Wait a minute ... before we go any further it is time for another confession.
I "kind of" had a "rough sort of idea" that what I had would have likely been taken off me had it been unearthed.
It was a small plastic piece of great New Zealand history and by bringing it in I basically deprived someone of selling me one here.
And this item breached copyright rules as well.
It was the DVD of The World's Fastest Indian and I had come across it in an otherwise unremarkable store in which sold DVDs and CDs and other such things in Suzhou which is a modest rail ride from Shanghai.
I was amazed to find it because it was still only on the cinema screens back here.
Okay, the fine print was all in Chinese but (after smuggling it through the gates of copyright) after sticking it on the player it was all as it was on the big screen.
No subtitles or the like.
So basically it was an illegal copy and I still feel bad about it ... and the other five or six I also brought back.
Time for a confession.
I will never do it again.
But I will watch the film again because it is a terrific tale, terrifically made about a terrific Kiwi.
A legend in innovation and engineering, and of course motorcycling.
Burt Munro left a great mark in both the record books of Bonneville as well as across the famous salt flats ... especially after he spectacularly decked his streamlined V-twin Indian at very high speed.
Now I have fallen from bikes at considerable speed on a couple of "welcome to hospital" occasions but Burt was running at velocities we lads of the open roads could have only dreamed about (or had nightmares about).
A few years ago I was over at Philip Island to watch the Australian Moto GP and one of the chaps with our group had once worked with Burt.
He possessed more grey hair than me and clearly had many a year behind him and didn't get about too much but he would hold us spellbound with his casual tales of how Burt went about creating remarkable mechanical and engineering gems in his humble shed.
I remember when Roger Donaldson was planning to put Burt's life into film and his decision to bring in Anthony Hopkins to play the role.
There were some raised eyebrows and the usual mumbling about how it should have gone the way of a Kiwi actor but at the end of the acting day ... who?
Hopkins is simply superb and yep, he gets the 'Gorrre' inflections of his Kiwi accent spot on.
A Kiwi classic about a Kiwi classic ... and you can watch it legally, and for no cost at all, and no need to declare anything ... on Maori Television this Saturday.
● The World's Fastest Indian, Maori TV at 8.45pm Saturday: It says a lot when the actual manufacturers of a certain motorcycle have to approach some old dude from way down there in Noo Zealand to ask him how on earth he could get it to go that fast.
Like John Britten, Burt Munro was an engineering marvel who did not venture out to purchase parts ... he made them himself.
ON THE BOX
● The Graham Norton Show, TV3 at 8pm Friday: Given the names and faces he encounters every week chat-lad Graham Norton possesses a calmness which is almost eerie.
Take the line-up here. Sir Elton John, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Penelope Cruz and Owen Wilson.
Just having a natter with any one of them would be a tad daunting but old Norts just chuckles and challenges them with whatever thoughts emerge from his effervescent mind. And it works.
The reactions are real and the laughter and occasional gasp of embarrassment just pulls everyone in together. Being able to herd a settee smothered in celebrities is a remarkable achievement.
● Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, TV2 at 5.25pm Saturday: The animated film tales of today are pretty much computer driven affairs, and yeah, they are very good.
But this was hand drawn, picture by picture, and photographed on film picture by picture and it hit the screens in 1937.
That is 80 years ago but it simply does not show.
It is absolute animation brilliance and time has never smudged it. Kids and adults today will watch it in the same way they watched it back then - engrossed and captivated by amazing images.
● Resolve, TV1 at 8.30pm Sunday: Over in Taranaki, back in 1996, a young man by the name of Chris Crean stood up to the local gang and it cost him his life.
He was set to bravely give evidence in court against several of them after a street fight, and they decided to silence him ... on his own doorstep.
This is a tough uncompromising locally made drama about him and his resolve to change things.