[Plone-conference] Rare exports

Tue Oct 16 07:19:48 UTC 2012

LOL!!!! Can't stop laughing!!! Mikko, please do not blame airport 
security for this! I used to travel to Finland every month for five 
years, back in the days that smoking on planes was still allowed and 
drunk behavior was not recognized as a reason to refuse people access to 
a plane. Believe me, those security guys have had more than just some 
issues with Finnish guys with severe hang-overs... :) You may consider 
yourself lucky not to be moved away in an inconvenient and 
'little-too-tight' white shirt with your hands on your back :)

I think we need to setup a kind of Hall-Of-Fame on the Ploneconf website 
for unique and hilarious stories like this, so future generations will 
recognize the terrors and sacrifices Plone developers had to go through 
to build the best CMS (and developer platform :) ever....

Eric

On 15/10/12 22:14, Mikko Ohtamaa 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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