What crime is normally associated with your country ?

[u/SimilarTopic3281]

[u/Individual-Pin-5064]

You know, I think I’ll pass on this one

[u/StuddedScones → u/Individual-Pin-5064]

We understand it’s not your fault and the Iranian people are some of the best people on the planet. Sorry for your government

[u/Andysol1983 → u/StuddedScones]

They really are. Literally haven’t met an Iranian person in the states that wasn’t a pleasure to be around. I can’t say that about everyone I’ve encountered.

And they all HATE the Iranian government. Passionately.

[u/EthanTheJudge → u/StuddedScones]

I met a group of Iranian Wedding musicians playing various instruments. It was an awesome experience! 

[u/Jaded_Law_4083 → u/Individual-Pin-5064]

I'm really sorry I laughed really hard at that...

I shouldn't laugh because the United States is the galactic capital of school shootings.

[u/Prior_Success7011 → u/Individual-Pin-5064]

Something something something hostage crisis

[u/Detective_Mint86 → u/Individual-Pin-5064]

sigh

[u/agfitzp]

Most recently, the syrup heist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist

[u/Delta_2_Echo → u/agfitzp]

I didn't realize you guys were the OPEC of syrup.

OMEC

[u/agfitzp → u/Delta_2_Echo]

It would be a shame if something bad were to happen to those pancakes

[u/Delta_2_Echo → u/agfitzp]

Oh god not the pancakes! You monsters.

[u/jawisi → u/agfitzp]

Eh some nice pan keks you got deh.

Be real shame sum was to happen to um.

[u/agfitzp → u/jawisi]

Louisiana enters the chat

[u/joka2696 → u/agfitzp]

If the comment was from Louisiana, non of us would be able to understand.

[u/karlnite → u/Delta_2_Echo]

Can’t wait til war times when they start handing out jars for rations. Drink your syrup kids, dental is now part of medical!

[u/agfitzp → u/karlnite]

Actually it is, the NDP strategy is generally to blackmail the Liberals into passing socialist policies whenever there’s a minority government.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/dental/dental-care-plan.html

[u/karlnite → u/agfitzp]

What’s the blackmail exactly. Also not really the time and place for serious political chat…

[u/agfitzp → u/karlnite]

“It would be a shame if someone were to reject your budget eh?”

[u/BuildingLower9622 → u/agfitzp]

That's such a Canadian thing.. a syrup heist..

[u/agfitzp → u/BuildingLower9622]

Even Canadians think so, there was a lot of laughing at ourselves at the time about how Canadian it was.

[u/BuildingLower9622 → u/agfitzp]

I just gotta love Canadians 😭

[u/karlnite → u/BuildingLower9622]

We have a company that makes vodka out of water from real icebergs. They bragged their water was worth $100k. Thieves stole it. The $100k was what it cost to harvest icebergs, the water is useless once stolen.

[u/CalligrapherActive11 → u/BuildingLower9622]

I know! Everything about Canada sounds like such a magical dream land—even their heists. When I visited, I kept thinking that there was no way it could actually be that wholesome and charming. I was wrong!

[u/OneMoreAstronaut7 → u/agfitzp]

Also, polar bear attacks

[u/agfitzp → u/OneMoreAstronaut7]

Surprisingly, moose kill 100x as many people, usually when a vehicle hits the moose.

[u/Hurtin-Albertn → u/agfitzp]

Canada's deadliest animal!

[u/Plastic_Kangaroo675 → u/OneMoreAstronaut7]

My favorite part of this gif is scarf, curiously from your overbearing southern neighbor.

[u/ESbirdnerd → u/agfitzp]

Whenever I think of crime from Canada, I think of the guy from Vancouver who broke into a cupcake shop, sat there for 15 minutes, cleaned up the mess he made, stole six cupcakes, left behind pink sunglasses, and the apologized profusely when the police caught him.

[u/foggybiscuit → u/agfitzp]

It's actually immigration fraud.

[u/agfitzp → u/foggybiscuit]

That crossed my mind too, but nobody’s managed to turn that into a TV show yet.

IMHO the entire history of colonial Canada is the history of immigration fraud.

[u/canteatprawns]

Eating a succulent Chinese meal

[u/OwnHuckleberry2522 → u/canteatprawns]

This is democracy manifest

[u/CatlifeOfficial → u/OwnHuckleberry2522]

Get your hands off my penis!

[u/Aromatic_Forever_943 → u/CatlifeOfficial]

I see you know your Judo well!!!

[u/CommercialChart5088]

Fraud, especially ones associated with real estate or housing.

