That's what happens when someone comes to Germany from a war zone like America and is suddenly treated as a human being right from the start and not as a criminal.
Yes. I saw a video, where some police officers stopped a man, who was nearly blind. And because he had a cane, they treated him like some scum from a criminal gang and even arrested him for weilding a "dangerous weapon", although he showed them a document, which said, that he was disabled and needed that cane to orientate on the streets. He later filled a lawsuit against the police and won.
my PIL visited us, my FIL ask me to move to the USA after our wedding...i refused, told him let his daughter live 1 year here and lets see how she likes it... after his first visit, he never ask me again... he even start walking around in my neighborhood, like i did in the USA, which is kind of dangerous! their grand kids in the USA having School Police... my daughter never saw a cop in her schools! her oldest cousin been arrested by cops, for standing in front of her parents house at 6pm! my daughter spoke one time with a French cop, for directions...!
@@Anthyrion There are an enormous number of videos on TH-cam that show the misconduct of American police officers. Since there is not always a camera present, it is easy to calculate how high the number of unreported cases is. I watch a lot of videos on the MrStorm2 channel that deal with traffic offenders being chased and I always have to shake my head when I see how the police treat the traffic offender after he has been forced to stop. A German police officer would never treat a traffic offender like that.
@@Arltratlo In Germany, the police motto is "Your friend and helper"; in America, there is a similar motto: "To serve and protect." The only difference is that in America, the motto is pure hot air. It's good to read that your in-laws were proven wrong.
@@SheratanLP To be fair, they do not specify who they protect and serve. Moreover, the SCOTUS itself has decided that the police have no duty to protect citizens (1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County, but there are other more recent ones)
In the USA, police training lasts an average of 15 to 16 weeks. In Canada, police training lasts 6 months. In Germany the duration of training is usually three years for a degree course and two and a half years for an apprenticeship. It includes intensive legal training on the laws that apply in Germany. The requirements to be accepted into the police force are very strict and include a character assessment. As long as you do not act like a “Karen” or become agressive you won't get any trouble. Regards from Germany
@@rkalle66 Unfortunately they don't even have the excuse of the lack of training, which is at least three months of "academy" and at least the same amount of probationary service
Having a FULL crate of beer in your trunk is not suspicious. You just bought them. Having a whole crate of EMPTY bottles is not suspicious too. You are simply returning the deposit. Having half a crate of empty bottles might lead to some questions...
I can actually approve americans behaviour when it comes to encountering german police. I'm a german white guy in his late 40s. There's a university nearby that does support foreign expats and are running courses in english. I sometimes work with that university helping american students out finding their way through germany and get used to our rules and laws and culture and stuff. The other day I was asked by the university to help out three black american sisters, and so I did. One them drove the rented car, I was on the backseat, and all of a sudden we got pulled over by the police. The girls (between 19 and 21) were in shock, scared and pretty much hysterical. One officer left their car, approaching us and started in german, of course, then I explained in german and english the girls were americans, not speaking german. The officer switched to english in an instance. The reason we got pulled over: the trunk wasn't closed and there were some small wooden boards. So it was dangerous for the traffic. I stepped out, and since I couldn't close the trunk all alone, the officer joined in, stepped behind the car and together we did manage to close the trunk. Case solved, basically. The officer then wished us a nice day, went back into the car, and the police drove off. A case of about 3 to 4 minutes. It took me about 15 minutes to explain to the americans that things like these are normal in Germany, while they tried to understand what was going on. In the US, they mentioned, the cops would've been like "A white older man with three younger black girls - either a kidnapping of the white or prostitution, we should arrest them". The girls at the beginning were literally, actually scared and afraid. They calmed down a few minutes after the police car was gone. And, to be frank, that wasn't even the weirdest experience I have with americans being in Germany facing the german police.
I was almost arrested at the shore of Lake Michigan, in Ludington (1998). I had gone to swim at the lake with a friend from school, I was a High Schol exchange student from Germany, 17 years old. We had left our clothes on our towels, but when we came back, my shoes, top, and plaid jeansvest were gone…stolen! Wallets, too, sunglasses, hats! So I waited for my Host Dad to pick me up at the side of the road, in my bikini and the towel wrapped around my bum, barefoot. A police car stopped and questioned me, and instead of listening to me after my stuff had been stolen, they accused me of not having any ID and being ‚too naked‘….. When I told them the family I was staying with, they suddenly switched from suspicious to friendly, and waited until my Host Dad arrived….. He had been the sherif for years. He after told me they thought I was a prostitute or an illegal trafficked sex worker…..jeez
Yeah, its stories like this that, make me realize, while not everything is perfect in "ol Europe" that I possibly wouldn't want to live in a country, where I would have to fear the police. And for most Germans that is especially unthinkable, as soon as they realize the "possible" difference.
My last interaction with german police was pretty nice too, they 100% stopped me for the 1312 on my plate, asked for my license,id and reg, wanted to see my safety stuff i had to have in my car, couldnt find anything else,glossed over my not even street legal car and went on their way
I'm British. A few years ago I was in Chicago and approached a policeman to ask directions. The guy immediately dropped into what could only be described as a 'western gunfighter' pose and yelled at me to 'Get back!' I tried to explain what I wanted, while back-peddling like crazy but he wasn't having it and just kept repeating "Go about your business! Go about your business!", all the while with his hand on his weapon. I pretty damn near shit myself.
Was it around the 4th of July? Probably smelled some King (Queen) lovi‘n royalist lurking about to snatch the colonies back into the empire. Ain‘t havin it mate! Murica! I once had to ask for directions and approached a beat cop in NY, he definitely was giving me the wrong directions, instead of telling me he does not know the way…but at least he stayed calm and friendly during the encounter.
If she behaved like that during the traffic stop the cops might have become suspicious... This happens thousands of times every day in Germany. She is such a drama queen, it's ridiculous! The questions were totally standard. Licence and registration please. Have you been trinking or are you otherwise intoxicated? Can I see your first aid kit, warning triangle and high visibility vest please? Every car needs to have these items so police can ask you to show it to them. They might run your ID to see if there's a warrant but usually they don't. And that's it. Thanks a lot, have a nice day.
I wonder if the Us police would get suspicious by the behaviour of her?😂 If she really behaved like that, he might thought she's crazy. Usually I joke around with the German policeman about the weather or anything else funny 😅. And seldom they are angry about that!
No people are always friendly,do the wrong thing and/or act like a child in public and you´ll see that germans can be pretty rough... if that happens,it´s better you don´t understand german language so well,because it´s brutaly precise 😄
If she actually acted THAT ridiculous, that would have been enough reason for the cops to look a little closer at them. A regular traffic stop and the passenger acting this anxious? This is Germany, just relax. Answer any questions they ask you, hand over the papers they ask for. And 9 times out of 10 you’ll just have a pleasant conversation with them.
What is Ducktape? Tape with cute ducks on it? It's duct tape. But you are right, German police are very bad at foreign languages, they need an official translator for every "Lehnwort".
@@Issblodh I know. I have seen it years ago at Amazon. And yes, there was Cotton Duck tape back in the day which refers to Cotton Duck, a heavy cotton fabric, not to the bird. But in Germany we have Persil Megaperls, Ültje Pinats and the "Come In And Find Out" campaign, which are examples of really bad English.
@@MangoPango1973 didn’t know that. I’m talking last century last time I had it in my hands, so pre-amazon. Don’t think it was cotton duck as it explicitly said ducktape with a yellow duck on top of it.
International travel is sooooo common here in Germany. I mean we border 9 countrys and our highways are free of toll. International cars, people are just normal on our streets and i bet not a single german officer would beliefe she's not a national with her accent 😊😂. But still knowing where she's comming from and police practices there i can understand her reaction 😊.
They are obvously very traumatized. Sounds exactly like some soldiers freaking out about fireworks after returning from Afghanistan. Thats the opposite of funny, PTSD is no joke.
@@yves2932 This. I was watching videos about Americans being stopped and harassed by police just for walking on sidewalk. Or Americans being surprised how normal it is in Europe to take a walk alone in middle of the night.
