# My Mom was Trampled by a French Mob **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725 "2019-09-23T20:42:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/21 "2019-09-24T19:59:10Z")
Another Nutella shortage, then? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/22 "2019-09-24T20:34:18Z")
Every time I see “French Mob” in the title, I keep picturing a French organized crime ring. But I’m not sure exactly what a French gangster would look like. Leave the gun, take the baguette. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/23 "2019-09-24T20:50:59Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Another Nutella shortage, then? You know Nutella is Italian, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/24 "2019-09-24T20:56:55Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > But I’m not sure exactly what a French gangster would look like. Like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Jacques_Mesrine.jpg)? Or [this](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/04/17/18/pg-34-france-enemy-1-ap.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/25 "2019-09-24T21:49:19Z")
Glad to hear they got through okay, minor cuts and bruises aside. Hardly worth the pain I’m sure, but at least they came away with an exciting story to tell :). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/26 "2019-09-24T21:49:41Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > France has [Duty to Rescue](https://www.daneurope.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c09228f3-a745-480b-9549-d9fc8bbbd535&groupId=10103) (as do any other countries with a Civil Code). If you see someone in distress and you can assist them, you are required to do so. Pretty sure that law doesn’t extend to putting a band-aid on someone. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/27 "2019-09-25T01:41:26Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > No, it’s part of general culture in multiple European countries. Nothing to do with the medical system. Ok. But if you’re in Paris, and need some bandaging, the general cultural person who is trained to do it and will do it to you, is a the person with 6 or 7 years of university training you buy your bandages from in the small shop labelled ‘Pharmacie’. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/28 "2019-09-25T02:13:36Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > No, it’s part of general culture in multiple European countries. Nothing to do with the medical system. Ok. But if you’re in Paris, and need some bandaging, the general cultural person who is trained to do it and will do it to you, is a the person with 6 or 7 years of university training you buy your bandages from in the small shop labelled ‘Pharmacie’. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/29 "2019-09-25T03:28:02Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > No. > Trust me on this. I was born here and live here. Pharmacies would not, under any circumstances, offer to help you dress a wound. They will advice you on non prescription items, and inform you about prescription medicins. Again: I’ve specifically said that the pharmacist did not act as a pharmacist, but as a person who knew first aid. And I have no idea if that stranger in Sweden happened to be from a different place; could be. I sure overheard quite a few Romance languages when I lived there. > [@Miller](#): > > Pretty sure that law doesn’t extend to putting a band-aid on someone. The law doesn’t: the culture of which that law is merely “take what is already done and put it in writing”, does. And **Melbourne** , it could be anybody who sees you and happens to have first-aid supplies. If all that was needed was antibacterial gel and a band-aid, that’s a large chunk of the female population (we also tend to carry ibuprofen and paracetamol). ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/30 "2019-09-25T03:32:19Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > You know Nutella is Italian, right? 🙂 It was an allusion to a French incident a few years back ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/31 "2019-09-25T03:42:54Z")
Paris residents are either Parisians or Parisites, depending on one’s view of them… ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/32 "2019-09-25T16:42:26Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Jacques_Mesrine.jpg)? > > Or [this](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/04/17/18/pg-34-france-enemy-1-ap.jpg) I always thought [this gangster](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/05/McDonalds_Hamburglar_Close_Up_Shot_Two/lead_720_405.jpg?mod=1533691742) looked French. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/33 "2019-09-25T17:45:15Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Paris residents are either Parisians or Parisites, depending on one’s view of them… And how does slagging the population with a malicious comment aid the discussion? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/34 "2019-09-25T17:47:18Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Jacques_Mesrine.jpg)? > > Or [this](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/04/17/18/pg-34-france-enemy-1-ap.jpg) Or[this](http://frenchculture.org/sites/default/files/styles/max/public/borsalino.jpg?itok=GGz-NmqA)and [this](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/styles/full/public/image/pepe-le-moko-1937-001-jean-gabin-fedora-00n-1cl.jpg?itok=KufVYwir). ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725/35 "2019-09-25T21:58:14Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And how does slagging the population with a malicious comment aid the discussion? Hmmm… > [@Balthisar](#): > > This experience with Parisians jibes with my own, despite the stereotypes. FWIW, I meant the helpers, and not the rioters. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-was-trampled-by-a-french-mob/840725.md?page=1)