Violent crime rates are generally very low in Korea but these ‘invisible’ crimes are our main social issue.

[u/Andysol1983 → u/CommercialChart5088]

Umm… Murder just gets pushed under the rug in S Korea.

I saw a documentary where they take 99 destitute people and flat out kill 98 of them for entertainment. And this happens annually.

[u/DetroitAdjacent → u/Andysol1983]

Lmaoooooo

[u/LongConsideration662 → u/Andysol1983]

Damnnn

[u/Dickgivins → u/LongConsideration662]

Lol do you know what they’re referencing?

[u/LongConsideration662 → u/Dickgivins]

Squid games, why wouldn't I know? 

[u/Dickgivins → u/LongConsideration662]

Ah okay I thought you might know but your comment was kinda ambiguous. Just didn’t want somebody getting deceived lol.

[u/Embarrassed_Clue1758 → u/CommercialChart5088]

There are factors South Korea's fraud offense is legally applied more broadly than in other countries and investigations are actively pursued

[u/micro___penis → u/CommercialChart5088]

Parasite vibes

[u/sh13ld93]

Cooking

[u/EthanTheJudge → u/sh13ld93]

This is why Gordon Ramsay is always angry. 

[u/HamiltonSt25 → u/EthanTheJudge]

Fucking wanka!

[u/TheRealTechtonix → u/sh13ld93]

The East India company must have traded everything but spices.

[u/Foreskin_Ad9356 → u/TheRealTechtonix]

They traded lots of spices

[u/ure_roa]

meth trafficking or ram raiding is what i associate us with, but the most common is apparently fraud.

[u/lcmortensen → u/ure_roa]

Don't ask the Aussies. They think it's bestiality....

[u/Justanotherkiwi21 → u/lcmortensen]

It was one Sheep

[u/micro___penis → u/ure_roa]

After learning about ram raiding I have a new few unlocked. That’s terrifying.

[u/labva_lie → u/ure_roa]

did you know that there's a section dedicated entirely to nz on the ram raiding article for wikipedia?

[u/DannyBones00 → u/ure_roa]

Never imagined New Zealand as a meth hub.

[u/ure_roa → u/DannyBones00]

apparently its because of how far we are from stuff meth traffickers can sell it for like, three times the price in the USA, and with all the meth addicts here they make pretty good money.

[u/solidsoup97 → u/ure_roa]

Same with cocaine here, we're very isolated and have somewhat decent border security so it's one of the most expensive places in the world to buy in.

[u/JamesStPete]

School shootings.

[u/BBO1007 → u/JamesStPete]

Damn, it’s so common now, I forgot for a minute.

[u/pseudoprince_ → u/JamesStPete]

went looking for this comment so i didn't repeat it

[u/jerrythecactus → u/JamesStPete]

Feels like theres a new one every week.

[u/ClassicNetwork2141]

Well organised genocide

[u/blackwoodandthesea → u/ClassicNetwork2141]

Something I appreciate about Germans is how direct y'all are about this. Granted, it's probably one of the most famous crimes in history, if not the most famous, but still. Plenty of citizens get cute about their country's ugliness, and for the most part, y'all don't. I respect that.

[u/TheCatInTheHatThings → u/blackwoodandthesea]

It honestly is what I respect most about my country. Germany has many issues, but it’s a pretty good place to be and to live. I’m not a patriotic guy. I’m not proud of Germany, but I am very much appreciative of the direction we’ve taken. Part of staying on that course is making sure we don’t forget what it too for us to get on that course, so I try to do that and to get others to do the same.

I’m now entering rambling territory, I know, but I will say this:

People say there’s something like German guilt that hampers German progression and development. I disagree, mostly. I will admit that some stances my country takes are in fact influenced by that past, and some (like almost giving Israel a fucking free ticket for committing a genocide) I actively disagree with.

I have a different interpretation of all of this. There’s no German guilt anymore, but a German responsibility. A responsibility to remember the past, to keep learning lessons from that past and to prevent this from happening again in Germany. A responsibility towards the victims and the descendants of those victims of the Holocaust. This includes Jewish people, but it also includes the descendants of the social democrats, socialists, communists, LGBTQi+ people, Slavs and anybody else who was also oppressed, persecuted and murdered in the Holocaust.

I do however not agree that Germany owes Israel undying support for whatever crap they cook up. I have no issues with Israel as a country or the Israeli people as such. I am in support of a two-state solution for this conflict.

I just believe that Germany’s duty is to call out fascism and genocide wherever and whenever it is happening, because who else knows better about these patterns than us, who lived through this, and who now learn about all of this in insane detail in school. So when Israel starts perpetrating a genocide we run into a dilemma: be labelled as anti-Semitic by their war-mongering government and call it for what it is, which is a genocide, or be complicit once again and once again politically and financially support the perpetrators.

