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<blockquote data-quote="Robert High Hawk" data-source="post: 1256219" data-attributes="member: 12429">A few questions to those familiar with Victoria, Australia: Is there very little to no crime there?&nbsp; Are all the city services running perfectly?&nbsp; No tax evasion?&nbsp; Surely that must be the case if the police are spending the time, energy, and resources to conceive of, produce, distribute, and then enforce this kind of thing.&nbsp; Life must be perfect there if that's what the police have time to spend on.I'm only half joking here, in very law abiding societies, the cops DO get bored and come up with minor infractions (ie: littering) to enforce.&nbsp; It's certainly possible that's the case in Victoria, hence the somewhat sarcastic question.In Germany when the media became ridiculously obsessed with Trump coverage, where even news about Jared Kushner would make prime-time news or front page coverage, I would ask the exact same question.&nbsp; Living there at the time, I knew that things were NOT perfect in Germany, and this was a pathetic distraction that many Germans took to in order to help ignore the rather glaring systematic issues facing the country, all of which were of far greater consequence to almost any news about Trump.Back to the police ad:&nbsp; If you shake your head at some random aggressive dude on a train, you are asking for trouble.&nbsp; What if the &quot;leerer&quot; has friends with him and he starts talking shit to you?&nbsp; Now you're in a position where you need to back down like a bitch, or perhaps escalate further leading to a fight.&nbsp; Over some chick who doesn't have the emotional strength to ignore/confront some dude staring at her - or just move herself to another location - or just wait until her stop hits.Anyway, TL;DR&nbsp; .... who has time for this nonsense?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Robert High Hawk, post: 1256219, member: 12429"] A few questions to those familiar with Victoria, Australia: Is there very little to no crime there? Are all the city services running perfectly? No tax evasion? Surely that must be the case if the police are spending the time, energy, and resources to conceive of, produce, distribute, and then enforce this kind of thing. Life must be perfect there if that's what the police have time to spend on. I'm only half joking here, in very law abiding societies, the cops DO get bored and come up with minor infractions (ie: littering) to enforce. It's certainly possible that's the case in Victoria, hence the somewhat sarcastic question. In Germany when the media became ridiculously obsessed with Trump coverage, where even news about Jared Kushner would make prime-time news or front page coverage, I would ask the exact same question. Living there at the time, I knew that things were NOT perfect in Germany, and this was a pathetic distraction that many Germans took to in order to help ignore the rather glaring systematic issues facing the country, all of which were of far greater consequence to almost any news about Trump. Back to the police ad: If you shake your head at some random aggressive dude on a train, you are asking for trouble. What if the "leerer" has friends with him and he starts talking shit to you? Now you're in a position where you need to back down like a bitch, or perhaps escalate further leading to a fight. Over some chick who doesn't have the emotional strength to ignore/confront some dude staring at her - or just move herself to another location - or just wait until her stop hits. Anyway, TL;DR .... who has time for this nonsense? [/QUOTE]

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