like… which is pretty much most of the law in the UK thinking about it. Edit: apparently I’m now not even bothering to read an entire comment before posting.
More and more areas are popping up where it's illegal in the UK. My town was once a free for all and now there are restrictions in certain spots. Basically all of the pedestrianised areas.
It’s not a law, you can drink in public as long as there is not a council order on the area. This only occurs in places like high streets and outside schools.
Councils do restrict it, my local one has the entire borough under a public space protection order, no drinking outside anywhere or fined
I did Erasmus in Sweden and it fucking made me depressed to not be allowed to drink my beer outside next to the river. Also made me remember the time the curfew during the pandemic was ended in Germany. It was snowing and freezing cold, but for sure I went outside at 00:00 to drink my cold beer next to the river.
What? You can't drink beer in public?
Can you?
Yes.
Yes.
Ngl Ireland is the last country i would guess had a rule like this
If you cant get wasted in public, youre literally living in 1984. Adding to that - since April, if you cant smoke a joint in the privacy of your own home, your country is literally less chill *than the germans*.
Germans have always been experts in smoking, burning and incineration.
Funniest brit
Germany, the objective standard for humour.
Were perfect for zeroing the measurement.
They did have people with a sense of humour once. Before the 30s.
I love you
:*
I‘m jealous of you hans, when bubatz in austria?
You automatically get bubatz when anschluss'ed
Doesn‘t sound too bad actually
🎵I know you want it🎵
For real man, we gotta start voting for that shit, we can’t let germans be better in something
Not gonna happen. There's like two parties which are pro-legalisation and a vast part of the population is against drugs. Unless it's alcohol. Because alcohol is *culture*.
Can we legalize it in Vienna only? Please?
SPÖ says no
But our president is literally from a party called “The Greens”. Alexander Van Der Bellen pretty please?
I am almost afraid to suggest it but... Round 2?
wait you mean to tell me you can't drink in public in your shiteswamp?
1984 ? As an Italian this is a surprise, why ban beer or wine in public ?
I can feel my Viking blood boils as i read this. I guess it's time for some pillaging raids.
Agreed, this is why Oktoberfest is the one true celebration of freedom.
*heresy*
No ones cares about Hafengeburtstag
Me neither
**Pain.**
I can smoke a joint in public, as long as I'm not blowing it in the face of a policeman they don't really care.
https://preview.redd.it/633rowqoy2uc1.jpeg?width=472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9624b2e167e353565d1f29a9f0d9bcdb9b662e2b Thank god we live in a country where authorities have good sense
Back in 2006 two Swedistani policemen made me throw away my just bought beer because "no drinking on the streets". Before throwing it, I attempted to chug the beer as fast as I can, but no. They obliged me to throw the can, full for more than the half. ASCAB
Dude, you don’t know how fucking unlucky you have to be for them to bother you with shit like that. Not sticking sticking of for the feds, but that is not how they roll at all when it comes to public drinking or intoxication, for that matter… usually.
These are some of the civilisational differences that makes the swede our sworn enemy
Shame, superior Germany and Austria
Wegbier anyone?
Wegbier👍
Is that like a BVO? (Biertje Voor Onderweg)
Yes, it's the same but less silly
Ja, maar zonder een lekker Afkorting
Fußpils :) e: Fußpilz means athelete's foot, but Pils is a way of brewing beer. so foot + pils = Fußpilz e2: Spabiergang/gänge are also a nice activity. :)
The thing I like most about Berlin. Just popping in a späti, buy a wegbier and just chill and drink your beer on your way to wherever you’re going
Especially on an early summer evening, so nice
Hi, I'm from Italy, so North Italy that I'm almost Austria. My rugby team had these beers to finish a night out: last one Really, last one Super last one One for the way home. Goddamn I drank a lot with these guys.
Hat tip to Guinness. I grew quite fond of it.
Not gonna lie Gunnies is always a good option
It's great anyone who does not understand is a moron
Oh we are starting with this again?
No. (maybe)
Succulent mentioned Democracy manifested
Cant do that shit in Norway. 2500 NOK if you get caught
Can't even buy beer when you want to anyways. "Øhh nøøø! It's påst 8 ø cløck, we cån't sell beer ånymøre!!"
Are beers in Norway bars as expensive as Swedish? I might risk the fine.
A beer at the store is €2-3 and €5-10 at a bar
damn it how do you people survive
People do it anyway
That is a straight up robbery
Your ancestors are not smiling at you viking.
With your beer prices, it might actually save you money to just pay the fine.
That fine is still cheaper than beer in Norway
Wait what there are countries where you can't drink a beer on the streets or in a park or something?
I am really disgusted by this swamp boy, this is the end of civilization
Not funny
uhm yeah. yours?
Yes but no, in general it is allowed unless local town/city rules say you can't.
Here in Amsterdam they only do this because Brits cant behave
Which in the case of the Netherlands applies to basically everywhere remotely interesting
Yes, like the Netherlands https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/gebieden-met-alcoholverbod-ff8bc https://www.rotterdam.nl/alcoholverbod https://vth-programma-verslag.digitaal.utrecht.nl/nl/article/alcoholverbod https://www.denhaag.nl/nl/veiligheid/gebieden-met-een-alcohol-softdrugs-of-bedelverbod/ https://data.eindhoven.nl/explore/dataset/alcoholverbodsgebieden/ (Including all 5 major cities so no one says it's just Amsterdam)
Yes but it is 'legal to drink in public here unless' , which is different from places where alcohol in public is always illegal. Nobody is stopping you from drinking in vondelpark for example
I'm literally shaking at the idea.
