I was traveling on a train and there was some commotion going on in the next carriage. I didn’t think much of it at first, but the next stop police got on the train.
Apprently Karen had a dispute with one of the train personel and escalated. The police took some statements right in the seat behind me, so I could listen in and get a picture of what was going on …
Karen had orded a beer in the restaurant carriage and apprently there wasn’t quite enough beer in it. So she complained and the train personel apprently was a bit rude. So she called the police.
The police first wanted to take Karen and her Boyfriend off the train to question them (as the train was about to go over the border where the police juristriction ended), but they refused, saying they paid for the train ticket and want to continue.
So the train had to stay in the station while police interview them on the train.
And that is how an international high-speed train was held up for over an hour, because Karen was missing 100ml of beer.
It’s actually quite complicated and I did “simplify” some things. Like the train was already over the border. It’s the German/Swiss border … but there is actually a German railwaystation in Switzerland. So the train stops in German customs territory (in Switzerland) and you have to go to “border control” to exist the station. It was there that the train was held up.
But I don’t even understand how that works exactly. Like Switzerland is not in the EU but it is part of the Schengenzone, so you have “free movement” … who knows how it works.
So yeah, I “skipped” all that. In the end, the trained needed to be stopped for this important matter to be resovled.
I was traveling on a train and there was some commotion going on in the next carriage. I didn’t think much of it at first, but the next stop police got on the train.
Apprently Karen had a dispute with one of the train personel and escalated. The police took some statements right in the seat behind me, so I could listen in and get a picture of what was going on …
Karen had orded a beer in the restaurant carriage and apprently there wasn’t quite enough beer in it. So she complained and the train personel apprently was a bit rude. So she called the police.
The police first wanted to take Karen and her Boyfriend off the train to question them (as the train was about to go over the border where the police juristriction ended), but they refused, saying they paid for the train ticket and want to continue. So the train had to stay in the station while police interview them on the train.
And that is how an international high-speed train was held up for over an hour, because Karen was missing 100ml of beer.
“We’re about to leave their jurisdiction…”- you
“That’s not how…”
“…. International….”
“Oh… that is how that works…”
It’s actually quite complicated and I did “simplify” some things. Like the train was already over the border. It’s the German/Swiss border … but there is actually a German railwaystation in Switzerland. So the train stops in German customs territory (in Switzerland) and you have to go to “border control” to exist the station. It was there that the train was held up. But I don’t even understand how that works exactly. Like Switzerland is not in the EU but it is part of the Schengenzone, so you have “free movement” … who knows how it works.
So yeah, I “skipped” all that. In the end, the trained needed to be stopped for this important matter to be resovled.