Originally Posted by
Sjoerd
Do you never break the law? I break some law every day. Finnish people have common sense too. They won't punish a visitor for being one day "too long" in the Schengen zone. To the OP: don't worry and enjoy a day in Helsinki!
If I choose to break the law - say, by exceeing the speed limit - then that's my choice and I have to bear the consequences if I get caught. I may (or may not) choose to drive at 80 mph in a 70 mph speed limit, but I would never advise anybody else to do so, or tell them that they'll be "just fine" because I never got caught myself.
Advising someone, on a public forum, that it's quite all right to break the law and that nobody is going to worry about it and they'll be just fine, is just highly irresponsible.
It only takes ONE Finnish person to take an inflexible approach and stick to the letter of the law and the OP could end up in a lot of trouble.
It's just not worth taking the risk.