[Plone-conference] Rare exports

Tue Oct 16 16:19:21 UTC 2012

I sent a reply with 2 pics, not sure if they came through... if they
didn't, how would be the best way to do share them ?

2012/10/16 Maarten Kling <maarten at fourdigits.nl>:
> This thread is useless without pics \o/
>
> Is there a photo available when having the katana?
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> On 10/16/12 11:21 AM, RebelX wrote:
>
> In front of the fireplace, during Christmas... and then see the Rare Exports
> movie as recommended by Mikko... As we all know, Santa lives in Lapland
> (Finland), but I never imagined he was like this.... scary shit... Now I
> realize why Mikko wanted to bring a sword home.... self-defense....
>
>
> On 16/10/12 11:16, Massimo Azzolini wrote:
>
> what a story!!
> something to tell to the grandchildren in front of the fireplace when we'll
> be old
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM, 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
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