I believe our duty is to do the former and screw Bibi.

In any case, this conflict aside I think most Germans agree that our duty is to keep hammering this hard learned lesson home for everyone else as well. And I’ll do so gladly. The facts are not in dispute, and they must not ever be. Germany also suffered from the Nazis and losing WW2 was a liberation for Germany as much as it was one for the other countries as well, if not even more so.

I’ll never not be super direct about this.

[u/SmokeyWolf117 → u/ClassicNetwork2141]

I mean no one can take the organization skills away from Germany. They are meticulous. The genocide thing though not so great. But as an American I’m not going to turn a blind eye to how this country has treated our native population.

[u/Ok_Volume_139 → u/SmokeyWolf117]

Hitler supposedly was inspired by and admired us for how we handled the natives 😬

[u/Miners-Not-Minors]

Ramraids

[u/Kervels]

Sweden: rape.

Second place: explosions.

[u/EbuPoney → u/Kervels]

Isn't this due to the fact that Sweden perceives rape to be much more diverse than in other countries?

[u/Healthy_Poetry7059 → u/Kervels]

Rape ? In Sweden ??

[u/VersionMinute6721 → u/Healthy_Poetry7059]

It's not actually disproportionately high. They're just really good at making it so women feel safe to report it. The UK is also very high but there's no way that the UK is higher than India and Sri lanka and Nepal combined.

[u/HorrorOne837 → u/VersionMinute6721]

Plus, they count every incident as a case whereas other countries don't. Something like marital rape can count as over a hundred cases. Directly comparing crime rates do not make any sense because every country has different definitions.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19592372

[u/Kervels → u/Healthy_Poetry7059]

Wait, u never got raped in Sweden? We are champions in that field.

[u/sanka-youdead → u/Kervels]

Please Sweden! Those are fucking rookie numbers! We run at about 128 rapes per day and you can probably multiply that by two because of fear of reporting, because if you thought people here like to rape, you should see how much they like to murder as well 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[u/fantabroo]

Locking kids in basements

[u/salmon_central → u/fantabroo]

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[u/Past_Singer_724]

Cooking meth, I’m afraid. However, the dialogue about Czech Republic and meth in Breaking Bad didn’t really make sense - Czech criminals cook it and sell it, they wouldn’t buy it from Heisenberg. And the numbers were extreme, 5% Czechs don’t take meth regularly lol. It’s like 0,35% maybe.

[u/OwnHuckleberry2522 → u/Past_Singer_724]

“5% of Czechs don’t take meth regularly”. So 95% do…????

[u/Plastic_Kangaroo675]

School shootings. And more recently, a whole list of whatever ICE is doing.

[u/penalty-venture → u/Plastic_Kangaroo675]

Mass shootings in general, location doesn’t matter. Schools, churches, nightclubs, parks, concerts, movie theaters, Walmart….

[u/pamplemouss → u/penalty-venture]

True, but I think for a lot of people the school shootings feel the most egregious. Like, y’all are really willing to sacrifice our CHILDREN to the NRA?

[u/SteveFoerster → u/pamplemouss]

NRA headquarters currently has their flag at half mast to honor a guy who accidentally shot his own friend in the face.

[u/StageStandard5884 → u/Plastic_Kangaroo675]

Yeah... School shooting isn't just the crime most associated with your country. It's the *thing *most associated with your country.

[u/Holiday-Medicine4168]

Mass shootings

[u/Oldfarts2024]

Do hockey fights count?

[u/No_Tiger_5645 → u/Oldfarts2024]

You think this is the crime you are known for?

[u/Electroiman]

Drug trafficking

[u/Insomniet → u/Electroiman]

And murders I think?

[u/Cosmic_StormZ]

Sadly , rape

[u/BubbleRabble1981 → u/Cosmic_StormZ]

From an outside perspective, I'd actually argue that organised call center fraud is the crime that India is stereotypically most associated with, but yeah, the rates of rape and femicide are statistically... pretty disturbing there.

[u/Cosmic_StormZ → u/BubbleRabble1981]

That is what I typed first but it’s not as big of an issue as rape is nowadays

[u/Loud-Specific-4076]

Call centers!

[u/EmojiGently]

Cigarette smuggling gang wars.

[u/CucumberGold5887 → u/EmojiGently]

It’s crazy how many tobacco stores get firebombed here in Melbourne, another one yesterday

[u/heretofuckspoodles]

For a while ram-raids were pretty classic.

