I once saw someone walk up to the musician guy and contract him for a *wedding* Had seen the music guy for 2 months everyday on the train at that point, never seen him so happy.
The only street husterls that r good guys are the ones eho just play music with a contianer for tips. The ones with guitar r the worst and the saxes r the best
With the exceptions of the straight up thief in the last story, those others seem extremely straight forward and obvious to me. How dumb are you if you fall for those scams? And even if you do fall for the bait, just straight up refuse to pay. Unless you are a little girl like Tabbes, otherwise they will presumably give up since you are in a well-policed tourist spot. Doubt that many of these scammers are willing to escalate to armed robbery of you. (To be fair, I am a big size man).
@@John_Smith_86 yeah thats a good point but you can also Yolo it, start making jojo references, go full karen scream at the dude until they accept that youre too crazy to try to scam
@@inky5595 Nah. I am big and I am a man. I bet most scammers would give up easily. (To be clear, I am not boasting that I am good at physical combat. I mean that scammers generally don't do armed robbery)
My trick for people on the trains, carry charity cards, give them one and say, I can't help you right now, but they really can. Extra points if it's a local one
My tour guy actually told us to be careful about the characters. Especially the Elmo's because exact quote "one of them stabbed someone last week when they didn't tip enough". That thumbnail brought back so many memories.
the “oopsite guy” happened to me before in the metro station of spain, barcelona. except instead of me “breaking” something.. he tried to pick pocket me with an obvious sweater hiding his arm so i wouldn’t see. i threw a whole ass fit and he got so scared.
it's kinda hard to be friendly towards smalltown locals who're friendlier than you. Like this vid says, urban living is constant hustle, so city folks are conditioned to be brusque and consider lack of unnecessary friendliness as mutual respect. It really threw me for a loop when I moved back to my hometown after years in a foreign megacity, even now I'm still considered a bit cold by the locals.
Hiccups probably because when people come to small towns we’re treated like we’re stupid by people from big cities. In Canada anyway I can’t speak for the states
I live in nyc and I’ve seen tourists (especially ones from the south and Europe) gawk at me/ask for pics bc i have multicolored hair like I’m a human not a s t a t u e
Every NYC person knows those kids that say, “I’m not getting into any trouble. I just want money in my pocket. I got welches fruit snacks, oreos, lays...” or those kids/adults who want you to sign and donate to their basketball team.
When I was in NYC I was horrified of the “dollar store disney characters.” My dad told me they were trouble, also some of them just looked spooky as hell.
Nova Typhoon Times square sucks. There literally isn’t even anything to do there except maybe eat at a crap chain restaurant. I thought it at least had night life or something but nope
I was once on a school trip to NYC and we passed the “dollar store Disneys” and our teacher said “don’t take pictures or they’ll stab you” now I want to see a fat cigarette smelling what I assume was Mickey Mouse stabbing a kid.
A child That is smart I am also from Upstate New York and I feel like I become a worse person the few times I visited that city, so I guess I fit the asshole part!
For everyone who wants to go to Paris : Be extremely careful with the taxis because some of them will try to make you overpaid (like 100 to any money your thinking) just for you to know the normal price of a taxi is 50€ for a Paris - Royssi Charles de Gaulle From a French guy Ps : My apologies if I made a mistake in English
My family and I went to Mexico and a guy sold us these $10 bracelets with our names on them the total cost was $100 after we bought them and were walking down the street we see that about 20 other shops are selling the same exact bracelets for $1 each🥲
10 family members? Y’all got hit with the “Entrepreneur”, and his _service_ was bringing those bracelets to you first and selling them to you guys to make them seem *$10 QUALITY!*
Some extra survival tips: - Just have a bouque with roses with you, so if they try to sell you stuff, turn the tables and start asking if they want to buy some roses. - Say you're from some country with the most impossible language and speak super broken English. - Just R U N - Talk nonsense to them. - Wear something hella shady. - Have headphones on, cuz people won't want to invest time in a person that can't hear them. You can also just pretend that you're deaf. (Edit: This one was more for people that try to sell ya anything, cuz it's true that with robbing it is a whole different story-) - If they get in any way agressive, make a scene! Acuse them for attacking you or something. They'll probably shush you and yeet the heck outta there. - Final tip! Be always around people. Don't go into shady places with no people, even if it is a short-cut. Either take someone with you or take the long way home to you hotel. Goodluck! Edit: Tbh, I ain't from America, so Idk how it works there. These are for any country you go to. Just remember that some of them work better in country A then in country B.
