An American tourist has caused outrage by kicking a suitcase down a long, steep flight of historic steps. Robin Bender can be seen propelling her bag down the stairs in Croatia to the soundtrack of Jess Glynne’s “Hold My Hand,” in a move that enraged locals and quickly went viral. A flurry of incensed social media users who claimed to be Croatian piled on the woman in the video, saying she embodies why locals dislike tourists, and asking her not to return to Croatia. According to The Sun, the creator of the video, Lena Moriarty, defended the woman, who she said was her mother, saying, “The fact that this has gone viral 4x, accumulated 20 million views and ended up on the Croatian news… All because my mom yeeted her suitcase down the steps.” Newsweek reports that the family claimed they had been in a rush to leave their short-term rental, with Moriarty saying, “The amount of steps in Croatia to get to our Airbnb was insanity. So the only reasonable solution we saw while leaving in a rush was to toss our bags down the stairs.”
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