Posted December 14, 2016
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I found this amusing.
A friend of mine ordered the book "Gay Men Draw Vaginas" for her (gay) friend as a Christmas present.
She was informed by our customs service that the article had been classified as Dangerous Goods as it contained "Sexual Drawings" (surprise, surprise). The person at customs was, however, willing to clarify the matter to confirm the items classification and requested an invoice for the item from my friend.
Here is the pitch video for kickstarter (pretty amusing, hardly pornographic (a rubics cube being one of the drawings) not that that should matter):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJPNFia6Nzc
My friend sent back an email with the invoice together with some comment along the lines of "what kind of a word do we live in where art is considered a dangerous good".
The response from the person she is dealing with at customs was that the request to reclassify the item had been made and that the customs officer's explanation of "a book of quirky art and expression" with the invoice, should be enough for the good to be reclassified from a Dangerous Good. She also said "I'll be waiting to hear from the Warehouse so that I can update you accordingly. Until then, all we have is faith in humans, their imaginations, and of course Australia's shipping guidelines." Ha ha!
I have seen a fair bit of art over my years. Some of it in fairly well known art galleries. There are lots of vaginas and penises and boobies. I didn't realise that those pictures were actually Dangerous Goods. My life must very much be in danger having spent so many minutes looking at those paintings.
Anyway, this is the kind of crap we have to put up with in Australia. Seeing as we have our video games censored quite frequently, I thought some people here might find this interesting/amusing.
A friend of mine ordered the book "Gay Men Draw Vaginas" for her (gay) friend as a Christmas present.
She was informed by our customs service that the article had been classified as Dangerous Goods as it contained "Sexual Drawings" (surprise, surprise). The person at customs was, however, willing to clarify the matter to confirm the items classification and requested an invoice for the item from my friend.
Here is the pitch video for kickstarter (pretty amusing, hardly pornographic (a rubics cube being one of the drawings) not that that should matter):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJPNFia6Nzc
My friend sent back an email with the invoice together with some comment along the lines of "what kind of a word do we live in where art is considered a dangerous good".
The response from the person she is dealing with at customs was that the request to reclassify the item had been made and that the customs officer's explanation of "a book of quirky art and expression" with the invoice, should be enough for the good to be reclassified from a Dangerous Good. She also said "I'll be waiting to hear from the Warehouse so that I can update you accordingly. Until then, all we have is faith in humans, their imaginations, and of course Australia's shipping guidelines." Ha ha!
I have seen a fair bit of art over my years. Some of it in fairly well known art galleries. There are lots of vaginas and penises and boobies. I didn't realise that those pictures were actually Dangerous Goods. My life must very much be in danger having spent so many minutes looking at those paintings.
Anyway, this is the kind of crap we have to put up with in Australia. Seeing as we have our video games censored quite frequently, I thought some people here might find this interesting/amusing.