Yup, headphones are just great even if you don't listen to music. To respond with confidence in a foreign language can cut it short too sometimes, if you happen to know one.
One time when I and my son did our weekly fun at Wynwood he was peeling stickers off of walls to collect and put in our book. Then some tourist who thought she knew the land (despite us living there for 5 Years at the time) said "No don't take it off! It's part of the art!" my kid silently said " no it's people putting stickers over someones art to promote there Instagram" lol
I remember a line in a 85 dollar budget film called “Who killed Captain Alex?” The line went “Im making German food” “German food?” “Yeah, we found German tourists, we’re cooking them”
i had someone try to sell me a cd, i looked him dead in the eye and said "a cd? what is this 2012? go on soundcload if you want to make it semi-relevent" (edit: this happened on my 2018 vidcon trip, as for the soundcload i was being sarcastic)
I told a guy that tried to sell me and my gf at the time a mixtape I was like bro you ain’t Mac Miller. He got all hostile with me telling me he’s better than him. and then spotted clear tourist and ran up to them 😂
I hate it when tourists come around and treat the locals like trash, take stuff from historic sites, leave trash everywhere, and drive like nutcases. Please don't be like that when you travel. People are allowing you into their city/town and showing you what makes it special. The least you can do is respect them and the place they call home.
Yea one day i was going from the beach when some tourists droped a empty bag of potato chips in the sea,AND LAUFGHT AFTER IT,another time my family and me were outside walking when a tourist came by a statue of my countrys historycal figure and said"whos this guy with a sword?" Like you could have atleast read the little sign RIGHT THERE
I remember I went to Paris and my mom literally took a photo of the tiled floor cause it looked "satisfying" Edit: not to mention she put the photo in her favourites. SHE NEVER DOES THAT
When scammers walk up to you, just start acting like a psycho meth-head. You know move around weirdly laugh like a maniac do the eye twitch. They'll leave you alone most of the time
There was a guy who would beg people for money in the town i live in at university. I ran into him 2 times and got pretty lucky with the exchanges. First time i was walking home from another guys flat at 3 in the morning and this young dude approached me, gave a sob story about how his parents died the week before and he needed money to support himself, i lied and said i didn't have my wallet on me and he started calling me a cunt amongst other things. Next time was outside the shop under my building, gave me the same sob story about how his parents died the week before. Thing is this happened a month later and i loudly exclaimed "i thought your parents died a month ago, now you're asking for money because they died last week". I said this out loud because there was a lot of people and a security guard for the shop right by the door. Needless to say people were pissed at him and the guard told him to leave which he did eventhough legally he didn't have to. He was swearing at me as he was leaving. I wanted to get him away from the area because the shop was directly under a student accommodation and i didn't want the people in my building, especially my friends to get suckered by a fraud. There were a lot of fake beggars in that area so you really need street smarts there
Happened to me but funnier So same thing his mother "died" and then he was following me to the grocery store and then gues what HIS MOM FUCKING SHOWS UP AND SAID "Is this a new friend you can beg with?"
Aight imma sound like a bit of a dick for this one: but i never give money to beggars. Donating to foodbanks and charities like unicef is way smarter cause they arent going to scam you. And donating to charity organisations means youre helping a bunch of people, not just 1.
If that happened to me, I'd be like "Sorry my friend, but accepting free gifts is against my religion" And then they'd ask me what religion And I'd come up with something real-sounding on the spot, like "Meritarianism".
Top tips from a Holiday Safety Officer: If you're a sucker, you'll get sucked in, and they'll never give a sucker an even break. The Metro/Subways are not for you. It's like a moth to a flame. Never take a freebie - doesn't matter if it's a CD, photo, a drink in a club, or even asking for directions. As the man once said "there's no such thing as a free lunch". Anything you keep in plain sight can be out of your sight in the blink of the eye. A cellphone in your hand is basically a handful of cash to a thief. If you insist on keeping it out, you might as well hold your wallet out in your other hand too. If your hotel says "we don't accept responsibility for anything lost/stolen from the safe in your room", they're on the take. Don't use the safe. If your hotel room has a balcony, most can be opened from the outside even if it's locked by lifting the glass patio door up and over the locking mechanism. Don't leave anything behind that you don't mind losing. Always take out insurance before you travel. Worst case scenario and you're being forced to hand over your belongings, just hand them over. Things can be replaced, lives cannot.
