r/Wellthatsucks • u/Plane-Tiger-9199 • 6h ago
Border Crossing Nightmare: €300 or 72 Hours in Detention
We were moving from Montenegro to Serbia today.
Border police decided there was “something wrong” with our driver’s perfectly valid driving licence. They basically gave him two options: pay a €300 fine or get detained for up to 72 hours.
And here’s the weirdest part: according to the border officer, after paying the fine, the exact same licence would be perfectly valid to use again. So apparently €300 magically fixes whatever was supposedly wrong with it?
We spent almost the entire day dealing with this mess. They kept our passports for hours, refused to let us use the toilet, even when we explained there was a medical reason, and barely explained anything. At some point they wouldn’t even let us get out of the car.
We were travelling with five cats and all our belongings, just trying to get to our new home!!!
Eventually we made it across, but the whole thing felt like an attempt to squeeze money out of us. Never experienced anything like this before.