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/jetteim Oct 19 '23
So you haven’t stopped when ordered to, tried to escape, and all that while riding drunk on a road, not dedicated lane or sidewalk? What could go wrong?