Even though it should be avoided a lot of people don’t have cars do you know that they’re expensive right and not everyone can walk from Manhattan to New Jersey
@@nestor8682 Totally agree. If it's your last (affordable) option, then by all means take the subway. Most tourists leave their common sense at home though, and you really need your wits about you on the subway in any country. US, UK, France, wherever.
as an introvert, if someone ever bumped into me on the streets and then asked for money for whatever they broke or dropped i'd need a 20 minute breather to get enough courage to even respond with "i don't carry money around"
I remember this "people dressed in crappy costumes" scenario happening to me in New York. My cousin and I were visiting New York as tourists,, and note that we were both 12 at the time. We were probably around time square where we encountered the ugly ass looking people wearing costumes, luckily our parents told us to ignore them. While we were walking past the crowd, my cousin was clinging to me for safety. Then this Deadpool guy literally came out of nowhere and started to cat call my cousin, and inched closer and closer to us. When we realized that Deadpool guy was talking to us, we started walking a bit faster.. but... the Deadpool guy literally took my cousin's arm and tried yanking her away from me. I stg I've never been so horrified in my life. Not to mention my cousin was a literal minor,, I tried so hard to pull my cousin away from that creep while he continued saying disgusting things. It took a few seconds until my dad, who is intimidating, to say "Fuck off," making the Deadpool guy back away. All I can say is that whenever you visit New York and see these costume people.. don't interact with them, and please stay safe.
@@sangonomiyakokomi5764 To clarify, my cousin and I were following our guardians through the large crowd. My parents could never allow us to walk alone 😅
as a fellow female from the city i’ve experienced almost all of these. we’re all assholes. you have to be if you want to live. avoid traveling alone at night at all cost. ladies, don’t be afraid to kick up your heels one night when some dude is following you. stilettos make it harder to run but can really stab a fool. facetime someone. carry a taser. a pocket knife. trust issues are your strengths in the city.
I’ve got a nice story my dad told me about his trip to a mew place: he was boarding a train,then as he was getting on a 70 or 80 year old lady robbed him and ran away he never actually caught her like- come on dad you were 21 and she was 70 or 60? 😂
I remember getting sucked in by one and my mom tried to pull me away and when I tell you that Latina Minnie Mouse was this close 👌 to strangling my arm I mean it
@@forsakenfish well so long you only use it on scammers it ain't,like don't try to pay your groceries with fake printed money but if you are doing it to mess with a scammer or to mess with your homie its completely fine
Welp I’m from Manhattan and whenever I see a homeless person I always want to give them money (my mom sometimes won’t let me) but once I was on the train with my grandma and I had candy so I gave it to a man that was asking for money he thanked me and I saw him eat it from the other side of the train I feel like he was actually hungry...I felt good that day
I legit when I was child and my family went there as tourist, it was night we went there, and I knew something was going to happen, my 11 year old brain was all like "just ignore EVERYONE and wacht the lights" and then, from the distance... literally two woman naked with 4 of July looking costumes. The only thing that was hiding their chest, was paint. I was traumatized that nigth
@LALA don't worry, it didn't affect me outside from that nigth, and it was 5 years ago, so it dosen't really matters to me now, just something I wanted to tell
6:05 I fell for that one once, some random dudes in disney character costumes came up to me and my friends and took a picture not mentioning the price, and then AFTER THE PICTURE WAS ALREADY TAKEN they told me I had to pay 50 bucks for it. Like bro I don’t have that much cash in my wallet at all times-
I know right. In my senior year of high school we got to go to New York for a trip. I was in a group of sophomore and a junior. The sophomore a complete extravert wanted a with Mickey Mouse. So we all got in it and well next we got threaten to give them money. Well her to be honest because was from a rich family. Should have gotten a cop since there was one just a block away but didn’t want to leave the two girls alone. For the rest of the trip we avoided those character.
This happens in Australia too. There have been many interesting tourist interactions around me. I have very curly hair and tourists have asked for photos with me. Especially in those places you can hold sneks. A whole tourist group tried to steal my families sausages though while they were being cooked on a public bbq.
True Story: I lived in Houston and when I was walking home from the bus stop after work (I still had my security guard blazer uniform on) I was at the local corner store buying myself a beer. The old lady walked up to me and sweetly kept complementing me on my work uniform, and sucking up to me. Afterwards she asked me If I could buy her a beer too, I simply said "No." She replied with "DAYAM YOU MEAN!" and in my head I wanted to say "And you're too old to seduce a guy who can barely afford a beer for himself." I said nothing and went on my way.
