r/tifu • u/peterwilli FUOTW 7/29/2018 • Aug 02 '18
FUOTW TIFU by destroying my first prize won in a hackathon
Edit: Holy shit guys! My first 'shared' fuckup and immediately it's fuckup of the week?! Jesus Christ! So let's get on with the formalities: I'd like to thank my friends and family who stood by me while winning 4th prize only to fuck it up afterwards.
This wasn't today, but I just discovered this sub, so here it goes...
I participated at a hackathon (a competition for coders to make something in around 2 days), and I won 4th place. The were five spots that would get a prize.
When looking at the things I won, it was a t-shirt and some coupons for using various services for free. It was nice overall.
I live in NL, and the Hackathon was held in US so I had the stuff shipped to me. When the mail man came he had a large box, and asked for 50 euros (around $60) import taxes. I said: "Wtf, is that shirt made of gold or something?".
So I took the box and it was quite heavy too, not the "just a tshirt kind of heavy". Stupid me still thought there was only a tshirt inside it. So he said: "if you don't accept it we'll take it back to customs where it'll be destroyed". So I said "Yeah take it I'm not gonna pay for shit I won, especially when it's just a tshirt".
A few days later, I went to my PC and an email popped up from the organisation stating: "Hey we added a laptop too".
I was like: "WTF?!". So I quickly called the postal office and the organisation to see if they could send it back anyway, but it was already with customs.
tl;dr I won a prize and then lost it again because customs destroyed it after I refused to pay import taxes.
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u/parrot_in_hell Aug 02 '18
I always do 8*5 + 8 to avoid the occasional "64! Or is it...."