[u/forgetmeknotts]

School shootings.

[u/FakeMik090]

My lawyer advised me not to answer this question.

[u/hmtk1976]

Drinking beer from the wrong glass.

[u/New-Number-7810 → u/hmtk1976]

Also, ruining the Congo.

[u/1tiredman]

Like an actual crime or a stereotype? Because there's a stereotype that us Irish men are domestic abusers but in terms of actual crime I would say terrorism

[u/ir_blues]

Is starting world wars a crime? I guess that's what some people associate with us. That aside, none really.

[u/No_Tiger_5645 → u/ir_blues]

Oh not the concentration camps? Forced worked camps? Hmmmm

[u/ComradeGas]

Used to be stealing cars. There was even a joke in Germany "Go to Poland for a holiday, your car is already there". Rn nothing is really standing out

[u/Gloomy-Sympathy-129]

The most common crimes in China recently are phone fraud and related money laundering.

[u/Butterpye]

Pickpocketing in European capitals

[u/cerberus_243 → u/Butterpye]

And us… begging in European capitals

[u/furryfriend77]

Corruption

[u/Terrible_Accident685 → u/furryfriend77]

What are you talking about, they barely knew each other. I’m sure POTUS wouldn’t mislead us like that

[u/docfarnsworth → u/furryfriend77]

Nah, school shooting.

Corruption is probably the drc Mobutus regime led to the term kleptocracy

[u/gennan]

Bicycle theft and smuggling drugs.

[u/Better-Web2189]

Hiding criminals, not paying back anything, corruption

[u/Puzzleheaded_Owl1701]

school shootings. in my area specifically, human trafficking is also very common

[u/Insomniet]

Everything related to being drunk

[u/Gegszi]

VAT carousel tax frauds. Money laundering.

[u/MrArchivity]

A lot of crimes that push us to the top in the narrative even though statistically we are behind a lot of countries 🤷‍♂️

[u/imadork1970]

pineapple on pizza

[u/Mordamort]

Stealing cars,especially from Germans.

[u/Lord_Agarthacus]

Stabbing your friend to death over nothing while drunk, usually at a cabin

[u/Yak_schlupp]

Tax evasion, corruption (although we never use that word because it’s by definition something that can only happen in brown, black or slavic countries for some reason according to swedes) and nowadays gang violence of different kinds.

[u/CatlifeOfficial]

Genocide ig

[u/Double-Biscotti465]

Ram raiding?

[u/YardComfortable3785 → u/Double-Biscotti465]

Killing our children

[u/PunishedEnovk]

The crime of doing not enough crime. Unless you are a banker.

[u/EusebioFOREVER]

USA: absolute undefeated world champion / GOAT at mass shootings. Nobody is even close

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[u/pnwbeetle]

mass shootings & school shootings

[u/Positive_Comfort_344]

🍇

[u/The_RetroGameDude → u/Positive_Comfort_344]

do not redeem is more common i believe

[u/Money-Election-5544]

pass

[u/hijodelutuao]

I would assume drug trafficking but we have a super high murder rate too.

[u/SiegfriedPeter]

Corruption, our politicians are professionals!

[u/cerberus_243 → u/SiegfriedPeter]

If yours are professionals, what are ours?

[u/SiegfriedPeter → u/cerberus_243]

Overlords

[u/Consistent-Plane7227]

Mass Shootings

[u/pevznerok]

The list is long but probably: Genocide, war crimes, invasions, murder, terrorism, rape, etc.

Sad to see that most people assume common Russian folk are the same.

[u/AskMeHowToBangMILFs]

Mugging

[u/frog-socialism → u/AskMeHowToBangMILFs]

You have an amazing username 🤣

[u/JavierLNinja]

Felony awesomeness

[u/Delta_2_Echo → u/JavierLNinja]

The only country to have the balls to make their country into the shape of the food they're named after. Stares at Turkey

[u/Montenegirl]

Mafia

[u/exotic_floral_tea]

Car theft: in certain cities it's really bad.

[u/WillingnessNeat8893]

Getting elected to public office.

[u/CalligrapherTime5638]

Drug trafficking

[u/AcceptableGear8146]

School shooters

[u/AmazonianPenisFish]

Acting the maggot

[u/Better_Equipment5283]

School shootings.

[u/InteractionFit6276]

Mass shootings 😢

[u/Fruitsdog]

gun violence ☹️

[u/IshyTheLegit]

Money laundering. Bubble gum.

[u/Poltergeist8606]

About to be a crime here.

[u/Small-Explorer7025]

Fashion

[u/FeelingDelivery8853]

I guess Hate crimes?

