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Daily Mail
28-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mail
American tourist exposes what he hated about Australia
An American tourist has let loose at Aussies and revealed what he disliked most about his time down under. Russell Richardson, a marketing expert known as Russ Flips Whips online, is regarded as one of the most famous car salesmen in the world. He started out making videos for a local dealership in the US, with his marketing skills and engaging content quickly earning him 750,000 followers on social media. Currently holidaying in Australia, Mr Richardson recently posted a video sharing the three things he loved and disliked most about the country. One major gripe? Speed cameras - or as he calls them, 'speed traps'. 'You guys have speed traps on like every road, every corner, every highway, every hundred feet,' he said. 'If I lived out here I would get a speeding ticket every day, it's unreal how many cameras and signs I saw for speed traps. 'All the locals were telling me "yeah it's a problem, they have so many speed traps". I didn't know that for the first week so I might be getting some speeding tickets.' But what shocked him most was how often strangers approached him to criticise the United States - especially its politics. 'The thing I hated most about being in Australia was, believe it or not, there was a group of men that I met in every part of the country, 55 to 70 years old, that would recognise my accent and come up and ask me if I'm American,' he said. 'I'd say "yes" then they would go on this rant about how terrible America is and how terrible Trump is and how terrible our politics are and how our country's just gone to crap and I probably hate where I live. 'I'm sorry, I don't care who you voted for, whether it's Biden or Trump or any other politician who was in office at the time of my stay here in Australia, I'm always going to defend my country. 'I'm on vacation guys, why would these people come up to me and talk about politics, I would never do that. 'I didn't speak to one person here about their politics. I don't know about them and I don't care about them so I was really blown away when this happened to me more than 10 times.' Mr Richardson said America was 'the greatest place to live' and that Aussies should keep their opinions of his country's politics to themselves. 'The more I travel the more I realise how great our country is. It's not to say that Australia is not a great country, but I'm proud of where I live,' he said. The other downside for him was the food, which he said wasn't up to American standards, with the exception of chicken salt. 'There's a reason people are overweight in America, it's because our food is better,' he said. Still, Mr Richardson had plenty of praise for Australia. He said he loved the people, the scenery, and the chance to drive different cars which were not available in the United States - such as the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux.
Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Automotive
- Daily Mail
American reveals the wildest thing about Aussie petrol stations
An American visiting Australia has gone viral after expressing his shock at how people fill up their cars at petrol stations Down Under, without paying first. Russell Richardson, a marketing expert known as Russ Flips Whips online, is regarded as one of the most famous car salesmen in the world. He started out making videos for a local dealership in the US, with his marketing skills and engaging content quickly earning him 750,000 followers on TikTok. Currently in Australia, Richardson made a video sharing his surprise at what he discovered when trying to fuel up at a local petrol station. 'I walked into the servo and asked the staff member, "How do I pay?"' he said. To his surprise, the attendant told him to simply go outside, fill up his car, and come back in to pay afterward inside the store. 'You are trusting people to fill up their car and come in and pay, like an honour system,' he said, clearly astonished. 'I am blown away that the people of Australia do not steal gas.' He went on to say that if the same system was implemented in the US, it would likely lead to chaos. 'People in America would steal petrol left, right, and centre if we had a system like this,' he said. 'I asked the guy working there, "Have you ever seen someone steal gas?" and he said, "Not that I reckon". What's going wrong with us in America that we can't adopt simple, trust-based concepts like this?' Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Richardson explained how fuel payments typically work back home. 'In the US, you either pay at the pump with a credit card before fueling, or you go inside and prepay - something like, '$40 on pump five. The idea of filling up first and then paying is completely foreign to me,' he said. 'It really highlighted how much more trusting Australians are of their citizens—definitely more so than in the US.' Another striking difference, he noted, was driving in Australia versus the US. 'Driving on the other side of the road takes some getting used to,' he said.
