Американские журналисты спросили жителей Лондона о нарушениях закона из личного опыта — никто не ответил серьёзно Статьи редакции
«Дал сыну попрыгать по дивану в Икее, хотя не планировал ничего покупать».
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Американская газета The New York Times обратила внимание, что из-за всплеска насилия в Лондоне местной полиции перестало хватать времени на расследование более мелких правонарушений. Местный корреспондент издания призналась, что два месяца назад её квартиру ограбили, и попросила читателей поделиться личными историями.
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За несколько часов NY Times получило четыре тысячи ответов — и это только в Твиттере. Практически никто не отреагировал на вопрос американского издания серьёзно. Вместо этого в соцсетях обыграли стереотипы про британцев.
@nytimes Ordered a tea and they put the milk in first
@nytimes Someone once refused to thank me after I held open a door for them.
@nytimes I was in my local London eatery and they’d run out of boiled mutton and porridge. I was furious and reported them to the police.
Ситуаций с «нарушениями» в метро особенно много.
@nytimes Someone stood on my toe while on the tube and to my horror, they managed to say sorry before I could apologise to them. The humiliation will live with me to the end of my days.
@nytimes Woman 1st off the Bakerloo line tube at Piccadilly this morning walked up the stairs still looking at her phone. Chaos. Police nowhere to be seen.
@nytimes Someone spoke to me on the tube last week. Still haven’t recovered.
@nytimes Sitting on the London Underground, and a passenger met my eyes for more than a second. Then he *smiled*. #londonhasfallen
@nytimes I saw someone get on the tube before the other people had got off. So we killed him.
Отсылок к Мэри Поппинс также хватает.
@nytimes In 1964 a dancing chimney sweep committed a brutal assault on the English accent. Despite frequent police reconstructions on television every Christmas and Easter, he has still not been found.
@nytimes My children were abducted by their nanny and discovered cavorting with a troupe of dancing chimney sweeps.
В соцсетях также придумали, что ещё может считаться «мелким правонарушением».
@nytimes £40 cinema tickets at the Odeon in Leicester Square.
@nytimes I once saw someone drinking a hot drink with a hot meal. I called the police immediately and after a minor fracas the offender was taken away and placed in the stocks. We had a joyous afternoon throwing cabbage at him.
@nytimes Went on a date with a man who didn't text me back but still likes all my instagram photos.
@nytimes I let my small child bounce on the sofas at Croydon IKEA without intending to buy one
@nytimes Yesterday I paid 5.70 for a pint and the barman called me mate. If he was my mate he wouldn't charge me £5.70 for a pint.
@nytimes An American news organisation once asked me to badmouth my city's police for the condescending amusement of its gun-happy domestic readers. Does that count?
Раз американское NY Times спросило про преступления в Лондоне, лондонское Metro задало аналогичный вопрос про Нью-Йорк.
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