Are the homeless in Luxemburg as dangerous as the ones in the US? Because, to be frank, I feel that violent people are just more common in the US. I've never seen the homeless become violent in Germany, and I've been walking past them countless times at train stations. The homeless here beg, of course, and cower in the corner, are making…
Are the homeless in Luxemburg as dangerous as the ones in the US? Because, to be frank, I feel that violent people are just more common in the US. I've never seen the homeless become violent in Germany, and I've been walking past them countless times at train stations. The homeless here beg, of course, and cower in the corner, are making everyone uncomfortable but never got violent that I had witnessed.
Violence is of course relative. I’m 100 kilos and really strong, so most don’t pick fights with me. Were I woman or older, I’d be a lot more afraid.
I’ve seen some really aggressive behavior in Europe. The worst train station in my experience is Paris Montparnasse, where homeless people have actually pulled the ear buds out of my ears to demand money from me. In Hamburg though, a former partner got assaulted by a homeless man right next to me in the train station: the man grabbed his hiking pack (while he was still wearing it) and tried to wrest it off him. Instead pulled them both to the ground, my partner on top of him.
So, I don’t know. Desperation is the same everywhere, I think.
I was visiting Frankfurt a couple of years ago and harassed frequently and even followed several times during my stay. I ducked into a laundromat to try to get rid of one man and the poor laundromat owner had to deal with him to help me slip away. I found Frankfurt to be equally as bad as many cities I lived in in the US.
Are the homeless in Luxemburg as dangerous as the ones in the US? Because, to be frank, I feel that violent people are just more common in the US. I've never seen the homeless become violent in Germany, and I've been walking past them countless times at train stations. The homeless here beg, of course, and cower in the corner, are making everyone uncomfortable but never got violent that I had witnessed.
Violence is of course relative. I’m 100 kilos and really strong, so most don’t pick fights with me. Were I woman or older, I’d be a lot more afraid.
I’ve seen some really aggressive behavior in Europe. The worst train station in my experience is Paris Montparnasse, where homeless people have actually pulled the ear buds out of my ears to demand money from me. In Hamburg though, a former partner got assaulted by a homeless man right next to me in the train station: the man grabbed his hiking pack (while he was still wearing it) and tried to wrest it off him. Instead pulled them both to the ground, my partner on top of him.
So, I don’t know. Desperation is the same everywhere, I think.
I was visiting Frankfurt a couple of years ago and harassed frequently and even followed several times during my stay. I ducked into a laundromat to try to get rid of one man and the poor laundromat owner had to deal with him to help me slip away. I found Frankfurt to be equally as bad as many cities I lived in in the US.