[Plone-conference] Rare exports

[Peter Uittenbroek]

I can't believe this really happened!! Laughed my ass off reading it :D
A story fit for this PloneConf!! :) Laughs, beer and hangovers!
Oh yeah and talks ;)

On 10/15/2012 10:14 PM, 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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