Still baffles me over the years.. just didn't get it really was it cause he's simply an american or he has cash or just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
shareThey take his money. They're seen divvying it up afterward.
shareThey also stole his jacket
shareMark was just describing how desperate and lowly a group they were and that scene shows how low they'd go to support their habits. They picked the American guy because he was clearly naive and an easy target who didn't know where he was really. Imagine a guy like that walking into an American ghetto. Same difference.
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I find it hilarious that some American people think it was an anti American thing. The film even makes the point that it's 'the first day of the Edinburgh festival' which means tourists which are rich pickings for junkie thieves.
sharehe walked into the sort of bar you shouldn't walk into, just to use the toilet, so they mugged him. It was a hard man pub.
It's a bit like if a posh Englishman walked into a Crips bar in Los Angeles to use the John
It seems most people here haven't been in Edinburgh during the festival.
A lot of the locals in Edinburgh hate the festival (even though it brings the city a lot of business) because of the crassness and loud tourist influx (especially Americans, no offence just my experience with it).
You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Larry?!
You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Larry?!
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Exactly. The guy could have just as easily been an oblivious Japanese tourist wearing a kilt with his video camera strapped to his head.
And these kind of American rubes are just as liable to get robbed and taken advantage of in US cities at home! More likely since in nearly all West European cities the crime rates pale in comparison to US cities.
I've been robbed more times in Italian cities than anywhere else in Europe , or the 25 US states ive been to
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