Obviously tongue in cheek but also largely true. Tourists are targets for all kinds of scams. Less so local crazies. Nobody is actually going to belive an obvi

Obviously tongue in cheek but also largely true. Tourists are targets for all kinds of scams. Less so local crazies. Nobody is actually going to belive an obvious foreigner shouting a crazy phrase in accented local language is actually a local, but they still may steer clear and scam someone else (if this was meant to be taken seriously, it obviously isn't). There's that "real Ghostbusters" cartoon where the street toughs ask Egon what he's doing and he said something about ectoplasm or whatever, and one of the toughs asks the leader why he left him alone and he says 'I don't mess with anyone weirder than me"