6:59 😂 "...a little bit..." That must be a friendly Canadian understatement for "exaggerated by PTSD". Remember that even the 'lowliest' traffic cop gets at least three years of education which includes only relatively little focus on disarming a perpetrator, or worse, using their guns. The vast majority is the laws and regulations of Germany, plus de-escalation. As the cops know that the vast majority of people won't even own a gun, much less pull one on the cops, they don't have to be on edge and can remain civil and relatively friendly. In all my 38+ years of driving including as a passenger I had a total of five encounters with police randomly pulling the vehicle over that was in. Of those five cases three were after an incident involving terrorist searches, and we were almost immediately let go after the cops got even a short glance into our vehicle. Two of those stops were 1. the search for a kidnapped person, 2. after a shooting incident with one _wounded_ victim, and one armed suspect. The other two were my own fault: once I had slammed my trunk's lid so hard that my rear number plate plastic holder broke away from the screws holding it on place (it had turned brittle). I had taped the number plate into my rear window as an emergency stop gap measure as I couldn't afix the number plate with the screws at the moment. A cop pulled me over on the Autobahn by pulling ahead of me, turning on his sign "Bitte folgen" switching to "Please follow" in intervals. The cop was super friendly, reminded me I had to get it affixed as soon as possible, and sent me off with a waive. The second time I was 'interviewed' by cops when I was stuck in a construction zone on the Autobahn (again) behind a truck, right on an intersection in the Ruhrgebiet . In this area multiple highways run east-west and north-south, and I was internally debating if I should follow the instructions of my GPS navigation system on my phone. I was running late by quite a lot due to too many traffic jams. So when the navigation system told me to turn right 'right now' while I was looking at the concrete divider to my right I was contemplating stop my navigation system completely. I was standing in traffic, the lane to my left was moving stop-and-go. So unfortunately for me right at the moment I decided to pick up my phone to stop the navigation system a cop car rolls by me very slowly, sees me bend down, and pick up my phone, which already was illegal at the time here in Germany. When I looked up I saw not one, but four cops in the car grinning at me. The woman in the passenger seat indicated to me 'roll down your window'. I must have had a mortified look on my face because I couldn't help but see the cops breaking out into even wider grins, not mean or condescending, but more like a teaching opportunity moment. The woman asked me if I was aware that usage of a phone by typing on it was illegal. I nodded, chagrined, held up my phone to her to show that the GPS was indicating I should make an illegal right turn right now. In just that moment the phone repeated it's illegal verbal instruction. I told the cops I was so flabbergasted to have finally been in such a situation that I picked it up. They had seen that movement and correctly interpreted it. They told me in a forcibly serious face to not do it again, while trying to keep their faces straight at the repeated instructions from my phone. I quickly nodded, thanked them for their understanding, and again, they sent me off with a friendly wave. So I never had any truly unpleasant interactions with cops at all, traffic or otherwise.
There is a reason for the Police to have a look in the trunk: The Triangle of Warning and the Emergengy Medical Supplies. Every driver is required to have those in the car and they tend to be in the trunk of most cars. Especially the medical supplies have a "best before" date and you have to buy new packs every couple of years.
In the Netherlands nothing if these items have to be in your car. Even not the triangle but it would be better to have. No vests, no triangle, no EHBO -kit., nothing.
@@gerhard6105 in germany you are legally obligated to render first aid, so as part of that you also need to have the necessary medical supplies in your car.
Been in Germany many, many, times and police are always extremely friendly, much more than other European countries. Think they are still compensating for the past. I was rarely stopped by police ever. In Belgium a policeman once asked me whether the colors of traffic lights had a different meaning in the Netherlands... After my apology and seeing two kids in the back, he let us continue to the Antwerp Zoo with just a warning. Thanks officer!
I don't see much of a difference between Dutch police and german police, both are mostly friendly, Dutch police sometime are a bit more direct telling you what is wrong before even greeting you, but I have never been treated badly by any police.. Fun story I was once getting lost in a belgian city (Brugge) and drove where I wasn't allowed looking for a parking garage which was obstructed due to road maintenance and couldn't turn around anymore (way too busy with pedestrians) and I saw I Belgian police car coming over and so I stopped opened the window and said in Dutch, Ik ben een beetje verdwaald (I am a little lost), to which he replied "Ja dat is te zien (yes we can see that).. I felt very foolish, but they were very nice and directed me to the correct place. But I have not seen many difference between scandinavian, german, Dutch, belgian and English police. Almost all of them are well trained professionals. I have not visited other countries as much as these countries so I cannot tell, but I think this goes for most European police
Minor speeding violations only result in a small warning fine. Excessive speed limits result in driving bans (temporarily 1-3 months). Violations in special traffic situations, particularly those that endanger other road users, can result in significantly increased penalties and even the violation being prosecuted as a criminal offense.
One is fore sure, the police in the common wealth countries and most European countries are more polite. The Australian and New Zealand police is very friendly too. But don't stress the police of Belarus or Russia, and of course not the police of the US. 😮
i got warned about the police in NZ, they are street robbers and dont care much for the laws in NZ... while driving there, i avoided any contact with them, because i knew 2 guys who got beaten by them for asking a simple question... why are you stopping us?
During my first visit to the States my english partner and I (german) once were pulled over by US police. Before he let his window down, my partner said to me: "Put your hand s on the dashboard." I was confused. Whe should I do such silly thing like putting my hands on the dashboard? It took me some time to realize that US policemen are scared of everybody they stop and that everybody who´s stoped is afraid of the police. Strange. Since then I value even more our friendly german policemen and enjoy having some good jokes with them while being ticketed.
It was late in the night, like 2am, when I was driving home from the Museumsuferfest. When I approched the next town with my car, police was there controlling about everyone. The policeman asked for my documents and asked me whether I eas okay with an alcohol test. I agreed and he went to check my documents. A few minutes later he returned, handed me my documents and wished me a good trip home. Surprised, I asked about the alcohol test. "Ich riech ja nichts." (I don't smell anything from you.) And so I was dismissed. And hey, I was helping at the Museumsuferfest, so I didn't drink anything. Also, I always avoided alcohol when driving. That must have had happened in summer 2019.
If we are overly correct (we are Germans at least!), then both the Bundesstrasse and the Autobahn are federal roads, and hence both would be "interstates", as many of them cross the borders between federal states in Germany. On the other hand, the concept of "interstate" by itself does not exist in Germany. Federal road just means that the Federal Government is responsible for building and maintaining this road, and there are Bundesstrassen and Autobahnen, whose complete route lies within a single federal state.
I think so few people here get it - she was petrified because her only previous experience has been with US police - she was expecting to be treated like a criminal from the start and possibly even in fear for her life as many traffic stops in the USA turn nasty. It wasn't about the German police at all.
dont judge other people without knowing their past... sayin shes exaggerating is easy, but she may had some bad experiences... Im glad I live here in Germany police is usually pretty chill but at the same time firm.
@@maxii2975 I didn't say she's exaggerating - I said she was petrified. As for "may had some bad experiences" isn't that just what I was saying? And I repeat - It wasn't about the German police at all.
Let’s see, what was the most ridiculous thing she said. ..."even though I had my accent, it didn’t seem to be a problem" ????🤣 Her next video has to be more dramatic, like: " I had to pay my bread cash in a German bakery." Would be shattering for her, I guess.
@@yves2932 ist ganz lustig, ist ja sache der Landespolizei... Paar vom THW meinen eh wir sind ja eine Bundeseinheit, daher dem Bund unterstellt... alsoo darf uns doch die Landespolizei nicht kontrollieren, wenn wir mit ungesicherten Radladern durch die gegen juckeln, das darf doch nur die BPo... (Ohne §35StVO)... Ende vom Lied, Verkehrskontrollen sind generell Ländersache und daher darf die Landespoli das definitiv und die Landespolizei war zudem ziemlich angepisst und hat ausnahmslos JEDES THW Fahrzeug in gesamt Bayern kontrolliert... und fast alle waren Mangelhaft gesichert... klassicher Fall von Tja
If you're speeding, you very rarely get pulled over, but if so, it's mostly done for random controls that you're not drunk and the vehicle is safe. So you have to get out, show, that you have the mandatory safety equipment ( mostly in the trunk) like the warning triangle, the warning vest and the emergency medical kit. Then they also control on your back number plate has to be the stamp for registration and the stamp, that shows in which months and year the next car inspection is to be done. Sometimes they look at the tire treats or they control if your car is modified, you have to show documents, that all that is done with approved legalized parts and manor. And they look up, that you are not on a search warrant for crimes.Tese are random security controls. If only speeding controls, you are not stopped, you just get your bill in the mail later.
waiwaitwaitwait... she was talking so fast that I might have misundertsood, but did she imply that a Cop stopped them on the Autobahn BY HOLDING OUT HIS HAND?
the presence of guns does not create more crimes just like the presence of knifes does not increase crime. Crime is the result of a multitude of factors, the armamaent merely influences the extend of the potential damage. CAse in point, all of the democrat run cities in the US have the most restrictive gun laws, and the highest amount of crimes and violence involving guns, even though the toal amount of guns is lower, than in equivalent red cities. Because the guns were never the problem. Culture is.
3:44 "getting ready to put my hands on the dashboard" 😂i guess that is what you get used to when you live in the US. a little too much guns over there so that everybody is nervous that shit can go down at any second
The thing with this: Most if the time many people drive the speed limit plus roughly 10%. You know the risk and might get a ticket later on per mail. But in some places that are considered dangerous, i. e. where many accidents happen, there are police cars educating and fining people on the spot. You also know this risk. But they are not likely to use force if you comply. Decide for yourselves: The possibility to arrive at your destination in time versus losing 15-30 minutes due to traffic controls.
Imagine you are an American cop and you have to deal with people like her all day long. No wonder that these cops are so trigger-happy. It's so annoying to listen to her. Poor husband.
I had a meeting with a police officer some years ago. He informed me that there had been an accident up the road , and that i had to take a detour. Done, that's it. Soz for taking 5 seconds from your life by being precise and direct.
An "America-traumatized" person! 😅 "Oscar, the friendly policeman" was a cute cartoon in a german newspaper of the city of Cologne ("Kölner Stadtanzeiger") in former days. Don`t know if it still exists.
