Terrorized
The people in the US are really a bunch of wimps. The era of the Hedgemony has left huge swaths of the country filled with paranoid xenophobes.
I dealt with the difference between the US and the UK before, but skippy has another wonderful example that discusses the reaction of a British school to the unexplained appearance of a Dalek on the school grounds.
The British school officials were concerned about returning something that they viewed as valuable to its rightful owner. The British police didn’t set their sonic screwdrivers to “disassemble”, but initiated a found property investigation.
I mentioned not long ago that an expensive toy pony appeared on the grounds of a school in Orlando. The Orlando police blew it up.
A survey noted that nearly 99% of British children knew what a Dalek is – an evil device bent on conquering the universe on the Dr Who television series, while most of the world views ponies as non-threatening, but the British are investigating a found property inquiry while the Americans set off explosives.
