Arnold Schwarzenegger detained at Munich airport over expensive watch

Getting out of the airport quickly? Not on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s watch. 

It took a lot longer for the Terminator star to get to the chopper — or whatever means of transportation he expected to leave in — as he was detained at the Munich airport for three hours on Wednesday after customs flagged a pricey wristwatch that he did not declare. 

A source told PEOPLE that Schwarzenegger was not given the usual form to disclose the valuable watch, which the former California governor planned to include in a charity auction at Dinner & Auction for Environmental Protection at the Stanglwirt hotel in Austria on Jan. 18. Though PEOPLE did not report the specific make of the watch, it’s assumed that it exceeded the maximal value that customs would ignore — 10,000 Euros.

Schwarzenegger ultimately agreed to pre-pay taxes on the item and left with the timepiece in hand, though the process of finalizing the paperwork took much longer than expected, as the same source decried the allegedly clumsy sequence of events at the airport.

“He cooperated at every step even though it was an incompetent shakedown, a total comedy of errors that would make a very funny cop movie," the source continued. "The officers failed to use a credit card machine for an hour until they gave up and brought Arnold to a bank and asked him to withdraw cash from an ATM to pay," they said, adding that "The ATM they brought him to had a limit too low and the bank was closed. When he returned, a new officer brought a new credit card machine that worked."

Given the drama that occurred at customs, we’d be surprised to hear if Schwarzenegger will be back to the Munich airport anytime soon.

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