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Spypåsar
Namn: Rune Tapper.
Ålder: 56.
Yrke: Radiotekniker.
Bor: Kumla.
Samlar på: Spypåsar från olika flygbolag.
Hemsida: www.sicksack.com
Över 1 000 spypåsar från många av världens olika
flygbolag har Rune Tapper samlat genom åren. En något udda
sysselsättning kan tyckas, men sedan starten för knappt tio år
sedan har han haft kontakt med över 100 andra påssamlare. |
– Det är rätt vanligt att folk samlar på flygbolagsgrejer, som
skedar och inplastade Safety on board-instruktioner. En samlare
hörde av sig och frågade om jag hade några flytvästar, men
sådant är jag emot. Det handlar om ren säkerhet, säger Rune
Tapper. Men spypåsar är han galen i ända sedan han utmanades av
en kollega som samlade på Do not disturb-skyltar från hotell han
bevistat på sina resor.
– Jag ville bräcka honom med något mer udda. Och hade då fem
påsar på mitt kontor, som blev startskottet för samlingen. Men
inte förrän jag gjorde en egen hemsida tog det fart ordentligt.
Samlingen fylls på genom att folk skickar påsar, eller
att någon annan samlare vill byta. Eller att bolagen ger ut
speciella samlarkollektioner. Senast var det Virgin Atlantic som
skapade en kollektion påsar i begränsad upplaga.
– Det var 20 olika motiv och jag har alla. Det går att köpa
påsar på nätet också. Upp till 1 000 kronor kan en oanvänd
spypåse gå lös på, men då är den sannolikt från ett bolag som
inte finns längre. Rune Tapper har inte flest spypåsar i
världen. En holländare har 4 000 stycken.
Och om påsarna skulle brinna upp vore det en sorg eller lättnad?
– Visst skulle det på ett sätt vara skönt, för att det är svårt
att överge en samling.
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 Travel+Leisure
Magazine Spring/Summer 2004
GAG PRIZE
It's no sick joke: airline barf bags have become collectibles.
Connoisseurs include a Berkeley technology professor, as well as a
Massachusetts writer whose Web site
www.airsicknessbags.com,
invites people to donate finds and become "patrons of puke". European
and Asian airlines makes their bags graphic-design showpieces - and for
the best, fans have paid up to $220 on eBay. It's the juck factor, of
course, that's cool to kids. Pin your unused bags an a bulletin board to
document your family's travel, or get gutsy and joui the Web brigade.
Swedish engineer (and dad of two) Rune Tapper displays his 615 samples
(eight of them shown here) at
www.sicksack.com. He has yet to secure fad nauseam's holy grail; a
sick sack from the space shuttle - YOSSI LANGER
Check it out here.
The article includes eight scans from my collection. |
And finally, a site which
proves the net really does cover just about every subject under the sun.
Yes, it's
sicksack.com and it's dedicated to
air sickness bags.
 If you thought air sickness
bags were simply functional items you'd be wrong - as the galleries show.
They're collectors' pieces, considered by some as pure art. You'll be
amazed at how much thought has gone into designing some of these bags,
with artists being commissioned to create works of art. See bags used for
dual purposes, such as camera film deposit pouches as well as their
original purpose, and much, much more."
Coverage by the BBC
World TV show
"ClickOnLine" on July 3rd 2003
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 "Allas"
weekly magazine July 18, 2002
"The Hamster of the Week"
is a regular column about people collecting odd things. It is kind of
silly, I don't feel like a hamster and did not ask to be in the column
but they insisted. They sent out a professional photographer and made a
telephone interview for this little clip. They leave the readers
hanging, though, because they did not publish the link to my page! So,
anyway, here it is:
"The HAMSTER of the
Week"
Writer: Eleanor Martinsdotter
Photo: Börje Gustavsson
435 barf bags
Three years ago Rune Tapper,
51, wanted to publish a homepage on the internet. It must be about
something odd and crazy. Otherwise no one will visit. Five barf bags was
lying on his desk as memories from his travels. Odd enough Rune thought.
Since then bags from all over
the world is pouring in. Today he has 435 bags. Rare bags are from now
defunct airlines like Pan Am and old Swedish "Linjeflyg".
And the bag of your dreams?
- From Air Force One, the
American Presidents airplane. |
 Aftonbladet
Sunday March 17, 2002
Rune collects barf
bags
The hobby started as a joke
- now he have 429 bags
- Delta Air
is the best. Aeroflot is the worst. And Monarch Air's the biggest in the
world. This is revealed by Rune Tapper, 51, one of Sweden's most well
known in the travel business most peculiar hobby: to collect barf bags.
When Rune, radio
engineer from Kumla, was setting up his own home site on the internet
three years ago, he was thinking of a subject that would attract
surfers. He did publish pictures of his five barf bags.
- I though this was a totally original idea. But the e-mail start pouring
in, and new bags where coming. There was collectors all over the world.
Now I am caught, he says.
Today his collection contains 429 barf bags. Most of them donations
or trades. But the collecting is not so much about the bags itself but
more about to write something fun about them. Or as Paul Mundy, German
collector, writes: This is what my wife calls "a bunch of stupid jokes
and pictures of paper bags." She's right about the jokes. She's wrong
about the bags: some of them are plastic.