Indeed small offences can be paid in cash. If it get's more serious there is trouble and paperwork. As a german citizen that offence will be registered and give you point in a register. To many points and you have redo your driving license or get it revoked. Foreigners can get their car seized, depending on the offence. But there is a state in the US where the price for speeding is still 5$ (they never raised it) and most citizens have some 5$ notes in their car door.
I would even bet 80% of American police or police stops are not even as dramatic as she would have it make out to be or as Americans would make it out to be.... She even admits her own impressions of her own country's police are 3rd party hearsay as she has not ever had an American police encounter. My cousin works 9 months of the year in the US on the road and encounters American police almost every single day and he is a foreigner (from South Africa)and he has never had a bad encounter in the last 20 years.
The „Lottery ticket“ is the receipt for Verwarnungsgeld. If the police finds anything wrong they have a catalogue for monetary punishment on the spot. Its like a ticket to keep everyone honest. Driving without your dl on your person is 10 bucks and you have to go to your police station to show it to them at your earliest convenience. First aid kit beyond its best by date is a couple of bucks. I haven’t talked to a cop in about 20 years. You get caught speeding its usually a letter in the mail. Last time they stopped me for speeding i was able to hackle them down. Open my wallet „lets see what i can give you right now“ 😂
Since I am a relatively old man, I could tell a number of stories, including experiences I made with the Stalinist border police of East Germany and the former CSSR, now the Czech Republic. But I would like to tell one story here. I was still quite young, in my early 20s. The Iron Curtain had not yet fallen. I lived in Bavaria, as I had all my life before. And Bavaria is considered the Texas of Germany. And the police are correspondingly tough. I was coming home from a party with my girlfriend on Friday night. I had only drunk 2 beers all evening, but my girlfriend had gotten pretty drunk. So I drove to her house with her at about 1:30 a.m. For whatever reason, I didn't have my own car with me, but drove in my parents' car. Shortly before the entrance to her town, she urgently had to pee and claimed that she wouldn't be able to make it the 5 minutes to her place. So I turned into the first side street on the left, into an industrial estate, where I knew that the street ended in a turning circle so that she could pee in peace. As I was returning to the main road, a patrol car came from the left. I let the sheriffs pass and then turned left myself, whereupon the guys turned on their "lights" and made me stop in the first side street on the right. I got out and asked what was going on. Then the usual routine began. Driver's license, vehicle documents and the usual check of the warning triangle and first aid kit. Of course, everything was there. In the trunk, the "inspector" (the other one had disappeared into the patrol car and was checking my documents in the police computer) discovered a small garden tool belonging to my mother, which he examined curiously. Then he went back to his colleague while I sat on the hood. It was a warm summer night... When he came back from the police car, he said to me: "Please lock your vehicle. You are temporarily under arrest. However, we have to wait for another vehicle because we don't have room for you in ours..." I have probably never looked more stupid than at that moment. My girlfriend came out of the car and, drunk as she was, started to complain loudly. I finally asked why I was being arrested. At first the officer hesitated a bit, but finally he asked me if I had ever been to Berlin (West). I had actually been there several times because some of my friends were studying there. I said yes. And then he asked me if I had ever taken part in riots in Berlin (in Berlin, things traditionally go crazy on May Day). Of course I hadn't, which I also said no. He then told me smugly that the public prosecutor's office in Berlin had issued a fine of 3,000 DM against me, or two months in prison... I was really stunned. But shortly afterwards, logic awoke in me. I began to explain to him that this couldn't be possible. I've lived here my whole life and all I've ever done in Berlin is possibly park illegally. I actually made the civil servant think (!) and was able to get him to check the matter again. My girlfriend had calmed down by then. And indeed... After a few minutes, he came back out of the car and looked a little disappointed. They had the wrong fish on their hook... The guy they were looking for - and this is where it gets interesting - only had the same last name and the same date of birth as me, but a different first name and a different place of birth... He was a real Berliner. What shocked me afterwards, however, was that in 1988 they were already so technically advanced that they thought they had 90% of the right man, based on just 2 pieces of information... A short epilogue. When the situation had been clarified, the second patrol arrived on the scene to pick me up. But since the situation had changed in the meantime, I had the great pleasure of being able to say to 4 police officers: "That's it, gentlemen...", got into my car and drove away while they were still standing there like drowned poodles. After that, I wasn't stopped for 7 years! Oh, the youth... We had our fun...
Thanks for your story! Now goggle for how many times people where shot in ths US because of these mistakes, just because they looked like a suspect or had the same surname ... Be prepared, these stories are heart-breaking.
@@TheRealMisterMeister I understand what you mean... However, I have had no illusions about this in the USA since the 90s. The US correspondent of our daily newspaper once reported on a case that was almost unbelievable. The incident took place in Florida (what a surprise). A black man was driving home from work one evening (in the dark) and got a flat tire. So far, so normal... He understandably didn't want to get completely dirty when changing a tire and looked in his trunk to protect his hands. He came across a pair of socks. However they had got there, he used them as a substitute for gloves. Unfortunately, he was seen searching the trunk and an overzealous fellow called the police, who then arrived with three patrol cars to arrest the "car thief". When the police asked him to throw away his weapon (they had identified the glove socks as the weapon), he of course could not do that, because he was not armed. The police then opened fire and were hit by 22 (!) bullets. However, he survived, as if by a miracle. When he later recovered, he was brought to court for "resisting state authority". And he was not given any compensation because he had not thrown away the "weapon"... Welcome to the land of the free...
Wow, glad they survived this horrible encounter…thoughts and prayers to her husband. On another note: If you want to see some police encounters from the pov of the officers, try searching „Achtung Kontrolle“ on TH-cam. There are Autobahn, city and bike police, firefighters, food safety and many more videos about how emergency departments react on situations. It is in German though and I am not sure, that auto translation works well on some of the thick German dialects of the officers. Still worth a shot ^^
YES, usually this is what happens if there is a minor problem and you behave normally. If you choose to educate them and are not polite, the echo will probably be of the same kind.
I've had one traffic stop in the last 20 years, i didn't got my seat belt on and I'm a bigger guy so the police officer came up and asked for my "Gurtbefreiung" basically a licence to drive without belt... you apparently can get it as professional driver like taxi or if you're too far for a normal belt and i reacted without thinking and asked back "hast du mich grad fett genannt?" "Did you just call me fat?" The police officer was shocked at first but then i laughed and told him i didn't have one and what that would cost me and he laughed too and let me go with a warning to from now on put the belt on. German police everyone!😂
Here in the Netherlands you can walk by a policeman and take a pull from your joint 😅. They are very well trained in de-escalation. Also like in Germany they go on a training for several years.
License and registration are standard things the police asks of you when they pull you over even when you did nothing wrong and it's just a random check. European police isn't known to arrest you for the silliest thing or start antigonizing you. I'm not saying power trippers don't exist, they do, but they get filtered out pretty fast the moment they manifest. It's on the police themselves to justify their arrest which goes through a lot of scrutiny by the court system, there's a lot of paperwork involved so most officers are incentivized to either give you a warning or a small fine. Unless you're literally driving around with a corpse in your trunk obviously.
1. Misconception - The whole Autobahn isn't without a speed limit 2. Misconception : She is the foreigner, she expects the police to act like american cops, she except them to speak english. She can ask if they speak english. 3. She is a Karen
Be respectful receive respectful reply. German police might not always be "friendly" but that's the basics. Many Police / SovTard Videos show actually very polite and quite respectful treatment of those SovTards even being "rude". So it seems to me i would have no issues in the USA either.
Dutch Police has "waakzaam en dienstbaar" (english: vigilant and subservient) as a motto. I liked the old motto better: Vigilat ut quiescant (she (the police) watches so that they (the citizens) can rest). They also don't make a fuss about a speeding violation, as long as it's not really endangering people. Like in Germany, we have strict gun laws and nobody walks around with weapons like in the US. Even people with a license don't carry their guns 'ready to shoot'. There's only a very restricted number of people who do. Police of course, some customs officers, railroad police, air marshals, etc. And some criminals, but it's a limited number and they're usually not waving them around normal citizens. If they shoot, they mainly shoot at each other.
How to make a hysterical story out of nothing... waste of time. Does she realise she is confirming the American stereotype of every american woman is suffering from anxiety, because it is THE way to get attention.
Oh my god. The fact that she reacted that tense to the German police just shows, that shes not used to it. Totally unnecessary. But implying that you can drive as "fast as you please", just because you can on some "interstates", is a formula for trouble. Germany takes speed limits rather seriously. But still, that is no reason for a deeper concern - unless you over do it really. The Idea that a police officer might draw a gun on you in Germany, is close to unthinkable. Why should they? There are just practically no guns here out in the wild. Period.
20ys ago they only took cash. costs me always 25,-DM more , because i never had enough cash. 25 was the fee for processing it and to send it to me. nowadays you can pay by card😊
So what was she thinking? That she was being pulled over by the Gestapo? And tbh, she does not like someone who would have had too many bad encounters with US police either. Although yes, traffic stops over their really appear to a lot more tense and aggressive in general. I wonder if that might be why the officers have to assume that everyone might be armed and willing to kill them. And they go on patrol alone, which afaik never happens in Germany or pretty much anywhere in Europe. I'd say a German police officer doing traffic stops, is confronted with people from other countries multiple times a day, so no big deal. I mean, we are surrounded by other countries. For example, nowadays you will struggle to find a truck driver, who is a German citizen and not from another EU member state (most commonly Poland, but also Czechia, Bulgaria, Lithuania etc.).
