The farmer thinks he taught the Russian a lesson. The Russian believes he created a dangerous situation. Police warn against taking the law into one’s own hands.
On the night of Saturday, the Russebus Nattbuzzen in Sandnes had an unpleasant encounter with a frustrated farmer on his way home around three o’clock in the morning.
The Russian gang told VG that they had turned down the volume on the music. Suddenly they see a tractor in front of them on the road.
– We see a tractor coming on the road and don’t understand anything, then he backs up straight towards us. He stops abruptly right in front of the bus, says one of the women to VG.
VG has seen photos of the signs on the tractor being taped over. The tractor has a large rock on the back of the fork and stands directly in front of the bus.
– I thought he was going to crush the whole front. It was very uncomfortable, she says.
– Did you get scared?
– Yes, very much, she says.
The Russian gang believes that the farmer created a dangerous situation and wants to report him after the situation that arose a few kilometers east of Sandnes.
– We explained that we just wanted to go home. We had turned down the sound and wanted to pass by. He just laughed at us. We ended up having to back up.
The police are warning
Operations manager Olaug Bjørnsen at the police in South-West confirms that they received complaints about loud music from Russian buses from a nearby car park on the night of Saturday. They have not received a report about the tractor confrontation.
– The Russian buses have to accept that it is a night train. It is possible to understand some of the despair, but people must not take the law into their own hands, she warns.
She does not want to enter into a discussion about the Russians’ behavior and recalls that it has only been a short time since the Russian baptism in Sandnes.
– It is not unusual for us to receive messages from the well-known places where they stand. The Russians have no place to be and they are moved when we get complaints, she says on a general basis.
– Had enough
The farmer admits to VG that he closed the road to end noise from the Russians. He says that he asked the Russian to call the police, but believes that he is not the one who would have been shut up.
– I closed the road, plain and simple. I had enough, says the farmer to VG.
– But isn’t that a bit violent? The Russian says they got scared?
– Yes, that was a bit of the point. Now they have learned a lesson, he says.
He says that the buses drive past the village at the time with a loud noise that wakes up both people and animals. Then they return the same way in four hours, according to the farmer.
– We are fed up after five or six years of sleepless nights, week after week, month after month. Now the noise lasts for eight weeks and the police are powerless, he tells VG.
He says that the police’s fight against Russian riots is like a fight between the cat and the mouse, where the mouse always wins.
– The sound carries so far inside the fir barn. The Russian sits inside the bus, blissfully unaware of how far that sub sound goes, he says.
He says that there can be ten to fifteen buses that drive by during an evening. He says that someone in the village sprayed a gang of Russians with cow dung last year, but says that it wasn’t him who did it.
– Do you think what you did is working?
– I think it works very little. The group that came yesterday, I think have learned. Unfortunately, there are several groups that have to be yanked down, he says.
Laughing at the townspeople
The farmer says he taped over the registration number on the tractor to remain anonymous.
– But is what you did okay?
– They scare me too. We have nightmares, the cows jump over the fences in terror. It also goes beyond the game and the birds. It is breeding time and estrus, and they are disturbed, he says.
He says he understands there is a new breed of Russians, but says they have to deal with the same noise every year.
– I read last week that they complained about noise in Mekjarvik and got a hint of “haha”. Now the townspeople get to experience the madness even with their own children, he says.
– Do you want to do this again or have you been told off properly now?
– No, I will stop them every night. They just have to come and I’ll come with the tractor. The fertilizer spreaders are also ready. It’s not just me. It’s the whole village, he says.
– Dangerous
The women on the Russian bus say they understand that the noise is difficult for the local population, but think the farmer went too far.
– I understand that the Russians make noise and that it is stupid for those who live in those areas, but not everyone is so reckless. Our driver always turns down the volume in densely built-up areas. We cannot take responsibility for the fact that everyone does not do it and it would be too stupid to single everyone out, says one of them to VG.
– We explain in a very calm way that we want to go home, she says and adds:
– He had tape over his sign. He knew he was doing something wrong. It is stupid to expose people to a dangerous situation. It is one thing if there is damage to the bus, but there can be damage to people as well, she says.
