Police mask Shenanigans No#3

It does come in three’s

Greece like elsewhere is now under lockdown & travel restrictions. If you have a Greek phone you must text a reason for your travel e.g. Supermarket, Doctor, Exercise. If you don’t have a phone you must fill out a paper form, select your reason and carry it and your passport with you.

However as a result of the earthquake these restrictions were not to be enforced in Samos presumably to allow for repairs to property and the like. We however happily conformed to the pan Greece rules, fair enough.

Now the story on masks was a different matter. The Government’s own literature was at variance with itself depending on what day it was. Two people in a car if from the same family did not need to wear a mask, and then they did. It was utter confusion.

We were heading down to Pythagorio and cars coming towards us were flashing us. It was the cops in a lay by. Louise was wearing her mask & I wasn’t. We got pulled and fined 300 Euros (150.00 each). I pointed out that Louise was wearing hers so it’s negotiated down to 150.00.

I then point to all the other cars passing – Nobody in any other car was wearing a mask.

So now he is forced to pull another couple of cars.

The first one turns out to be the police captain and his wife…. you can guess – off he goes sanction free.

The next says his wife was returning from hospital and couldn’t breathe – off he goes sanction free.

He now wants us to move on and I refuse until he pulls someone else and fines them, which he does to the next poor guy, who understandably is not happy.

I explain we have the paperwork that says family members do not have to wear masks in cars. He says I need to talk to the Police Captain.

On entering the police station we cannot see the Captain today so return tomorrow, which we did. We are shown into the Captain who says I will look into it come back tomorrow. We return the next day fill out a form and the fine is apparently quashed. All very polite but what a fiasco.

We never saw the police blocks ever again and nobody is wearing masks yet! lol