LOL! Welcome to Germany. BTW, you can pay these on-the-spot fines for speeding with a card, too. The police have hand-held systems to take Bank and Credit cards. Also, in Germany the colour of their skin is of no intrest at all, either to us or to the police. I am sure there are some bad apples here, but I have never met one. I have even been stopped when I had been drinking (I was under the limit) and the police have always just been friendly, laughing and polite.
You should have a look to this very interesting video, where a german police officer stops people who want to take pictures of a dead body at an accident with an very offbeat approach: th-cam.com/video/Yn-fGIAGCGM/w-d-xo.html This video went viral five years ago, many americans watched it and celebrated this police officer as a hero!
'You guys are also white'?!!! She is Germany, the Police are a little more professional than that! While being in a mixed marriage, and being in German traffic stops several times, my late wife and I never faced any racism. Even though we spoke little German and would speak English or French if we were close to the French border.
only had to do with local patroling cops, called for noise disturbance. For the most part they looked resigned, tired, frustrated and as helpless as the people complaining about the noise at night. except this one older cop lady that looked at me like "give me a reason, immigrant assface. come on!". But her younger collegue quickly tried to take over sensing my shock. these guys seemed seriously mentally taxed from dealing with drunks, domestic violence and noise complaints all day every day. But for the most part, they still act calm and try to diffuse a situation. Was quite a sight when they finally lead the guy away with 8 people, clad in riot gear with shields and helmets, lol. But he was released the next day, like always... not much they can do when someone is shizophrenic and redecorates using weights at 3 AM.
As it is not normal here that everyone is heavily weaponed, all the time, the cops of course are way more relaxed, because they don’t have to fear for their lives constantly … maybe that’s one reason … and they are always two cops at least, so one can handle the situation while the other is securing him… so again the cop has not to fear for his live so much….that might be another reason… it’s funny how safety is affecting humans behaviors…..
I had a weird encounter last Saturday. German police stopped me and asked me where I was coming from, where I intended to go and what the purpose of my journey was. They didn’t ask for any documents and I was allowed to continue my journey after having answered their questions.
@yves2932 I never quite understood this system. Random breathalyzer tests are perfectly legal here in Sweden. Whoever drives a motor vehicle on a public road has declared consent.
the same thing could probably happen in the usa, that if you do what the police say and you haven't done anything stupid, then you would be allowed to go on after a few minutes, but unfortunately some people can't do that and they have to question everything and say that it is against the constitution.
only thing you should be careful with german police? if they start getting chummy and chatty ... thats actually when you should be VERY careful what you say in small talk...
my sensitive trigger-finger hit the "thumbs down" thrice while watching.... eventually my brain rebooted when she was done "talking" and i "thumbed up" your ability to stay so calm when she is talking.
I woeld her see to freak out in a "Allgemeine Verkehrskontrolle", a generaly traffic inspection, where the police looking trough the papers, check your car, your first aid kit, your warning triangle, your high visibility vest etc ....
Usaully, cops are tewating you as you deserve. There are exceptions, sure. As a Germin visiting thd US for professional reasons a made a U-turn where it clearly wasn't allowed. A cop pulled me over and as soon as he recognised I am not an US citizen, he was very polite and explained me what I was doing wrong. Finally ge asked me, if it is relly true, rhat in Germany we are allowed to drive as fast as we want on the Autobahn. I explained it and he left me with a warning. Same here in Germany. If you are polite and don't stress the cop, they will behave in same manner.
Drove a little too fast and the police fined €20. That was all. - The police are currently stopping random cars near the borders to look for drugs and illegal entry. - I once came under such control. The reason was that a serious criminal had broken out in the neighboring country. But I didn't have him in the car so I was soon allowed to drive again.
When I listen to this I realize that if I go to the USA I should be afraid of all police. To me The US seems to be afraid as default, very much shoot first and ask question later ( and as they let anyone own a gun the ”shoot first” isn’t just a saying). Scared people with guns = a disaster.
0:54 if more guns cause more crime, why isnt swiss much more criminal than germany? Swiss nearly goes to weapons per head as they take their service rifle home after basic training, and yet they have nowhere near as much crime.
The law in Germany isn't as fast as you want on the autobahn, it's a as fast as your car is SAFELY rated to go. If your tyres are rated for 190kmph and you are doing 200 watch out you WILL lose your licence for a LONG time!
It's sad that so many German people derogate her as "Drama Queen". If you are afraid, you are afraid. It wasn't necessary for her to be afraid, but how should she have known that? It was her first encounter with German police. I mean, if you ever have woken up with a big, fat spider on your nose, you miiight develop a stronger reaction to other spiders, don't you? It's unnecessary, but the fear is there, and you can't do anything about it.
Everybody feels a bit of anxiety with police, even policemen. At least that's one of them told me when i went there to file a report for when somebody stole my car radio.
the interstate is a bundesstrasse, not the autobahn. your erratic pausing of the video caused a bit of confusion due to the cut speech. on the interstate the legal speed limit 100kph, as she said. on the autobahn there is no legal speed limit, unless there are signs stating otherwise. police will never stand on the autobahn and wave cars out of traffic, for a routine check. they might follow you in their car and then signal for leaving the autobahn, to do their thing on a parking lot or any other safer spot.
European Police are generally OK. Just do as they say, pay the fine if you have been speeding. They will be friendly. European police are normally well-educated, and they know their mission is not to annoy the public. Off course, you can be unlucky to encounter the idiot police man. But it is rare.
That's what happens when someone comes to Germany from a war zone like America and is suddenly treated as a human being right from the start and not as a criminal.
Yes. I saw a video, where some police officers stopped a man, who was nearly blind. And because he had a cane, they treated him like some scum from a criminal gang and even arrested him for weilding a "dangerous weapon", although he showed them a document, which said, that he was disabled and needed that cane to orientate on the streets.
He later filled a lawsuit against the police and won.
my PIL visited us,
my FIL ask me to move to the USA after our wedding...i refused, told him let his daughter live 1 year here and lets see how she likes it...
after his first visit, he never ask me again...
he even start walking around in my neighborhood,
like i did in the USA, which is kind of dangerous!
their grand kids in the USA having School Police...
my daughter never saw a cop in her schools!
her oldest cousin been arrested by cops, for standing in front of her parents house at 6pm!
my daughter spoke one time with a French cop, for directions...!
@@Anthyrion There are an enormous number of videos on TH-cam that show the misconduct of American police officers. Since there is not always a camera present, it is easy to calculate how high the number of unreported cases is. I watch a lot of videos on the MrStorm2 channel that deal with traffic offenders being chased and I always have to shake my head when I see how the police treat the traffic offender after he has been forced to stop. A German police officer would never treat a traffic offender like that.
@@Arltratlo In Germany, the police motto is "Your friend and helper"; in America, there is a similar motto: "To serve and protect." The only difference is that in America, the motto is pure hot air.
It's good to read that your in-laws were proven wrong.
@@SheratanLP To be fair, they do not specify who they protect and serve. Moreover, the SCOTUS itself has decided that the police have no duty to protect citizens (1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County, but there are other more recent ones)
In the USA, police training lasts an average of 15 to 16 weeks.
In Canada, police training lasts 6 months.
In Germany the duration of training is usually three years for a degree course and two and a half years for an apprenticeship. It includes intensive legal training on the laws that apply in Germany. The requirements to be accepted into the police force are very strict and include a character assessment.
As long as you do not act like a “Karen” or become agressive you won't get any trouble.
Regards from Germany
What??? US has police training???🤣🤣🤣
@@rkalle66no its nore military training that's the problem
@@vahidintube9593 What would be the problem with military training? There are some states where gendarmerie are part of the police force
@@rkalle66 Unfortunately they don't even have the excuse of the lack of training, which is at least three months of "academy" and at least the same amount of probationary service
@@vahidintube9593 if you have been in the service they love that.
Having a FULL crate of beer in your trunk is not suspicious. You just bought them.
Having a whole crate of EMPTY bottles is not suspicious too. You are simply returning the deposit.
Having half a crate of empty bottles might lead to some questions...
🤣 genaaaauuuuu
Ist mir passiert. War aber kein Ding. Hatte nur eins, mein Beifahrer fünf. 😊
@@janenseling4295 Does this mean a crate of beer in Germany is only a dozen? And not 2, as here in Belgium?
