We Got Pulled Over By The Estonian Military
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2016
- On a bench in Tartu, Estonia, we welcome Paul (@cr3) along with art from Simon (@mushybees) to talk about the Other Incident: the one that involved us getting pulled over by the Estonian Defense Force.
TOM: / tomscottgo -- MATT: / mattgrayyes -- PAUL: / cr3
I love how much tension is released in their faces when Tom tells them they are Estonian, not Russian.
The border guard said "Tervist" that means hello in Estonian and you answered "Tourists" :D Well, you could not have known that :)
I can kind of imagine their dialogue - "Looks like another bunch of tourists driving through Russia for the heck of it" - "OK, give them the usual talk and make sure they don't trigger a diplomatic incident". Thanks for sharing!
The boarder patrol's English was quite decent. I have seen worse in other countries. They just checked passports and gave useful advice in return.
"I don't like filming outside the EU" poor Tom
The soldiers were nothing but polite, by the way: I've blurred their faces because it feels like the right thing to do! (I'm also told that Estonian Defence Force is the formal title, but that was a bit longer for the video title!)
"They're in the boot." not the best time for that sentence.
"We did have to do some bribing in Ukraine." I wouldn't have said that in a youtube video.
I love the nervous casualness of "that would be an act of war". Watching this made me laugh nervously. Good lord.
So um. 5 years later and this aged well.
Military officer: Tervist! (Hello in Estonian)
I love that Matt says at the
"We're not international troublemakers."
Ten seconds of checking Matt and Pauls passports, the remaining time trying to figure out if the age of Tom is accurate...
Oh man, I know that feeling. I had a run in with a policeman in NanChang, China when I returned from a trip to Lu Shan (once a mountain resort for high officials in the Chinese Republic and conference centre for the communists under Mao). He didn't ask for my papers, but he did want to know my name, what I was doing in China, and NanChang in particular, where I was from... turned out he just wanted to practice his English with me...
Seems to me the soldiers were more concerned for your safety regarding the Russian border than anything else.
So that's what three blokes crapping themselves looks like.
3:37
Border guard: Tervist!
Checking documents is actually a normal occurrence in that area. The main problem is smuggling, mainly cheap cigarettes and alcohol from Russia to Estonia. The border patrol also wants to make sure that tourists don't cross the border either by accident or on purpose because once you cross it there is very little the Estonian authorities can do, they don't have legislation in Russia.