The Helsinki Incident was recently cited in the 2004 film "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller. During the final match sportcaster Cotton McKnight (Gary Cole) announces "Let me tell you, a double-fault final-play elimination hasn't occurred since the Helsinki episode of 1919, and I think we all remember how THAT turned out!" The 'incident' refers to a Finnish milk maiden named Oona Maarit Lohtander held captive as a rebel after the Finnish Civil War in 1918. While a prisoner on the fortress island of Suomenlinna in Helsinki she learned that her fiance Jarno Enestam was summarily executed by one of the guards of the camp. Vowing to avenge her lover's death, she arranged for her brother, also captive, to strangle the guard that night after she lured him into her bunkhouse for sex. It was absolutely pitch black in the compound and the bunkhouse, and after entering he approached the bunk where he thought his sister was 'engaging' the prison guard. He efficiently dispatched who he thought was the guard and retreated back to his bunkhouse. It turned out that he visited the wrong bunkhouse and strangled a young pregnant woman who was trying to quietly give birth, thus the reference to "a double-fault final-play elimination". Both Oona and her brother were subsequently executed for their role in the murder.
Helsinki Incident, Dodgeball
by F_Bombardier November 30, 2009
I finally understand what they mean by that, is it Helsinki syndrome, when people are being kidnapped, when they're released, miss their kidnappers.
by Richie Hamster August 1, 2011
An awesome Avant-garde band from Australia, uses a wide array of instruments and produces a wide array of awesome.
Band Members
Cameron Bird
James Cecil
Gus Franklin
Isobel Knowles
Jamie Mildren
Sam Perry
Tara Shackel
Kellie Sutherland
Albums
Fingers Crossed (2003, Trifekta)
In Case We Die (2005, Tailem Bend/Bar-None/Moshi Moshi)
Singles and EPs
Like A Call (2003, Trifekta, out of print)
Kindling (2003, Trifekta, out of print)
Keepsake (2004, Trifekta, out of print)
Do The Whirlwind (2005, Tailem Bend)
Maybe You Can Owe Me/It'5! (2005, Moshi Moshi)
Band Members
Cameron Bird
James Cecil
Gus Franklin
Isobel Knowles
Jamie Mildren
Sam Perry
Tara Shackel
Kellie Sutherland
Albums
Fingers Crossed (2003, Trifekta)
In Case We Die (2005, Tailem Bend/Bar-None/Moshi Moshi)
Singles and EPs
Like A Call (2003, Trifekta, out of print)
Kindling (2003, Trifekta, out of print)
Keepsake (2004, Trifekta, out of print)
Do The Whirlwind (2005, Tailem Bend)
Maybe You Can Owe Me/It'5! (2005, Moshi Moshi)
Can I ride with you
Until the sunset gets all red?
And we'll get chased by the moon
- Architecture In Helsinki lyrics
Until the sunset gets all red?
And we'll get chased by the moon
- Architecture In Helsinki lyrics
by Cheesegod January 26, 2006
Donnie Trump recently flew Air Force One to pleasure his Russian boss, Vlad Putin, with a handjob in Helsinki.
by Uncle Joosie July 22, 2018
by wonderdog4 July 19, 2018
Upon having intercourse, a woman lays on the floor while a man jumps off of the bed, attempting to land his erect penis inside of her.
by The least from the east July 8, 2011
A helsinki suicide is when someone falls asleep outdoors drunken and freezes to death. This usually happens in northern countries during winter. It is a sad but very comfortable way the leave the world of the living.
by SirJoe March 29, 2010