In my first year spanish class one of the other students was telling us about his trip to mexico and apparently he paid $20 for a pair of sunglasses and somehow thought that was a good price. Our teacher taught us how to ask prices and barter in spanish after that lmao
When I went to new york, this dude gave us his mixtape, I was like sure, I'll take a listen, and walked off. He was like nah man, you gotta pay me for it, dude what was I gonna do? I was like 15 with my younger brother and mum, he was 6 foot 5 or something, and by then he and his homies had surrounded us. First interaction I'd ever had with a black American, I'm not racist, but I've seen the movies. Needless to say, they hustled us good, and we ate $1 slices of pizza for dinner that night to remind us of our mistakes.
I went in to nyc recently and I had remembered some of the advice this video had given me even after almost a year since I watched it. And my dad almost fell for the Rapper scam and I started to panic but luckily we got away without having to buy anything 😭
Honestly this is the best advice anyone can give you! People can be totally obliviously and naive. Thankfully I have always had a RBF so I was never messed with before
and if someone looks homeless, crazy and on drugs, they're hommies won't do shit to you, you can ignore them or exchange some random words with em. it'll be fine, they seem scary but they're fine, can asure u they'll be happy to chat
In Italy, these ladies had a picture of whom they reffered to as their grandson who had leukemia. But the thing was, all of them had the exact same picture. And a friend from our tour group said he saw all of them talking about how much money they got.
@@sian186 I was a tourist nothing happened to me tho, I'm here for most of my life and I don't think they do that like.. Casualty. If we are talking trieste but if it was like milano then I know what u mean.. A bit. I was there for a week, nice place
Things you need with you when your a tourist: 1. Monopoly money 2. Phone (to record) 3. Addidas,Nikeys 4. A child 5. Finale make sure to tell them you were a quiet kid in school
2:42 I actually remember learning this one twice. First time was when I was nine second time was when I was eleven. I was in Vancouver with my family while we were walking through Chinatown, and some woman and a younger girl were asking people for help because their car had broken down and they needed help getting it repaired. My family kept us walking and I asked why we weren’t helping them, and my father told me that they were lying. The other time I was on the subway in New York City with my dad, and this exact thing happened. I wanted to do something here as well, but my dad saw and made sure I stayed where I was until we got to out stop.
Spotting a tourist in Chicago is easy. "Hey can I get a Chicago style pizza?" Nobody calls it Chicago style unless you're not from Chicago. We call it "Deep Dish" because it actually tells what kind of pizza it is and is actually descriptive. Also the s in Illinois is silent YOU FOOLS.
As an attractive city girl myself, I'm more worried about older men trying to grope me than scammers trying to hurt me so if anyone tried asking me for money, I'll just tell em"sorry bro I'm broke" or "I'm not interested please leave me alone" and if guys get touchy grabby on me I got a tazer and this is why I dont carry money in my bag just spare clothes and sketchbooks and I keep my money in my brassiere or my socks
Dude if I went to Sweden you can bet I'm going to try avoiding people like the plague, I'm just not a very social person especially when it comes to new people.
Usually in America it's seen as polite to say "hello" or "good morning" to someone if you see them on a walk. It's like a Pokemon trainer battling you for making eye contact with them
"What comes to mind when you think of tourists." Idiots blocking the cycle paths who don't get out of the way no matter how aggressively you ring your bell.
I’m currently doing a pre-college in the city and I ran into one of those sob-story folks while heading back to my dorm. I made the dumb mistake of making eye contact with him and he pulled me over and gave me a sob story before asking for money. Obviously I didn’t give him my money, so he asked for my card and that’s when I knew this man was playing. Look confident, act like you’re hurrying somewhere or calling someone, listen to music, or simply ignore them. I’m speaking from true experience and I’ve never had another encounter like that since 😂
Brazil: be a tourist. People love tourists here, and it is not like they’re gonna mug you because you’re a tourist. They’re gonna mug you because you were walking out in the street with actual good clothing and maybe even your cellphone/wallet visible! Are you out of your mind?!?!
Please here is some advice if you ever come to Egypt 1 learn Arabic cuz nobody gunna speak english 2 ask locals for real prices and never spend dollars or euros 3 dont donate to all homeless because alot of ppl fake homelessness 4 these rules don't apply of u are going to a hotel with it's own private beach
FB Kronix yeah I inherited a bread factory and I lived with my grandmothers and the house is like a haunted house on massive cliff and I got fee sweets
As a formerly homeless man in a large city, yeah. It's the number 1 rule of the city. Trust nobody. It's why everybody is so shitty to each other, but it comes with a reason. The reasons are what Tabbes here described.
it’s the people who get mad when u bump their food away. i’ve been to nyc so many times and when that shit happens u just gotta run. like i don’t care if the person is mad just book it. don’t give them money don’t even look back. it’s worked for me so many times.