@@Issblodh 20x0,5 or 24x0,33
The real crime is that the beer is getting warm in the car... that's unacceptable
I can actually approve americans behaviour when it comes to encountering german police. I'm a german white guy in his late 40s. There's a university nearby that does support foreign expats and are running courses in english. I sometimes work with that university helping american students out finding their way through germany and get used to our rules and laws and culture and stuff. The other day I was asked by the university to help out three black american sisters, and so I did. One them drove the rented car, I was on the backseat, and all of a sudden we got pulled over by the police. The girls (between 19 and 21) were in shock, scared and pretty much hysterical. One officer left their car, approaching us and started in german, of course, then I explained in german and english the girls were americans, not speaking german. The officer switched to english in an instance. The reason we got pulled over: the trunk wasn't closed and there were some small wooden boards. So it was dangerous for the traffic. I stepped out, and since I couldn't close the trunk all alone, the officer joined in, stepped behind the car and together we did manage to close the trunk. Case solved, basically. The officer then wished us a nice day, went back into the car, and the police drove off. A case of about 3 to 4 minutes. It took me about 15 minutes to explain to the americans that things like these are normal in Germany, while they tried to understand what was going on. In the US, they mentioned, the cops would've been like "A white older man with three younger black girls - either a kidnapping of the white or prostitution, we should arrest them". The girls at the beginning were literally, actually scared and afraid. They calmed down a few minutes after the police car was gone. And, to be frank, that wasn't even the weirdest experience I have with americans being in Germany facing the german police.
I was almost arrested at the shore of Lake Michigan, in Ludington (1998).
I had gone to swim at the lake with a friend from school, I was a High Schol exchange student from Germany, 17 years old.
We had left our clothes on our towels, but when we came back, my shoes, top, and plaid jeansvest were gone…stolen! Wallets, too, sunglasses, hats!
So I waited for my Host Dad to pick me up at the side of the road, in my bikini and the towel wrapped around my bum, barefoot. A police car stopped and questioned me, and instead of listening to me after my stuff had been stolen, they accused me of not having any ID and being ‚too naked‘…..
When I told them the family I was staying with, they suddenly switched from suspicious to friendly, and waited until my Host Dad arrived…..
He had been the sherif for years.
He after told me they thought I was a prostitute or an illegal trafficked sex worker…..jeez
Yeah, its stories like this that, make me realize, while not everything is perfect in "ol Europe" that I possibly wouldn't want to live in a country,
where I would have to fear the police. And for most Germans that is especially unthinkable, as soon as they realize the "possible" difference.
My last interaction with german police was pretty nice too, they 100% stopped me for the 1312 on my plate, asked for my license,id and reg, wanted to see my safety stuff i had to have in my car, couldnt find anything else,glossed over my not even street legal car and went on their way
@@tryxxor based plate
I'm British. A few years ago I was in Chicago and approached a policeman to ask directions. The guy immediately dropped into what could only be described as a 'western gunfighter' pose and yelled at me to 'Get back!' I tried to explain what I wanted, while back-peddling like crazy but he wasn't having it and just kept repeating "Go about your business! Go about your business!", all the while with his hand on his weapon. I pretty damn near shit myself.
that was an irrational reaction,where did he see a threat you have to wonder.
@@runeingebretsen8378 I didn't even have a red coat on 😂
@@TukikoTroy That is a good one XD
Was it around the 4th of July? Probably smelled some King (Queen) lovi‘n royalist lurking about to snatch the colonies back into the empire. Ain‘t havin it mate! Murica!
I once had to ask for directions and approached a beat cop in NY, he definitely was giving me the wrong directions, instead of telling me he does not know the way…but at least he stayed calm and friendly during the encounter.
You know, they fought desperately to get away from Britain, seems like you folks still trigger some of them instantly. 😅
If she behaved like that during the traffic stop the cops might have become suspicious...
This happens thousands of times every day in Germany. She is such a drama queen, it's ridiculous!
The questions were totally standard. Licence and registration please. Have you been trinking or are you otherwise intoxicated? Can I see your first aid kit, warning triangle and high visibility vest please? Every car needs to have these items so police can ask you to show it to them. They might run your ID to see if there's a warrant but usually they don't. And that's it. Thanks a lot, have a nice day.
Drama Queen 🤷🏻♂️
You name it👍
Hysterical drama queen
Women...
I wonder how she handles TSA (Zoll) encounters, or presenting your ticket to the train attendant.
@@ajstyles5704what does this have to do with women? Like you are the person to write not all men on a post about the r ape data
She is SO dramatic about a plain normal traffic stop ... is life so boring that she freaks out due to such a plain normal situation?
Perhaps she has had negative experiences in the US.
I saw enough videos here on YT where US police beat and kill People, just for asking for what the stop is for!
I wonder if the Us police would get suspicious by the behaviour of her?😂 If she really behaved like that, he might thought she's crazy.
Usually I joke around with the German policeman about the weather or anything else funny 😅. And seldom they are angry about that!
I never had any bad experiences yet in Germany. They where always friendly.
Same. I never had to take a knee ... wait, actually I did to support BLM in the US
No people are always friendly,do the wrong thing and/or act like a child in public and you´ll see that germans can be pretty rough...
if that happens,it´s better you don´t understand german language so well,because it´s brutaly precise 😄
@@hansdampf640 They are brutally honest, that's Free Speech. The 2nd Amendment is... nah just kidding, we don't carry guns in Germany
except during the "Hundewache"( dogwatch) 3to5am😉
If she actually acted THAT ridiculous, that would have been enough reason for the cops to look a little closer at them. A regular traffic stop and the passenger acting this anxious?
This is Germany, just relax. Answer any questions they ask you, hand over the papers they ask for. And 9 times out of 10 you’ll just have a pleasant conversation with them.
"Führerschein und Fahrzeugpapiere bitte. Nebenbei: warum hat ihre Beifahrerin Ducktape vor dem Mund...?"
Oh, I muted the GPS. She was distracting.
What is Ducktape? Tape with cute ducks on it? It's duct tape. But you are right, German police are very bad at foreign languages, they need an official translator for every "Lehnwort".
@@MangoPango1973 Here in Europe (or at least Belgium), there used to be a brand of duct tape called Ducktape. It even had a duck as logo/mascotte.
@@Issblodh I know. I have seen it years ago at Amazon. And yes, there was Cotton Duck tape back in the day which refers to Cotton Duck, a heavy cotton fabric, not to the bird.
But in Germany we have Persil Megaperls, Ültje Pinats and the "Come In And Find Out" campaign, which are examples of really bad English.
@@MangoPango1973 didn’t know that. I’m talking last century last time I had it in my hands, so pre-amazon. Don’t think it was cotton duck as it explicitly said ducktape with a yellow duck on top of it.
International travel is sooooo common here in Germany. I mean we border 9 countrys and our highways are free of toll. International cars, people are just normal on our streets and i bet not a single german officer would beliefe she's not a national with her accent 😊😂. But still knowing where she's comming from and police practices there i can understand her reaction 😊.
Just an over-dramatized American.
Actually, she's pretty typical.
They are obvously very traumatized. Sounds exactly like some soldiers freaking out about fireworks after returning from Afghanistan. Thats the opposite of funny, PTSD is no joke.
@@yves2932 This. I was watching videos about Americans being stopped and harassed by police just for walking on sidewalk. Or Americans being surprised how normal it is in Europe to take a walk alone in middle of the night.
6:59 😂 "...a little bit..."
That must be a friendly Canadian understatement for "exaggerated by PTSD".
Remember that even the 'lowliest' traffic cop gets at least three years of education which includes only relatively little focus on disarming a perpetrator, or worse, using their guns. The vast majority is the laws and regulations of Germany, plus de-escalation.
As the cops know that the vast majority of people won't even own a gun, much less pull one on the cops, they don't have to be on edge and can remain civil and relatively friendly.
In all my 38+ years of driving including as a passenger I had a total of five encounters with police randomly pulling the vehicle over that was in.
Of those five cases three were after an incident involving terrorist searches, and we were almost immediately let go after the cops got even a short glance into our vehicle. Two of those stops were 1. the search for a kidnapped person, 2. after a shooting incident with one _wounded_ victim, and one armed suspect.
The other two were my own fault: once I had slammed my trunk's lid so hard that my rear number plate plastic holder broke away from the screws holding it on place (it had turned brittle). I had taped the number plate into my rear window as an emergency stop gap measure as I couldn't afix the number plate with the screws at the moment. A cop pulled me over on the Autobahn by pulling ahead of me, turning on his sign "Bitte folgen" switching to "Please follow" in intervals. The cop was super friendly, reminded me I had to get it affixed as soon as possible, and sent me off with a waive.
The second time I was 'interviewed' by cops when I was stuck in a construction zone on the Autobahn (again) behind a truck, right on an intersection in the Ruhrgebiet . In this area multiple highways run east-west and north-south, and I was internally debating if I should follow the instructions of my GPS navigation system on my phone. I was running late by quite a lot due to too many traffic jams. So when the navigation system told me to turn right 'right now' while I was looking at the concrete divider to my right I was contemplating stop my navigation system completely. I was standing in traffic, the lane to my left was moving stop-and-go. So unfortunately for me right at the moment I decided to pick up my phone to stop the navigation system a cop car rolls by me very slowly, sees me bend down, and pick up my phone, which already was illegal at the time here in Germany. When I looked up I saw not one, but four cops in the car grinning at me. The woman in the passenger seat indicated to me 'roll down your window'. I must have had a mortified look on my face because I couldn't help but see the cops breaking out into even wider grins, not mean or condescending, but more like a teaching opportunity moment.
