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  • When one of the high society people calls the police on Borat, Borat leaves but because the dinner is over. If he hadn't left, what would the cops have even done aside from ask him to leave? Bringing your poop to a dinner table when you don't know any better (or the people THINK you don't know any better), inviting a prostitute midway through dinner and mistaking a retired person as a retard aren't exactly arrestable offenses and Borat didn't give the people a hard time when he left so they didn't even really need to call the police.
    • Furthermore, what happens when the police arrive and Borat, the reason they were called, is long gone? Do they get cited for wasting the police's time? Do they chastise the people because they called the cops because of a foreigner who doesn't know better?
    • Usually the police are notified beforehand when things like this happen, if What Would You Do is any indication.
    • When someone refuses to leave private property that's called trespassing, and yes, the cops arrest people for it, and no, being called to eject a tresspasser is not considered wasting police time, especially if the trespasser then leaves after police are called. And no, ignorance of the law, real or feigned, does not change the equation. The real question is how SBC's schtick could be real and not kayfabe, as suggested on this site, given some of the stuff he supposedly did without being arrested (e.g. assaulting Pamela Anderson).
  • When Borat finds out that the man who put a rubber fist up his butt is a homosexual, he appears to be disturbed but the rubber fist ends up replacing the amputated arm of a resident of Kuzcek. How did it get to Kazakhstan? It wasn't seen in Borat's suitcase after Azamat ditches him and there's no reason why Azamat would've held onto it because he didn't know that Borat said he would get Doltan a new arm.
  • When Borat is presumably all alone after the infamous naked fight, who was filming him? He said he was all alone but there was obviously someone holding the camera.
    • It looks like the sequel is mostly all under the kayfabe that there isn't a documentary crew following Borat and his daughter around, but we're just seeing them go about their business in context without cameras in-universe; aka just "cinematic" cameras. So either that applies here too with some mixed use of in-universe documentarian cameras (e.g. when Borat uses the camera as a weapon in the nude fight) and cinematic ones, or else there's some hapless cameraman with him who will film him even in destitution and Borat doesn't feel like acknowledging as someone giving him company. I personally would go with the former interpretation.

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