r/europe 2d ago

Picture Every country stressing about homeless people, meanwhile Poland with double side benches:

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u/tchofee Lower Saxony (Germany) 2d ago

I once laid down on a bench in Poland (Toruń, back ache, waiting for the Ibuprofen to kick in) – and in less than 10 minutes, I had a police car next to me asking what I was doing there...

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername 2d ago

When I was on university, I had 2 hour gap between lectures, so each Monday I was just circling around the campus to not sit in place. After half a year of doing that I shaved my head and was bald. The very next time few police cars was searching for me, because they were sure I want to steal something there xD

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u/asznajder 2d ago

In Poland there’s a high correlation between the length of hair and how likely are you to cause some problems (shorter the higher).

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u/AGI_Not_Aligned 2d ago

Oh boy. I'm dark skinned and shave my head.

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u/Delphin_1 2d ago

Straight to jail

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u/jamaicanmicrazy 1d ago

What about if I undercook chicken?

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u/Poiuy2010_2011 Kraków 1d ago

That'd be way less suspicious. They're referring to the stereotype of a dres/sebix/patus.

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u/smokedprovolonechz 1d ago

Looks like the start to a gay porn 

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u/folk_science 1d ago

That could actually be better, as people in Poland generally associate thieves with lighter-skinned people.

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u/Septopuss7 2d ago

A troublemaker! /s

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u/Gullible-Lie2494 2d ago

But surely really long hair means hippy and therefore cannabis user, no?

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u/PM_Best_Porn_Pls 2d ago

In eastern europe a lot of folks will assume long hair = metalhead unless it's something like bun or dreads.

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u/HerMajestyRennala 2d ago

Using is rarely a crime, afaik. Usually production and distribution are criminalised with end user considered somewhat a victim.

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u/habag123 Poland 2d ago

Using is always a crime. However, if you prove your use had no negative impact on society (usually involves proving that whatever you had was only for personal use) you can get the case dismissed.

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u/madrats 1d ago

how many violent weed-smokers have you met? unlike skinheads, they probably just disturb the peace by laughing too loud at their own thoughts :D

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u/Galaxy661 West Pomerania (Poland) 1d ago

Tbf I don't think the Polish police gives a damn about weed if the weed user in question doesn't cause any trouble or do it ostentatiously in public

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u/lorarc Poland 1d ago

Apart from how you look there are two important things here:

1) Over the years the police, prosecutors and courts just stopped enforcing it that hard. In the 90s the police would check the lint in your pockets under microscope for trace ammounts of cannabis, 20 years later they all grew up with it, haver friends who smoke and basically don't care.

2) Medical cannabis is legal and since everyone who wants can get it it also means that only underage users aren't doing it legally.

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u/Four_beastlings Asturias (Spain) 1d ago

Its Poland, not the US in the 70s

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

opposite in the US

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 2d ago

Given what football hooligans tend to do and what they usually look like, I'm not surprised they had their suspicion.

(not that you are one of course)

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername 4h ago

Yeah, I know. Especially that I look like one, big, bald and wearing tracksuit. If I wasn't myself, I'd also consider myself hooligan xD