The woman asked me if I was aware that usage of a phone by typing on it was illegal.
I nodded, chagrined, held up my phone to her to show that the GPS was indicating I should make an illegal right turn right now. In just that moment the phone repeated it's illegal verbal instruction. I told the cops I was so flabbergasted to have finally been in such a situation that I picked it up. They had seen that movement and correctly interpreted it. They told me in a forcibly serious face to not do it again, while trying to keep their faces straight at the repeated instructions from my phone. I quickly nodded, thanked them for their understanding, and again, they sent me off with a friendly wave.
So I never had any truly unpleasant interactions with cops at all, traffic or otherwise.
There is a reason for the Police to have a look in the trunk: The Triangle of Warning and the Emergengy Medical Supplies. Every driver is required to have those in the car and they tend to be in the trunk of most cars. Especially the medical supplies have a "best before" date and you have to buy new packs every couple of years.
since the 80s, i got it in the passengers compartment...no Polizist looked into my trunk!
In the Netherlands nothing if these items have to be in your car. Even not the triangle but it would be better to have. No vests, no triangle, no EHBO -kit., nothing.
@@gerhard6105 in germany you are legally obligated to render first aid, so as part of that you also need to have the necessary medical supplies in your car.
@@patta8388 so you are saying that german driver is educated on giving first aid.
@@runeingebretsen8378 yeah, it's mandatory to get a drivers license
Been in Germany many, many, times and police are always extremely friendly, much more than other European countries. Think they are still compensating for the past.
I was rarely stopped by police ever. In Belgium a policeman once asked me whether the colors of traffic lights had a different meaning in the Netherlands... After my apology and seeing two kids in the back, he let us continue to the Antwerp Zoo with just a warning. Thanks officer!
No they are simply trained to descalate and avoid ppl freaking out. So they will try to keep it civil and reasonable as far as they can.
I don't see much of a difference between Dutch police and german police, both are mostly friendly, Dutch police sometime are a bit more direct telling you what is wrong before even greeting you, but I have never been treated badly by any police..
Fun story I was once getting lost in a belgian city (Brugge) and drove where I wasn't allowed looking for a parking garage which was obstructed due to road maintenance and couldn't turn around anymore (way too busy with pedestrians) and I saw I Belgian police car coming over and so I stopped opened the window and said in Dutch, Ik ben een beetje verdwaald (I am a little lost), to which he replied "Ja dat is te zien (yes we can see that).. I felt very foolish, but they were very nice and directed me to the correct place.
But I have not seen many difference between scandinavian, german, Dutch, belgian and English police. Almost all of them are well trained professionals. I have not visited other countries as much as these countries so I cannot tell, but I think this goes for most European police
@@yves2932 this strategy was developed after some pretty nasty demonstrations which turned blody in the 60th or so I dont know the exact date...
She needs to meet a psychologist. That level of stress for a routine traffic stop is not healthy..
German cops are professional ...
She's american. Of course she's a little bit dramatic,it's fine!her husband never gets bored...😂
„A little bit“ is a slight understatement to her reaction.
Minor speeding violations only result in a small warning fine. Excessive speed limits result in driving bans (temporarily 1-3 months). Violations in special traffic situations, particularly those that endanger other road users, can result in significantly increased penalties and even the violation being prosecuted as a criminal offense.
JESUS!! I had to stop, she was giving me TACHYCARDIA!!!! Poor husband, won’t pass 50 yo.
One is fore sure, the police in the common wealth countries and most European countries are more polite. The Australian and New Zealand police is very friendly too.
But don't stress the police of Belarus or Russia, and of course not the police of the US. 😮
i got warned about the police in NZ, they are street robbers and dont care much for the laws in NZ...
while driving there, i avoided any contact with them, because i knew 2 guys who got beaten by them for asking a simple question...
why are you stopping us?
Stay away of russian police unless you want to be milked. LOL
During my first visit to the States my english partner and I (german) once were pulled over by US police. Before he let his window down, my partner said to me: "Put your hand s on the dashboard." I was confused. Whe should I do such silly thing like putting my hands on the dashboard? It took me some time to realize that US policemen are scared of everybody they stop and that everybody who´s stoped is afraid of the police. Strange. Since then I value even more our friendly german policemen and enjoy having some good jokes with them while being ticketed.
It was late in the night, like 2am, when I was driving home from the Museumsuferfest. When I approched the next town with my car, police was there controlling about everyone.
The policeman asked for my documents and asked me whether I eas okay with an alcohol test. I agreed and he went to check my documents.
A few minutes later he returned, handed me my documents and wished me a good trip home.
Surprised, I asked about the alcohol test.
"Ich riech ja nichts." (I don't smell anything from you.)
And so I was dismissed.
And hey, I was helping at the Museumsuferfest, so I didn't drink anything. Also, I always avoided alcohol when driving.
That must have had happened in summer 2019.
If we are overly correct (we are Germans at least!), then both the Bundesstrasse and the Autobahn are federal roads, and hence both would be "interstates", as many of them cross the borders between federal states in Germany. On the other hand, the concept of "interstate" by itself does not exist in Germany. Federal road just means that the Federal Government is responsible for building and maintaining this road, and there are Bundesstrassen and Autobahnen, whose complete route lies within a single federal state.
Normal check, and police officers who noticed the woman they were dealing with simply felt sorry for the husband 😂😂
Police: Ami?
Hubby: Ami!
Police: understandable have a nice day!
I think so few people here get it - she was petrified because her only previous experience has been with US police - she was expecting to be treated like a criminal from the start and possibly even in fear for her life as many traffic stops in the USA turn nasty. It wasn't about the German police at all.
dont judge other people without knowing their past... sayin shes exaggerating is easy, but she may had some bad experiences... Im glad I live here in Germany police is usually pretty chill but at the same time firm.
@@maxii2975 I didn't say she's exaggerating - I said she was petrified. As for "may had some bad experiences" isn't that just what I was saying? And I repeat - It wasn't about the German police at all.
Let’s see, what was the most ridiculous thing she said. ..."even though I had my accent, it didn’t seem to be a problem" ????🤣 Her next video has to be more dramatic, like: " I had to pay my bread cash in a German bakery." Would be shattering for her, I guess.
2:42 She means the federal highway / Bundesstraße. The limit is 100km/h
2:09 First question: Which one?
We have the _Bundespolizei_ which is our federal police as well as 16 _Landespolizeien_ (state polices)...
some _Dorfpolizisten_ can be a bit nitpicky if they are generally underchallenged.
Die Bundespolizei macht keine Geschwindigkeitskontrollen.
@@yves2932 Aber Grenzkontrollen.
@@BlackWater_49 Zumindest hin und wieder mal.
@@yves2932 ist ganz lustig, ist ja sache der Landespolizei... Paar vom THW meinen eh wir sind ja eine Bundeseinheit, daher dem Bund unterstellt... alsoo darf uns doch die Landespolizei nicht kontrollieren, wenn wir mit ungesicherten Radladern durch die gegen juckeln, das darf doch nur die BPo... (Ohne §35StVO)...
Ende vom Lied, Verkehrskontrollen sind generell Ländersache und daher darf die Landespoli das definitiv und die Landespolizei war zudem ziemlich angepisst und hat ausnahmslos JEDES THW Fahrzeug in gesamt Bayern kontrolliert... und fast alle waren Mangelhaft gesichert... klassicher Fall von Tja
I think the main different is, that EVERYONE can have a gun.
Still say it Americans need to understand that America is not the entire world, 😢
If you're speeding, you very rarely get pulled over, but if so, it's mostly done for random controls that you're not drunk and the vehicle is safe. So you have to get out, show, that you have the mandatory safety equipment ( mostly in the trunk) like the warning triangle, the warning vest and the emergency medical kit. Then they also control on your back number plate has to be the stamp for registration and the stamp, that shows in which months and year the next car inspection is to be done. Sometimes they look at the tire treats or they control if your car is modified, you have to show documents, that all that is done with approved legalized parts and manor. And they look up, that you are not on a search warrant for crimes.Tese are random security controls. If only speeding controls, you are not stopped, you just get your bill in the mail later.
PTSD from a war zone (war on crime)
in the USA like UK, everyone who isnt a cop is a criminal!
waiwaitwaitwait... she was talking so fast that I might have misundertsood, but did she imply that a Cop stopped them on the Autobahn BY HOLDING OUT HIS HAND?
the presence of guns does not create more crimes just like the presence of knifes does not increase crime. Crime is the result of a multitude of factors, the armamaent merely influences the extend of the potential damage.
CAse in point, all of the democrat run cities in the US have the most restrictive gun laws, and the highest amount of crimes and violence involving guns, even though the toal amount of guns is lower, than in equivalent red cities. Because the guns were never the problem. Culture is.
2 Options for her Story telling🤷♂️1.Drama Quenn🤔2. She need serious help
Is she after an oscar or something?
3:44 "getting ready to put my hands on the dashboard" 😂i guess that is what you get used to when you live in the US. a little too much guns over there so that everybody is nervous that shit can go down at any second
The thing with this: Most if the time many people drive the speed limit plus roughly 10%. You know the risk and might get a ticket later on per mail. But in some places that are considered dangerous, i. e. where many accidents happen, there are police cars educating and fining people on the spot. You also know this risk. But they are not likely to use force if you comply. Decide for yourselves: The possibility to arrive at your destination in time versus losing 15-30 minutes due to traffic controls.
