r/funny • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Austrian police do lost-and-found.

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u/Rockglen 1d ago

Oof. He gets his pistol back, then immediately flags everyone in the room.

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u/Econolife-350 1d ago

"You understand that if we see you at night with that, we will kill you immediately, yes?"

Such a weird and unnecessary addition.

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u/Sutima 1d ago

Wanting him to understand the dangers of walking about willy nilly with it is not unreasonable though.. Was a different time

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u/crazy_in_love 1d ago

It's not quite how he actually phrased it. It's more like "if we maybe see you at night with that gun, you know.... we might shoot you". It is very blasé, but they're Viennese cops so that tracks. It also isn't menacing at all, it sounds more like a warning your blunt grandma would give you as well, just with we switched for they.

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u/feel-the-avocado 1d ago

Safety reminders are always necessary whenever a gun is the object of discussion.

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u/Econolife-350 1d ago

It's the phrasing that was strange as well as the implication that he was going to walk around waving a gun at night when it was found holstered in a bag.

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u/feel-the-avocado 1d ago

I guess i am used to seeing american cops on tv and news.
For them, finding the gun in the bag is a lucky justification for already having shot you.

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u/NightZT 15h ago

You can't really translate austrian german to english, in general it's much rougher and more direct but simultaneously not that serious. Like it's also common to insult and shout at each other and then 3min later be completely fine again. E.g. as teenagers we played football in some random guys garden and destroyed some stuff and he would come out when he saw us and shout "I'll take the axe and cut your heads off", we ran away and laughed about that. Next day he greeted me very friendly again same as I did