Originally Posted by
bbtrvl
The truly lazy thing would have been to assume that anyone (especially US citizen) with that many visa stamps is not overstaying and just stamp the exit, but FRA agents are probably too stringent to go there.
FRA agents look at the stamps in my passports and often just give up, including giving up on the assumption that "with that many visa stamps" I'm not overstaying and then "just stamp the exit". I've heard them say as much a few times.