Imagine you are an American cop and you have to deal with people like her all day long. No wonder that these cops are so trigger-happy. It's so annoying to listen to her. Poor husband.
I had a meeting with a police officer some years ago. He informed me that there had been an accident up the road , and that i had to take a detour.
Done, that's it.
Soz for taking 5 seconds from your life by being precise and direct.
An "America-traumatized" person! 😅
"Oscar, the friendly policeman" was a cute cartoon in a german newspaper of the city of Cologne ("Kölner Stadtanzeiger") in former days. Don`t know if it still exists.
Doesn’t exist anymore.
Indeed small offences can be paid in cash. If it get's more serious there is trouble and paperwork. As a german citizen that offence will be registered and give you point in a register. To many points and you have redo your driving license or get it revoked. Foreigners can get their car seized, depending on the offence.
But there is a state in the US where the price for speeding is still 5$ (they never raised it) and most citizens have some 5$ notes in their car door.
I would even bet 80% of American police or police stops are not even as dramatic as she would have it make out to be or as Americans would make it out to be.... She even admits her own impressions of her own country's police are 3rd party hearsay as she has not ever had an American police encounter. My cousin works 9 months of the year in the US on the road and encounters American police almost every single day and he is a foreigner (from South Africa)and he has never had a bad encounter in the last 20 years.
Compared to 'murica german police is chill. There are some assholes among the police force, but there's assholes anywhere.
The „Lottery ticket“ is the receipt for Verwarnungsgeld. If the police finds anything wrong they have a catalogue for monetary punishment on the spot. Its like a ticket to keep everyone honest. Driving without your dl on your person is 10 bucks and you have to go to your police station to show it to them at your earliest convenience. First aid kit beyond its best by date is a couple of bucks. I haven’t talked to a cop in about 20 years. You get caught speeding its usually a letter in the mail. Last time they stopped me for speeding i was able to hackle them down. Open my wallet „lets see what i can give you right now“ 😂
maybe... maybe the ticked wasnt correctly written down... and maaaaaybe the cash got lost in the policemans wallet.... just speculation xD
Since I am a relatively old man, I could tell a number of stories, including experiences I made with the Stalinist border police of East Germany and the former CSSR, now the Czech Republic. But I would like to tell one story here. I was still quite young, in my early 20s. The Iron Curtain had not yet fallen. I lived in Bavaria, as I had all my life before. And Bavaria is considered the Texas of Germany. And the police are correspondingly tough. I was coming home from a party with my girlfriend on Friday night. I had only drunk 2 beers all evening, but my girlfriend had gotten pretty drunk. So I drove to her house with her at about 1:30 a.m. For whatever reason, I didn't have my own car with me, but drove in my parents' car. Shortly before the entrance to her town, she urgently had to pee and claimed that she wouldn't be able to make it the 5 minutes to her place. So I turned into the first side street on the left, into an industrial estate, where I knew that the street ended in a turning circle so that she could pee in peace. As I was returning to the main road, a patrol car came from the left. I let the sheriffs pass and then turned left myself, whereupon the guys turned on their "lights" and made me stop in the first side street on the right. I got out and asked what was going on. Then the usual routine began. Driver's license, vehicle documents and the usual check of the warning triangle and first aid kit. Of course, everything was there. In the trunk, the "inspector" (the other one had disappeared into the patrol car and was checking my documents in the police computer) discovered a small garden tool belonging to my mother, which he examined curiously. Then he went back to his colleague while I sat on the hood. It was a warm summer night...
When he came back from the police car, he said to me: "Please lock your vehicle. You are temporarily under arrest. However, we have to wait for another vehicle because we don't have room for you in ours..." I have probably never looked more stupid than at that moment. My girlfriend came out of the car and, drunk as she was, started to complain loudly. I finally asked why I was being arrested. At first the officer hesitated a bit, but finally he asked me if I had ever been to Berlin (West). I had actually been there several times because some of my friends were studying there. I said yes. And then he asked me if I had ever taken part in riots in Berlin (in Berlin, things traditionally go crazy on May Day). Of course I hadn't, which I also said no. He then told me smugly that the public prosecutor's office in Berlin had issued a fine of 3,000 DM against me, or two months in prison... I was really stunned. But shortly afterwards, logic awoke in me. I began to explain to him that this couldn't be possible. I've lived here my whole life and all I've ever done in Berlin is possibly park illegally. I actually made the civil servant think (!) and was able to get him to check the matter again. My girlfriend had calmed down by then. And indeed... After a few minutes, he came back out of the car and looked a little disappointed. They had the wrong fish on their hook... The guy they were looking for - and this is where it gets interesting - only had the same last name and the same date of birth as me, but a different first name and a different place of birth... He was a real Berliner. What shocked me afterwards, however, was that in 1988 they were already so technically advanced that they thought they had 90% of the right man, based on just 2 pieces of information...
A short epilogue.
When the situation had been clarified, the second patrol arrived on the scene to pick me up. But since the situation had changed in the meantime, I had the great pleasure of being able to say to 4 police officers: "That's it, gentlemen...", got into my car and drove away while they were still standing there like drowned poodles. After that, I wasn't stopped for 7 years! Oh, the youth... We had our fun...
" Bavaria is considered the Texas of Germany".. naaaa - Texas is compared to bavaria a gay country! ;-)
@@bschuchi71 Give me a break... It was only for, to give Americans an impression...
Thanks for your story! Now goggle for how many times people where shot in ths US because of these mistakes, just because they looked like a suspect or had the same surname ... Be prepared, these stories are heart-breaking.
@@TheRealMisterMeister I understand what you mean... However, I have had no illusions about this in the USA since the 90s. The US correspondent of our daily newspaper once reported on a case that was almost unbelievable. The incident took place in Florida (what a surprise). A black man was driving home from work one evening (in the dark) and got a flat tire. So far, so normal... He understandably didn't want to get completely dirty when changing a tire and looked in his trunk to protect his hands. He came across a pair of socks. However they had got there, he used them as a substitute for gloves. Unfortunately, he was seen searching the trunk and an overzealous fellow called the police, who then arrived with three patrol cars to arrest the "car thief". When the police asked him to throw away his weapon (they had identified the glove socks as the weapon), he of course could not do that, because he was not armed. The police then opened fire and were hit by 22 (!) bullets. However, he survived, as if by a miracle. When he later recovered, he was brought to court for "resisting state authority". And he was not given any compensation because he had not thrown away the "weapon"... Welcome to the land of the free...
Wow, glad they survived this horrible encounter…thoughts and prayers to her husband.
On another note:
If you want to see some police encounters from the pov of the officers, try searching „Achtung Kontrolle“ on TH-cam. There are Autobahn, city and bike police, firefighters, food safety and many more videos about how emergency departments react on situations. It is in German though and I am not sure, that auto translation works well on some of the thick German dialects of the officers. Still worth a shot ^^
YES, usually this is what happens if there is a minor problem and you behave normally. If you choose to educate them and are not polite, the echo will probably be of the same kind.
I've had one traffic stop in the last 20 years, i didn't got my seat belt on and I'm a bigger guy so the police officer came up and asked for my "Gurtbefreiung" basically a licence to drive without belt... you apparently can get it as professional driver like taxi or if you're too far for a normal belt and i reacted without thinking and asked back "hast du mich grad fett genannt?" "Did you just call me fat?" The police officer was shocked at first but then i laughed and told him i didn't have one and what that would cost me and he laughed too and let me go with a warning to from now on put the belt on.
German police everyone!😂
Here in the Netherlands you can walk by a policeman and take a pull from your joint 😅.
They are very well trained in de-escalation. Also like in Germany they go on a training for several years.
The last time I had direct contact with the police on the roads in Germany was 42 years ago, when I was a teenager riding around on my moped! 😂
i have been stopped by police one time as a driver i was 19 now i am 53.
6:47 facts. bro was speeding, got a ticket, payed it, and went on his way. this isnt a story
License and registration are standard things the police asks of you when they pull you over even when you did nothing wrong and it's just a random check. European police isn't known to arrest you for the silliest thing or start antigonizing you. I'm not saying power trippers don't exist, they do, but they get filtered out pretty fast the moment they manifest. It's on the police themselves to justify their arrest which goes through a lot of scrutiny by the court system, there's a lot of paperwork involved so most officers are incentivized to either give you a warning or a small fine. Unless you're literally driving around with a corpse in your trunk obviously.
This lady seems to be the kind that would really freak out if a US cop would pull her over thereby creating a Karen situation and end up in jail.
Well the police in Germany aren't permanently stressed out by everyone having guns ( and I believe they are decently paid) so things go much smoother.
It's a normal reaction, I would also be nervous if I were stopped by the police in a foreign country.
As long as you are not driving a 50ccm scooter and hear the phrase "Wie schnell fährt der denn?", all should be ok.
Police is your friend; this old word is still working in Germany. Officers can be relaxed with their "customers" because almost nobody has a weapon.