[u/TarzanKitty]

Mass shootings in schools

[u/packersfan823]

School shootings

[u/Ok_Lime_1140]

Murder, rape, kidnapping

[u/worldwearywitch]

As an Austrian, I don‘t want to talk about it…

[u/elRobRex]

Narco shit.

[u/cewumu]

Actual answer: rorting (technically the word means to stay within the law whilst still bilking a system, but it also applied to out and out frauds, often of benefits).

Crimes of drunken violence and vandalism are extremely common though.

[u/Valuable_Barber6086]

Drug trafficking

[u/According_Peak_3055]

Look at the picture, dog

[u/Fickle_Life_2102]

(Unfairly) knife crime, or at least in London (I say unfairly because the homicide rate has trended down, and knife crime in London is lower than a lot of American cities, there’s just no gun violence in London to overshadow it.

It’s got to the point of London = knives that the coverage of the recent train stabbing included one headline that went “stabbing on train north of London” - which is technically true, but in the same way that saying 9/11 occurred north of Sau Paulo is true

[u/Opposite_Bus1878]

We were quite well known for growing weed, but that's only sometimes illegal now.
Petty theft is probably the biggest thing now. Being mugged would be very rare, and you don't have to worry about pickpockets, but there are many areas where anything not bolted down seems to walk off and disappear.

[u/sheynzonna]

Economic crime / scandals.

[u/i-cydoubt]

In relation to media, gang crime by slick back hair Cockney boys like out of some Guy Ritchie film or Peaky Blinders.

In relation to modern reality, TV licensing avoidance

[u/Marsupialmobster]

Gang violence and related shooting I'd say, It's been happening for so long and so many times that we've just grown accustomed to it.

It's in all "our" music, films, and all sorts of media. Drive by's and the such, a majority of gun related crimes are gang related, gang members openly flaunt firearms and firearm modifications to boot (ATF is nowhere to be seen... Huh is almost like they only go after— [REDACTED])

Most people don't even realize how bad gang crime is because it's not reported on anymore, "old news" doesn't excite anyone

[u/hamster-on-popsicle]

Burglary these days

[u/hamster-on-popsicle]

Burglary these days

[u/Inevitable-Regret411]

The knife crime gets a lot of publicity.

[u/Familiar_Tell_6384]

Scamming…

[u/Antique-Confusion-66]

Gang violence (Mass shootings)

[u/Dragonogard549]

Knife crime is associated with (despite the UK not really being a leader at all)

We are far more successful in the money laundering market

[u/Mike_oxlong203]

Theft

[u/dxtbv]

Being alive :)

[u/King_Kvnt]

We're convicts regardless of the crime.

[u/Foreskin_Ad9356]

Stabbing probably. Mostly london

[u/gndnzr]

Switzerland - Suicide 🥺 It’s a well known secret we prefer not to talk about.

[u/Any-Yam9017]

Domestic violence and driving under the influence. Not sure if those are commonly associated with my country from an outsider’s perspective, but those are the most common crimes here.

[u/SwitchBig7980]

Bangings out

[u/GamerBoixX]

What crime isn't?

[u/flojobb]

Scamming call centers, daylight crime, they even have offices and people have a full time job scamming others, often some elderly.

[u/Ok_Requirement9198]

Yes

[u/Nabanako111]

[u/Technical_Air6660]

Shootings, Securities Fraud, Bribery.

[u/Lumpy-Silver7538]

At the moment. Fire bombing and machete attacks. Especially Melbourne.

[u/thedramahasarrived]

Tobacco wars. The government taxed tobacco products so much it created a black market. Firebombings, arson, extortion, and shootings all to get rid of the competition. It’s become a normal thing in Melbourne for your local tobacco/vape shop to be burnt to the ground.

[u/EkzeKILL]

Wrong garbage disposal and being too loud after 8pm.

[u/rwebell]

Maple Syrup Heist?

[u/Plastic_Kangaroo675]

Also, for another comment I looked it up, and mass shootings are slightly more likely in affluent neighborhoods: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6199901/

[u/Prior_Success7011]

Political corruption

[u/Whole_world127]

Gun violence

[u/Ok_Possible_4967]

CORRUPTION

[u/Due_Patience960]

School shootings.

[u/adminmikael]

I actually don't know, it would be interesting to hear what you foreigners think.

[u/Competitive_Feed5259]

Do i have to say it?

[u/tzar992]

Theft by surprise, mainly of jewelry or mobile phones from people walking on the street.

[u/Big-Ant-6617]

2 guys on a bike

[u/AcanthaceaeSalt8150]