No one collects
barf bags to be rich. Collectors never pay any money for bags, they
swap bag for bag. Despite some airlines are defunct like Pan Am and
Sabena many bags are still in circulation.
As collector items barf bags are among the cheapest things: the
cost is not more than 20 - 40 öre. This means my collection is worth
totally two hundred krona, says Rune Tapper.
Almost every day there
are e-mail with trade proposals. A couple of times a week a bag is
received through the mailbox, sometimes as far as from China, Australia
or Canada. However there is bags that are more rare than others:
Bags before 1970
Druk Air, Bhutan
Air Force One, the US President's plane.
- I'm not sure it exists. But a grey bag with the presidents seal could be
seen in the motion picture "Independence day" Probably specially made
for that picture.
Finally the inevitable question, have you ever used a barf bag yourself?
- Yes, once, when I flow for the first time in my life as a ten years old
kid, from Norrköping to Visby. After that I have not even seen anyone
use a barf bag.
Best: Delta
Airlines, USA
Perfect bag. Plastic coating, flat base, so it can stand by itself.
Closing mechanism with metal wire. Airline logo and instructions in
several languages. |
Worst: Aeroflot,
Russia
Bad paper quality that will not withstand liquid. Bad print. Bottom
not sufficiently
glued together. No instructions, no closing mechanism. |
Beautiful: Air
Afrique, Vest Africa
More art than barf bag. A Yakas mask on front, more pictures on
back. Excellent text in English, German and French. |
Ugly: CSA, Check
Republic
Tasteless repetition of airline logo fully 300 times, blue print on
brown bag. Reminds about what eventually goes in the bag. |
Fun: Microsoft
Handed out as promotion for MS flight simulator game in 1998. |
Big: Monarch Air,
UK
This bag is so big it have to warn children not to put it over their
head. Strange enough a recycling logo - are barf bags recycled? |
Small: Merpati,
Indonesia
Ridiculous small bag, 11 x 16,8 cm. Does Asian people spew smaller
chunks than Europeans? Fold together it can be stored in the ashtray
instead of the seat pocket. |
Flexible: Maersk
Air, Denmark
Squares to play tick-tack-toe. Other bags have other games or "seat
occupied", advertising or you can take the airline meal with you in
the bag! |
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 Sun Daily,
a Hong Kong newspaper, had this feature on 30th April, 2001
My knowledge about the
Chinese language is very close to zero. I have no idea what Sun Dayly
are writing about my site.
English translation:
Sun Daily , Hong Kong
" Crazy Barfbag Collector "
Many guys will collect their favorite, except for stamps, toys, match
box, models, some piss-ass stuff inside aircraft cabin are the nonpareil
for the collectors , Barfbags. One guy at other country, he like collect
Barfbag from every airline in the world, and he share his collection in
the internet.
The owner of the website, Rune, he collected 297 Barfbag from 194
airlines with exertion. You can look through this site for his Barfbag
collection and their information.
You may suspected did he travel with those airlines for collect Barfbags?
Actually, he exchange Barfbags from another collectors in the world, and
the site links to another Barfbag collection website, so you can enjoy
more!
Each Barfbag have different design, most of then painted airline logo,
and some of them printed commerical.
in the Guinness World Records, one Dutch collector professed he
collected over 2000 Barfbag from 470 airlines, he was the maximum
Barfbag collector, really brilliant!
Translation by
GriffinLau, Thanks! |
 Kontakten
28 September, 2000
Website stays clean
There are three ways to get people
to visit a website. You can either include
pornography, mp3 files or something really
strange, at least according to Rune Tapper's
theory. When he constructed his website,
he wasn't attracted by either of the first
two alternatives. Instead, he decided to made a
website about airline vomit bags.
Rune Tapper works as a radio technician
at Ericsson in Kumla. That operation was recently
sold to Telenor, however, and is now known
as Telenor Radio Systems, even though the company
works exclusively on Ericsson products.
He sounds almost a little embarrassed when
Contact calls him up. It wasn't really my
intention that there would be so much attention,
but after starting out with a mere five vomit
bags two years ago, "just for fun," Rune Tapper
now has around 200 bags.
"Suddenly e-mail started pouring in from
collectors. I couldn't believe it was true," he
says about how it felt to be contacted by similar-minded people.
How did it really start?
"Well," says Rune contemplatively, "you
want to have a souvenir from your plane trip.
You sit there and see three things: the airline
magazine, the vomit bag and the safety
brochure. The airline magazine is really boring
and you're not allowed to remove the safety
brochure. In Germany, there is a collector who
claims to have 1,500 bags, and sure there are
rarities, just like in stamp collecting.
"Rumor has it that there is a vomit bag from Air
Force One (the American president's plane), but I
have never seen any," says Rune Tapper.
Bags from the former Swedish Linjeflyg
airline are "priceless." Pan Am bags are also
highly valued among the ranks of collectors. One
should perhaps clarify that Rune Tapper collects
unused bags. He has only been forced to use one
once, when he was a child. And his collection
just continues to grow: "My colleagues just shake
their heads, but when they have been out
traveling, they bring me their vomit bags."
Jesper Mothander
jesper.mothander@lme.ericsson.se
http://flytto/barfbag
http://www.ericsson.com/about/publications/kon_con/kontakten/kont15_00/k15_32.shtml |
 Dagens Nyheter
September 17, 2000
The
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