[Plone-conference] Rare exports

Tue Oct 16 09:32:31 UTC 2012

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 <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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