# Matti Nykänen, you are a wanker
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matti-nykanen-you-are-a-wanker/153469
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 7, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matti-nykanen-you-are-a-wanker/153469 "2003-02-07T15:15:42Z")
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### Author:  [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matti-nykanen-you-are-a-wanker/153469/41 "2003-02-12T09:02:46Z")
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> _Originally posted by byter \*
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> When a Finn uses public transportation, he must identify himself to an electronic database._\*
This practice, originally established last year to give YTV (the agency in charge of public transport) more information on the passenger flows of different bus and tram lines, is being discontinued this summer due to the overwhelming protests from public transportation users.
I wouldn’t say the Finns are “unfazed”, but it is true that we seem to feel less threatened by government surveillance than people in other countries.
**manwithaplan** , it was Calgary, in 1988.
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### Author:  [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matti-nykanen-you-are-a-wanker/153469/42 "2003-02-12T22:00:20Z")
Cripes, this guy should move to L.A. He’d be so far under the radar there that the tabloids wouldn’t give a s\*\*t about him.
Plus, he could probably beat the wife-stabbing rap, due to the incompetence of the LAPD.
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