[Plone-conference] Rare exports

Martin Aspeli optilude at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 21:23:35 UTC 2012


This is the funniest thing ever. Please post it somewhere more public
so we can share it with the world. I love Plone. :)

On 15 October 2012 22:14, Mikko Ohtamaa <mikko at opensourcehacker.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the great conference! I have never had this super fun - and for
> myself the conference had the end climax it deserved. I had some of the most
> interesting moments of my life today. You were there so it's true story :)
>
> Namely, we went to a pub yesterday after the sprint. There was a "junk
> bingo" where everyone could participate for free and win stuff. Lucky-Franco
> won a vinyl and a drinking game. But I got the main prize, a katana sword
> after trying really hard to beat Franco in the game. A really cool sword,
> which soon ended up being full of Plone related stickers (don't know how
> this happened). I was thinking it makes an awesome souvenir for the
> conference.
>
> ... fast-forward 12 hours to the next and the airport. I was carrying the
> sword wrapped in black plastic bags as I really had to do some improvisation
> how to carry it - it doesn't fit into any luggage. I have imported swords
> before to Finland from Czech so "I know what I am doing". They'll put a
> special sticker on the sword "DANGEROUS" and either let it go in the luggage
> or given it to the cabin crew.
>
> It was almost success. I went to the special items desk and told I have a
> sword to declare in my luggage. I got it approved by KLM (the fee was 55 EUR
> but I thought it's worth it). However they needed the dangerous sticker from
> the airport security. So a military police (or whatever it is its
> equivalent) comes here and check my sword. Still everything going well,
> besides having an epic hangover.... I got even checked in with tickets and
> everything.
>
> But then the police gets somehow confused. Because the sword doesn't fit
> into the luggage, it is a separate item I was carrying around. The police
> makes a radio call and a lot of Dutch discussion ensures with the KLM
> representative. A senior KLM representative comes around. More Dutch
> discussion ensures. In this point I actually miss the chance to reach my
> flight in timely fashion.
>
> Then the police tells me "we need to take your sword and give you a fine".
> In which point I feel the things are not going to end that well anymore...
> the KLM lady asks me do you know what I am accused of. It was something
> along the lines that I was carrying the sword with me when I arrived to the
> airport (basically carrying a weapon) which is against the local law. This
> of course makes some sense as it is not nice for the airport security to
> have hungover Finns carrying ninja tools around. However the police and KLM
> had procedures how things are supposed to be done and we were doing it by
> the book. They have rules to export dangerous items, but those dangerous
> items should not reach the airport in the first place...
>
> So I am taken to fill in a lot of paper forms... and they ask the question
> "How did you end up to the possession of this item?"
>
> ...in which point I quickly think in my head: I am already in some shit. It
> probably doesn't make things better if I tell the truth that on Sunday
> night, after programming 12 hours on in a music hall, me and my Australian,
> US, Brit, Argentina and bunch of other friends from bunch of other countries
> went to a bar where we drank beer called "Hell and Damnation", patched
> something called Templer and played junk bingo.
>
> ... so I told the police "I won it in a competition".
>
> It was awesome conference.
>
> In the end they didn't give me fine. It was little embarrassing for the
> polices too as they apparently wouldn't have wanted to go through the mess
> more than I did, so in some point of the filling paper work they stop doing
> it, just tell me "please forget this little incident and move along." Then I
> got personally escorted by a nice KLM lady to get my flights rebooked (which
> I actually had to pay). Now I am thinking how could I explain this to my
> travel insurance company to get the money back...
>
>
> See you in Ploneconf 2013!
>
> Ps. Rare Exports movie, from Finland:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RQlikX4vvw
>
> --
> Mikko Ohtamaa
> http://opensourcehacker.com
> http://twitter.com/moo9000
>
>
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