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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new? [/quote]

For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour.  Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian.  And so on…[/quote]

Americans do have a terrible reputation as tourists. And yes, so do Chinese and others. We understand that. What makes this story interesting is that the offender is a local. I presume that is why OP posted it ---- because we all know a DC douchebag like this

"The [b]finance company manager in Washington D.C., Brett Douglas Reck, a[/b]ppeared in the Nelson District Court this morning, delaying his planned return flight to the US to admit a charge of dangerous driving in relation to Friday night’s crash."[/quote]

As an experienced traveller and a long term expat, it's Americans who obsess the most about bad American tourists. The concept of Europeans/Asians/whatever muttering about horrible American tourists lives more in the mind of certain Americans than in reality. Trust me when I say bad tourists come in all form and shape. Americans are pretty decent tourists and typically highly preferred for generosity and sociability. A lot of has to do with that it's mainly affluent Americans who travel and you've clearly never encountered working class European tourists or Australian redneck tourists or the Chinese tourist hordes. [/quote]

Did you miss the point or just not read? We all know there are multiple groups to battle it out for worst tourist. Not the point. The story is of not to this crowd bc he’s a Capitol One employee living in Great Falls. Got it? Good[/quote]

OP here. +1. That’s why it’s of interest to this board. Also, he was not behaving badly, but committed a crime. Will be interesting to see what the toxicology report says. If I see an update in the local news, I will post it here. [/quote]

Well, he also behaved badly so it’s both crime and bad behavior 
He was drinking and driving 
He threw a beer can out the window 
He lied about the said beer can
He said he drove on the other side b/c was tired (superiority and exceptionalism)
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