{"id":2099,"date":"2025-07-08T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:52:25","slug":"how-to-behave-abroad-and-avoid-trouble-an-important-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/how-to-behave-abroad-and-avoid-trouble-an-important-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"How to behave abroad and avoid trouble. An important lesson."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the age restriction of the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to behave abroad and avoid trouble. An important lesson.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6FIbF-B9Kdk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video is mildly interesting and violence videos are a dime a dozen but the interesting comment is from a discussion board:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The guy is not a native Czech speaker and Czechs are known for not helping if they see someone getting attacked. A lot of it is because if you intervene, they both turn against you. On top of that, you get dragged through the court system for using force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This tells you a lot of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rule #1: If you get robbed abroad, do not resist. Your money, your passport, your computer can be replaced. Your life can&#8217;t be. Don&#8217;t risk it.<\/p>\n<p>Rule #2: While the video did not show a robbery, be careful to intervene if you observe a robbery abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you a simple example from S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. A man gets robbed on the street by another guy. A random passerby steps in to help. What wasn\u2019t obvious is that a third man, waiting nearby on a motorcycle, was also involved. He pulls out a gun, shoots the Good Samaritan, grabs his partner, and the two disappear into the night.<\/p>\n<p>Travel with caution. Honor rule #1, consider honoring rule #2. When travelling, I personally avoid people that brag about &#8220;what they would do if they ever get robbed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is your backup plan? <a href=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/contact-us\/\">Talk to us.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the age restriction of the video: The video is mildly interesting and violence videos are a dime a dozen but the interesting comment is from a discussion board: The guy is not a native Czech speaker and Czechs are known for not helping if they see someone getting attacked. A lot of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup-plan","category-travel-impressions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}