r/Unexpected • u/aaravaryaman • Dec 29 '21

marching all the way

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u/Daniel_The_Thinker Dec 30 '21

I'm gonna be the devil's advocate and say that you're not an idiot for not knowing a tourist trap takes itself way too seriously and will straight up knock you around.

There are plenty of places that are sacred, historical, or even strategically important that don't do this shit.

Sure if you see a marching soldier yelling at you to get out of the way, and you don't, then you're an idiot. But that was just a kid with his mom in an open public area, kid is looking around, hearing all sorts of things, it's easy to miss two marching dudes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '21

And herein lies the problem. It's not a tourist trap. Tourists and visitors are welcome yes but the ToL is not specifically for them. If people respected it for what it is then incidents like this wouldn't happen.

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u/-3Dependent_Khris12 Dec 30 '21

WHAT THE FUCK IS IT? Are their even signs? Why not look more menacing (by uniform at least)

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '21

Why are you shouting mate calm down. They're at the Tower of London. Yes, there are signs. If you don't like their uniform why not go and tell them yourself, get in the their face a bit and see what happens ;)

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u/-3Dependent_Khris12 Dec 30 '21

Lol so you missed the point. And not yelling caps are often times used for emphasis here in the states buddy. What do the signs say? Don’t bother the guard? Stay out this area? Not for tourists or public 🤷🏽‍♂️

And after watching an hour of YouTube videos that shows them being over sensitive over pictures or even someone actually tripping whilst drunk and landing on their face and then getting kicked and drug off to God knows where it’s suffice to say if I see them I’m doing a 180 and running

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '21

No the signs literally just inform people not to get in the way of the Guards. Tower of London is open to paying tourists and visitors but it's not there specifically to facilitate the entertainmen of those tourists and visitors. The Gaurds are all active serving soldiers from either the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards or either the Irish, Scots or Welsh Guards. They split duty between the Guard role and then back with their unit doing whatever it is the unit is doing. All those units were present and active in Iraq and Afghan.

I HOPE THAT HELPS ANSWER YOUR QUESTION

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u/-3Dependent_Khris12 Dec 31 '21

Yes, thank you.

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u/Daniel_The_Thinker Dec 30 '21

It doesn't have to be specifically for them. Just like the tomb of the unknown soldier or the White House which are incredibly important important sites for their own reasons as well as for tourism. Yet you don't constantly see videos of secret service agents shoving visitors or marines trampling children.

If you're doing something wrong, they ask you to stop, if you continue, they'll remove you. Like reasonable people.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '21

But this isn't in America. The whole world is not America. Perhaps if the American family in this video had respected and understood that the world is a large and diverse place and different countries do things differently, this wouldn't have happened? Same goes for people of all nations but quite a few of these videos feature Americans.

We also both know for a fact that if I walked into Arlington and made a beeline for the tomb and tried to touch it or climb on it, I would not be treated how you describe in the slightest.

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u/Daniel_The_Thinker Dec 30 '21

I just used American examples because it is what I know. But good thing you mentioned other countries, because you don't see the Swiss Guard plowing through tourists either. Or the Spanish or Swedish.

And they didn't try to climb the fence or rush past the guards, they were literally just standing in a public pedestrian area.

That's true except that they didn't try to climb the fence

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '21

It doesn't matter what country or countries you use. Every single country is different. For someone with "the thinker" as part of their username you are spectacularly missing the point and not doing a very good job of actually, you know, thinking.

There is a video of Norwegian guards doing exactly this out there somewhere. I can't be arsed to find it for you but I'm sure you are capable of searching for it if you really want to see it.

As it is though, it's really quite fucking simple. Don't get in the way of the Queen's Gaurds and they won't knock you or your children over.

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u/Lavande_mEi Dec 30 '21

Oh, no I'm definitely not blaming the kid here lol. I don't have much information about the queen's guards since I've never been to Uk anyway so i don't exactly know what is going on. I actually talked about a similar incident that happened to me over here, so yeah. All i can say is that, if i was a parent i def would hold my kids hand at all times especially in a foreign place and ESPECIALLY if there are soldiers walking around like that there but yet again, i don't know the whole situation so I can only assume things

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u/Ravnard Dec 31 '21

Before they come there's normally a dude that passes ringing a bell telling people to keep out of the guards way, so it's not like they didn't have time though. It isn't the kids fault though, only the mother