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Wow Norwegians are so nice, even the criminals lol


Hei hei, maybe some Norwegians here can help me understand. Is Stavanger a small town with near zero crime rate?in the movie Random bystanders walking pass the gunmen and were like? "sir are u the swat team?" "can I walk pass?"

If this was in the USA the robbers and police would have exchanged gun fire long ago and many people would've been shot. And neither the robbers nor police were very organized.

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Stavanger city has a population of about 120 000. A robbery of this scale was unimaginable in a small country like Norway, let alone Stavanger. People didn't realize what was going on, probably thinking it was military police practicing or something.

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Yes and no.

The robbers standing guard kept calm, unlike many other robberies. Robbing a bank full of people in the middle of the day, is pretty far from what happened here.

We don't have much of this, and the police don't even carry guns (except when special circumstances require it, like this).

I'm somewhat surprised myself, and always thought people in the cities like Stavanger would react more to this. Small towns located close to military bases are used to seeing soldiers with guns, but In "large" cities like Stavanger people tend to react to this. I know that vehicle mounted guns have been covered up during parades.

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Stavanger is a mid sized town located close to military bases..

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Like the other posters said, people didn't know what was going on. Interviews with bypassers showed that most people assumed it was some sort of exercise. Besides, the robbers were very passive and showed no reason for bypassers to stay away, except that they had guns. Also if you are a civilian and walking along, it's not unlikely that they assumed the robbers were SWAT of some sort. I probably would have acted the same way.

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I live in a slightly smaller city in sweden and I gotta say that I don't know if i would act different as a bystander if it where to happen here.

And about the criminals being nice.. just cause they stray from the law and are robbing the bank don't mean they gotta be cold blooded massmurderers, why shot at civilians if there is no need? If for nothing else it would be waisting bullets.

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lol cool. i'm in canada. oh man i would love to live in scandinavia. i think the culture there is like totally ME, unlike canadian culture. lol

hopefully my dream can come true.

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Well it's very easy to say that now, AFTER THE FACT, you would act differently, because now you know what's going on. This is called a hindsight bias, meaning you know what you could have done.

Realistically, if most people walked by that robbery (before they started shooting, of course), they would think something like "That's weird. Something must be going on. I don't wanna look silly by alerting anyone, though. Besides, everyone else seem perfectly normal. Probably a drill or a movie shoot or something"

If you don't believe me, check out Latine's research. When an emergency happens, the first thing people do is looking around to see what everyone else is doing. If no one is panicking or giving aid, you assume everything is fine, and you keep walking. It's easy to sit here and say "No I wouldn't do that", but chances are you would. Something like 90% of the population would just walk through this robbery. They might notice, they might think it's weird, but they wouldn't do anything about it.

This is before the shooting starts, of course. While shooting people would be more likely to run away or alert authorities because the danger is more obvious.

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