r/europe • u/xCheezyCZ • 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/agent_fuzzyboots Sweden 2d ago

this summer i was in Brno, and there was a guy sleeping on a concrete slab beside where the trams stopped, saw the police check if he was dead and when he sat up you could clearly see that he was drunk, they made him stand up and when he did the three policeman just went on their way, and the guy just went back to sleep 😂

in Sweden it would have ended another way.

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u/Marager04 2d ago

how would it have ended in Sweden?

I think in Germany the police wouldn't have even checked on that dude except he did something beforehand.

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u/ContributionSad4461 Norrland 🇸🇪 2d ago

Drunk tank for his own protection probably, it’s dangerous to be around trams when drunk.

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u/Marager04 2d ago

Oh I didn't even thought about trams or something like that in the picture. was more talking about a normal bench in the city or something like that

but even at the small stations people are sleeping in Germany lmao

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u/ContributionSad4461 Norrland 🇸🇪 2d ago

The comment you replied to talked about trams so that’s where my thoughts went! Honestly don’t know what happens if someone falls asleep on a normal city bench, I’ve never seen it happen. If it’s cold outside (so like 80% of the year) you’d probably be moved somewhere safer though.

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u/spisska_borovicka 1d ago

They have that in Czechia too, seems like these guys just didn't care