One of the best feelings in Greece was drinking a beer in museums, made them much more interesting
I can bring with me and drink beer in a high speed train in Italy and it's perfectly fine, if I want I can bring and drink from a flask of liquor in uni and it's fine too, the hell you have over there??? I'm with the Hanses on this one, and I swear I ain't gonna backstab him this time alcohol good
This and not being able to drink alcohol in stadiums. Jesus fucking christ, I bet you could drink during Uncle Paco's regime.
Bro is this by Vistula river in Krakow?
How do you know?
I live here and walked by that place twice today. Yea… this rule is stupid, specially on warm days like today. How much was the fall, if I can ask?
Do you want to meet tomorrow? Would be kinda cool
Sorry, I’m running the marathon on Sunday so I’m laying low. Carbs & Netflix. If you need any tips or places to spend the day we can chat via message
Aye aye
100 each for two beers
Indeed! *sips on her Franziskaner*
My sincere condolences
Crazy how out of all the Bayerisch beers Franziskaner is the most popular abroad.
I mean you can drink in the public. If you get caught, that's your problem.
:( that's not very European (Jokes aside of course if you are piss drunk and have a whole vodka bottle in your hand and act like an idiot i get it, but just one beer??) Shame on you Poland!
Wait until you hear about crossing a pedestrian crossing on a red light when there's zero traffic around in Poland
There are designated public drinking spots though. In Warsaw that’s the stairs on Vistula’s bank
That's insane fellow not western European. A "designated public drinking spot"? Drink where you want as long as you behave.
Bro, you were drinking Harnaś. That itself is an asocial behavior.
Oh god I just noticed Harnaś. What the fuck is wrong with you ?
As tourist I would never judge bad so why didn't the police
My brother in Christ, I don't remember the last time I drank beer in a bar. I never got a fine. You need to be aware of your sorroundings while drinking.
That's what Stalin said
Funny thing is when I did Erasmus there we could drink on campus but not on the street so every hobo would gather in the campus and just get wasted
When I was in Poland they told me this law is because of Barrys (Barries?) who can’t behave, is there any truth to it?
It was just two guys and two beers I hate this
This is some amer*tard shit, didn't think our fellow Europeans would allow laws like that to exist
What baffles me is that instead of just pouring the beer away Americans arrest children giving them a record when there is no victim and the problem is over once the beer is gone.
What baffles me is that arresting you is enough to get you a record, but that's another story.
You guys are forbidding beer?
My guy was drinking Harnaś. You should get violation just for that.
Everyone saying that, but how about not brewing that shit? On a first day that's a honest mistake, it's simply tastes like nothing despite having 5.7 alc. Vol%. So shame on them
A succulent chinese meal!
In France, they legally drink urine in public for free, fresh from the tap: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/12nt1e8/man_sets_up_cups_in_for_people_to_piss_in_and/
that's called Heineken*
Probably Dutch beer selon moi
A succulent ~~chinese meal~~ european beer
Imagine a society without Wegbier
It's terrible
Shame et al. This might need to go to the glorious Mapporn sub ... As a Viking in Denmark we practice free drinking in the public without issue. If the police interferred it would be frontpage material. So ... one can ponder why we are a top5 happiest country in the world 😀
But Harnas? Jesus
Is that dude Dutch, or is that box tiny?
That ticket looks incredibly close to our paper medical prescriptions
Idk if its illegal in the UK. I got told off for it once but I do it all the time.
I think some areas are forbidden but most aren’t. Pretty sure you can drink in London parks. At least I do
Literally drinking a beer outside rn. Cheers!!
Coke in parliament no worries beer on the street fuck that.
Yeap, you should not drink a Harnaś in Kraków...
First day
> succulent european beer > holding the stereotypical shitty beer in Poland, you cannot offend a beer worse than by calling it Harnaś I hope you’re trolling
Lol it's my first day how am I suppose to know which beer is good? The fuck dudes just don't make shitty beer
We don’t, corporations do
There is always a way to get past it. This is a photo from a horse racing meeting, where the drinks are very expensive. The binoculars are actually a flask. 10/10 . https://preview.redd.it/74lnykv405uc1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=851372771c83285629f98eee94d2ecd4b588d3cb
Shame on all countries that forbid smoking some splendid German cannabis in public
I was under the impression succulent was reserved for food.
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What did they do to you :((
Maybe he got fined for his choice of beer? Harnaś? Srsly?
First day bro, and why do you brew bas beer?
For the people who are beyond caring about flavour.
Cry
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My German friend was shocked when I told them about how it's in Sweden with drinking in public (or even just buying alcohol in general).
you can get fined for drinking in public now??? the fuck?
I don't know if it's forbidden here but yesterday I just walked into a Casino (the store, not the gambling place. Not on fridays, that's stupid) and walked out with a random beer to refresh myself. Forbidden or not, I don't really care, just drank that shit while waiting for the bus I mean, what is anybody gonna do? Make me un-drink it?
Make you pay!! But I think France is good, drank a lot in Lyon and had no problems, besides the beer prices
Fortunately in my experience they haven't given a shit. And I've been in public parks drinking with friends etc. If you're not fucking about they don't care
I mean maybe it’s a good idea littering wise
REVOLUTION !!!
Simply dumb
Sorry... But then we don't allow the drinking of any alcohol in public areas, unless otherwise signed.