[Plone-conference] Rare exports

[Steve McMahon]

And, now "katana" has joined "pants" as shorthand for having had a
wonderful time at a Plone conference!

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Alexander Pilz <pilz at syslab.com> wrote:

> priceless..:)
>
> On 15 Oct 2012, at 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
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