This was filmed Rue Gabriel Perri, near Maison Kouts

This is the most polite behaviour I’ve seen towards people blocking bike paths in Paris

Bike obviously means motorbike duh

What would happen if you knocked over all the unattended bikes on "accident"

I expected more horses in Saint Denis.

I'd be knocking over those motorcycles

I can kind of understand the sitters, but the parked motorcycles are just wrong. (Also they really should have better dedicated places for people to sit, but c'est la vie as they say)

Probably the same thing that would happen if you did it by accident.

I think I would light the dude sitting in a chair in the bike lane on fire. What kind of scumbag does that?

I'd love to get a group together, and go along just throwing scooters out of the path and into the road.

And the guy in the chair too.

You've been downvoted, but you are correct. Saying 'on accident' is jarring and meaningless.

The people who say it are like the idiots who say they 'could care less'.
And they can, FUCK. OFF.

My guess is he's getting downvoted for the snark, not for the factual content. English isn't most people's native language.

True, but I'm fairly sure "on accident" doesn't come from non-native speakers.

That's maybe a bridge too far for me but I might yell at them.

Sheesh, should take a slice from the Dutch and start ramming people tbh

This isn't mildly infuriating. It's just regular infuriating

Or from Indian police men and start slapping them with sticks.

This must be quite a more tolerant region of friends because the the 2 French people I know would have immediately resorted to violence. Totally valid as well.

Can't they hang out in the street or something?

Complete opposite here. I understand the parking, that's just standard asshole Behavior. That I get. I'm used to it. The sitting is just fucking bizarre. Why? Just why? They brought a chair for fucks sake. Out into the street. They passed the wide open sidewalk while carrying their chair. It makes no sense.

OP is showing incredible restraint here not to just kick those parked scooters over.

Give them a squirt from your water bottle.

A friendship ended over something this petty

A friend and I were sitting on the curb, legs stretched out over the bike lane. I saw a bike coming and I picked up our bag and got up. He didn't move and got mad at me for doing that "without warning" right before the cyclist rode between us (that was the only path they had). Ex-friend then turned their ire towards the cyclist calling them rude and whatnot. Fortunately the cyclist kept riding. I was finally able to tell them the bike is why I moved. And dude just tried to justify they could sit there if we had just curled our legs, saying there was enough room for the bike to pass. Bro. The entire lane is for the bike. We were just taking advantage of the fact there were no bikes around when we sat down. I had thought he would have the same response I had when the cyclist came. Apparently not and he ranted about it the whole way home. I blocked him when he drove off.

ETA: he was problematic before that and the weed wasn't worth it

I would have yelled them to F Off or use the bell aggressively.

OP should devote a day off to doing hourly sweeps while getting belligerent about it.

I wonder how hard it would be to mount a truck's airhorn on a bike.

That wouldn't work on the bikes that have been left unattended, though, hence the kicking.

Every so often they need to send down a golf cart with a cow catcher on it

It does if you consider they are clearly doing it on purpose: the message is that they own the place and will sit wherever they want.

I know it’s incorrect to say “on accident”, but sometimes I do anyway, just to be wrong by purpose.

I did that shit by "purpose"

France is a tad crazy about driving and parking, or at least it was when I was there last. It's kinda like NYC but no rules. I saw a bakery delivery truck back up to corner and back into the lead car, ramming over and over until the next 5 cars where pushed into eachother and he could park in the corner spot.

Cars all over the sidewalks and in the median toward the tower. Noone giving right of way, you had to just take it or you'd never get in.

TIL hell exists, and it's called France.

You ok bro?

Where I live, they wouldn't be there long after the first 30 kg e-bike plows into them at 40 mi/hr.

Wow, this is awful.

I’ve ridden bikes in many cities (London, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Seville), never saw anything close to this bad.

How standard is this in Saint Denis?

train horn time

Beautiful country, good food, strong on protests. The car situation is a bit strange. The service industry was a bit off-putting, but I was a tourist and well, most US tourists are awful. Maybe half the people there were nice and helpful.

You could probably get a ton of mileage out of an aerosol air horn, if those are available in your area.

Years ago I did have an air-powered horn for my bike that you could pump up with a regular bike pump. It was pretty loud. The thing with bike horns, though, is that the times you'd want to use them are also the times when you need to be grabbing both brakes. I find just shouting works as well.

When I was in Paris some years ago, I was amazed how anti-foreigners it felt when it is easily top 5 international tourist destinations in the world. No public bathrooms anywhere, do the French never need to go?!

I went to the louvre and wanted to buy the 3DS museum guide software. I looked for it in the gift shop, it was available in one or two languages but not English. When I asked, the seller laughed at me like I'm an idiot, "oh we haven't had English copies of it in months! what did you expect?"

What did you think I expected? I expected the most famous museum in the world to keep stocking something which is clearly selling out frequently!

The whole city felt like it didn't want tourists there. It was such a strange feeling.

I think a squirt of somethong else would be more effective wink wink

Good riddance.

As a born and raised parisian, public bathrooms was an issue to us too. Lot of right wingers where against because drugs addicts use them, apparently it was better to see peoples urinate in publics gardens.

Finally the city council started building new sanisettes https://www.paris.fr/pages/les-toilettes-publiques-a-paris-27216

There are very nice if you have a penis otherwise god bless you if you need to sit on this. The propreté de Paris clean them twice a day but we are french, we love to turn things dirty… Still better than the public garden.

I am sorry you had a bad experience I have family that visit almost every years and it is luck related, most of them have meet very nice peoples but I know we can be jerks…

French people seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely not French.

In their defence, though, they also seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely French.

Maybe it's not much of a defence, now that I think about it.

om ok with the sitters if they GTF up and step back when a cyclist comes along i. e pay attention.

fuck the parked scoots.

Hmmm. Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. So maybe there's a need for a bike horn that's super loud and that you can trigger with a finger while you're braking.

Thanks. Honestly the people weren't the problem, it was moreso the way the city was managed and regulated. Again, it is in the top 5 (potentially top 1) tourist destinations in the world, you'd think the city would make it a priority to make tourists feel welcome from the infrastructure up. Again, pubic toilets alone can be the first and last straw. Every tourists needs to go at some point, it should not be a pain point.

Maybe I had inflated expectations, I don't know. I'm not much into traveling anyway, I was with family and enjoyed my time with them, but everywhere we went felt surprisingly less welcoming than I expected. Except Disneyland, but that's neither here nor there :P

It has been long enough that I don't trust my memory on this, but I think it was really common to have no English signage anywhere...? This is not the Parisian people's fault, this is the fault of business owners bafflingly choosing to alienate tourists, and the city regulators not caring either. In any other city I'd accept it, local businesses might not want the tourist traffic for plenty of good reasons, but this is freaking Paris!