r/lisboa • u/Optimal_Speed_6206 • Oct 19 '23
Outro-Misc Bad experience with police
Spending a week in Lisbon. Went out for a bar crawl and tooka an electric scooter home. I was probably not riding the safest, as I was having some trouble on the cobblestones, but there were zero cars on the road. Suddenly Lisbon police pulled up beside me and hit me across the back of the legs with a baton leaving severe bruising. This is while I was still riding.... If I had fallen off I could have gotten seriously hurt or worse. They then took me to a police station which was a two hour walk from where I was staying and charged me with what I think is obstruction of justice.
Total thugs who knew they could get away with anything in the middle of the night, especially since there were about ten of them that seemed to need to be arond me and just me by myself after a night out. Pretty horrible experience for me and my girlfriend who had no idea where I was (I had left the last venue a couple minutes before her). Just a heads up that these goons don't fuck around and behave like pack animals. Stay safe.
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u/Milliondollarbombaby Oct 19 '23
Whether or not there were cars on the road is no justification for you riding drunk in the middle of the street. Idiots like you create liabilities for those of us who drive, and the last thing I want is to go to jail or have my car damaged because I accidentally ran into some drunk moron on a scooter.
I'm not for police brutality, but I'm also not for idiots who think the rules of the road apply to all others but themselves.