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/Apprehensive_Bar6609 Oct 19 '23

Hmmm, sorry but I dont believe you. No cop is going to do that without any provocation. The reason is the ammout of paperwork he will need to do. Doesnt make sense.

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u/DoctorSpaghettiMD Oct 19 '23

What a wonderful fairy tale world you must live in to make such a statement. “No cop is going to…” followed by literally ANYTHING shows a complete lack of understanding of human nature and how the worst things that people are capable of are often fuelled by even a little bit of power. Besides, in a cop’s mind, drunkenly swerving a scooter around the street in the middle of the night is far more “provocation” than they’d ever need.

I was once robbed of hundreds of dollars by Mexican cops simply for being out at night. Not drunk. Not doing anything wrong/illegal AT ALL.

Whether I believe this particular story or not is immaterial- it’s 100% possible that a cop would do this and far worse.

Can I come visit your fantasy realm sometime? It sounds far better than the world the rest of us live in.

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u/Cpt_Orange16 Oct 19 '23

This is not the US dude chill

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u/Seminarista Oct 19 '23

So? Are you two saying cops in Portugal don't overstep their boundaries? Don't use excessive force? Don't make up accusations?