[Plone-conference] Rare exports

Tue Oct 16 09:21:43 UTC 2012

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 <mailto: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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