There are no border controls between Italy, Austria and Germany (or anywhere else inside the 26 European countries comprising the Schengen Zone), so being stopped by police would have been highly unusual. Of course, there isn't much of a story without omitting that fact. Boy drives car for 2 days?

All the Diaspora communities in the West, the Russians are among the worst. They are greedy and most of their members do not care for their countrymen in need. This is the reason the Russian Diaspora in the U.S. has failed to take active role in intervening tragic situations of Russian orphans adopted in the U.S. The fact is that it is primarily Christian Fundamentalists and Born Again Zionists, and not Russian Diaspora members, are the driving force behind the quest to transfer Russia’s orphans to the U.S. Now, please prove me wrong and list name a single Russia NGOs working in the U.S. that is working to help Russian children return to their homeland or escape from abusing adoptive parents in the U.S. Why have these Russians did not intervene when tens of thousands of adopted Russian children in the U.S. have been placed in concentration boot camp in the state of Montana? I find Russian Diaspora are by far reactionary and driven by narrow self interests. Patriotic Russians stay in their homeland even when the conditions were tough.

I'm sure their are those who will be pleased it was Poland where his trip came to grief........Tomasz?