1. Misconception - The whole Autobahn isn't without a speed limit
2. Misconception : She is the foreigner, she expects the police to act like american cops, she except them to speak english. She can ask if they speak english.
3. She is a Karen
Karen is racial slur for white women.
Be respectful receive respectful reply. German police might not always be "friendly" but that's the basics.
Many Police / SovTard Videos show actually very polite and quite respectful treatment of those SovTards even being "rude".
So it seems to me i would have no issues in the USA either.
Dutch Police has "waakzaam en dienstbaar" (english: vigilant and subservient) as a motto. I liked the old motto better: Vigilat ut quiescant (she (the police) watches so that they (the citizens) can rest). They also don't make a fuss about a speeding violation, as long as it's not really endangering people. Like in Germany, we have strict gun laws and nobody walks around with weapons like in the US. Even people with a license don't carry their guns 'ready to shoot'. There's only a very restricted number of people who do. Police of course, some customs officers, railroad police, air marshals, etc. And some criminals, but it's a limited number and they're usually not waving them around normal citizens. If they shoot, they mainly shoot at each other.
How to make a hysterical story out of nothing... waste of time. Does she realise she is confirming the American stereotype of every american woman is suffering from anxiety, because it is THE way to get attention.
Oh my god. The fact that she reacted that tense to the German police just shows, that shes not used to it. Totally unnecessary.
But implying that you can drive as "fast as you please", just because you can on some "interstates", is a formula for trouble.
Germany takes speed limits rather seriously. But still, that is no reason for a deeper concern - unless you over do it really.
The Idea that a police officer might draw a gun on you in Germany, is close to unthinkable. Why should they?
There are just practically no guns here out in the wild. Period.
20ys ago they only took cash. costs me always 25,-DM more , because i never had enough cash. 25 was the fee for processing it and to send it to me. nowadays you can pay by card😊
So what was she thinking? That she was being pulled over by the Gestapo? And tbh, she does not like someone who would have had too many bad encounters with US police either. Although yes, traffic stops over their really appear to a lot more tense and aggressive in general. I wonder if that might be why the officers have to assume that everyone might be armed and willing to kill them. And they go on patrol alone, which afaik never happens in Germany or pretty much anywhere in Europe.
I'd say a German police officer doing traffic stops, is confronted with people from other countries multiple times a day, so no big deal. I mean, we are surrounded by other countries. For example, nowadays you will struggle to find a truck driver, who is a German citizen and not from another EU member state (most commonly Poland, but also Czechia, Bulgaria, Lithuania etc.).
LOL! Welcome to Germany. BTW, you can pay these on-the-spot fines for speeding with a card, too. The police have hand-held systems to take Bank and Credit cards. Also, in Germany the colour of their skin is of no intrest at all, either to us or to the police. I am sure there are some bad apples here, but I have never met one. I have even been stopped when I had been drinking (I was under the limit) and the police have always just been friendly, laughing and polite.
You should have a look to this very interesting video, where a german police officer stops people who want to take pictures of a dead body at an accident with an very offbeat approach:
th-cam.com/video/Yn-fGIAGCGM/w-d-xo.html
This video went viral five years ago, many americans watched it and celebrated this police officer as a hero!
'You guys are also white'?!!!
She is Germany, the Police are a little more professional than that!
While being in a mixed marriage, and being in German traffic stops several times, my late wife and I never faced any racism.
Even though we spoke little German and would speak English or French if we were close to the French border.
It's half a wonder that they actually stoped the car, normaly you just get the ticket by mail. 7:47
only had to do with local patroling cops, called for noise disturbance. For the most part they looked resigned, tired, frustrated and as helpless as the people complaining about the noise at night. except this one older cop lady that looked at me like "give me a reason, immigrant assface. come on!". But her younger collegue quickly tried to take over sensing my shock. these guys seemed seriously mentally taxed from dealing with drunks, domestic violence and noise complaints all day every day. But for the most part, they still act calm and try to diffuse a situation. Was quite a sight when they finally lead the guy away with 8 people, clad in riot gear with shields and helmets, lol. But he was released the next day, like always... not much they can do when someone is shizophrenic and redecorates using weights at 3 AM.
I've seen her before. She is "a bit" over dramatic, isn't she 😅
As it is not normal here that everyone is heavily weaponed, all the time, the cops of course are way more relaxed, because they don’t have to fear for their lives constantly … maybe that’s one reason … and they are always two cops at least, so one can handle the situation while the other is securing him… so again the cop has not to fear for his live so much….that might be another reason… it’s funny how safety is affecting humans behaviors…..
I had a weird encounter last Saturday. German police stopped me and asked me where I was coming from, where I intended to go and what the purpose of my journey was. They didn’t ask for any documents and I was allowed to continue my journey after having answered their questions.
Probably fishing for party ppl they can force an alcohol test on.
@yves2932 I never quite understood this system. Random breathalyzer tests are perfectly legal here in Sweden. Whoever drives a motor vehicle on a public road has declared consent.
@@andreasfischer9158 You can always refuse a breathaliser test in germany. If they have probable cause they can order a blood test then.
8:52 she only said the short American police moto the full one is "protect the chiefs wallet and serve the people fines"
the same thing could probably happen in the usa, that if you do what the police say and you haven't done anything stupid, then you would be allowed to go on after a few minutes, but unfortunately some people can't do that and they have to question everything and say that it is against the constitution.
only thing you should be careful with german police? if they start getting chummy and chatty ... thats actually when you should be VERY careful what you say in small talk...
my sensitive trigger-finger hit the "thumbs down" thrice while watching.... eventually my brain rebooted when she was done "talking" and i "thumbed up" your ability to stay so calm when she is talking.
I woeld her see to freak out in a "Allgemeine Verkehrskontrolle", a generaly traffic inspection, where the police looking trough the papers, check your car, your first aid kit, your warning triangle, your high visibility vest etc ....
Usaully, cops are tewating you as you deserve. There are exceptions, sure.
As a Germin visiting thd US for professional reasons a made a U-turn where it clearly wasn't allowed. A cop pulled me over and as soon as he recognised I am not an US citizen, he was very polite and explained me what I was doing wrong. Finally ge asked me, if it is relly true, rhat in Germany we are allowed to drive as fast as we want on the Autobahn. I explained it and he left me with a warning.
Same here in Germany. If you are polite and don't stress the cop, they will behave in same manner.
When was her video recorded? Nowadays the police are not allowed to accept cash any more. You can pay by card but not cash.
Weapons arent the problem the culture is!
Drove a little too fast and the police fined €20. That was all.
- The police are currently stopping random cars near the borders to look for drugs and illegal entry.
- I once came under such control. The reason was that a serious criminal had broken out in the neighboring country. But I didn't have him in the car so I was soon allowed to drive again.
When I listen to this I realize that if I go to the USA I should be afraid of all police. To me The US seems to be afraid as default, very much shoot first and ask question later ( and as they let anyone own a gun the ”shoot first” isn’t just a saying). Scared people with guns = a disaster.
0:54 if more guns cause more crime, why isnt swiss much more criminal than germany? Swiss nearly goes to weapons per head as they take their service rifle home after basic training, and yet they have nowhere near as much crime.
That is haow it happens, when you don`t have to expect from everybody to have a mashinegun or automatic shotgun
The law in Germany isn't as fast as you want on the autobahn, it's a as fast as your car is SAFELY rated to go. If your tyres are rated for 190kmph and you are doing 200 watch out you WILL lose your licence for a LONG time!
You are ready for Germany....
It's sad that so many German people derogate her as "Drama Queen". If you are afraid, you are afraid. It wasn't necessary for her to be afraid, but how should she have known that? It was her first encounter with German police.
I mean, if you ever have woken up with a big, fat spider on your nose, you miiight develop a stronger reaction to other spiders, don't you? It's unnecessary, but the fear is there, and you can't do anything about it.
Her reaction at the moment they were stopped tells everything about cops in the USA. Even if the whole thing is dramsttized
Mail the cash? it is not 1980s anymore...
Jesus,these Americans are properly traumatized.
Everybody feels a bit of anxiety with police, even policemen. At least that's one of them told me when i went there to file a report for when somebody stole my car radio.
BS . The cop looked for the TÜV plack on license plate. Not because the beer case. You can have a beer case beside you.
Pretend we're german to hide the fact that we're even worse drivers than what our infractions might lead the police to think.
the interstate is a bundesstrasse, not the autobahn. your erratic pausing of the video caused a bit of confusion due to the cut speech. on the interstate the legal speed limit 100kph, as she said. on the autobahn there is no legal speed limit, unless there are signs stating otherwise.
police will never stand on the autobahn and wave cars out of traffic, for a routine check. they might follow you in their car and then signal for leaving the autobahn, to do their thing on a parking lot or any other safer spot.
What an annoying and ignorant person 😒
Dear US citizens: this is how we perceive the average American 😁
Oh my god, what a hysterical woman.... 🙄
European Police are generally OK. Just do as they say, pay the fine if you have been speeding. They will be friendly. European police are normally well-educated, and they know their mission is not to annoy the public.
Off course, you can be unlucky to encounter the idiot police man. But it is rare.