Bukkit

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. create a travelpad with permissions

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
it prompts me to name the travelpad.
instead no text is displayed and a error is generated in the console

What version of the product are you using?
1.8.1

Do you have an error log of what happened?
2012-03-26 11:35:01 [SEVERE] Could not pass event BlockPlaceEvent to TravelPad
org.bukkit.event.EventException
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.java:303)
at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:62)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:459)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.event.CraftEventFactory.callBlockPlaceEvent(CraftEventFactory.java:98)
at net.minecraft.server.ItemBlock.interactWith(ItemBlock.java:71)
at net.minecraft.server.ItemStack.placeItem(ItemStack.java:83)
at net.minecraft.server.ItemInWorldManager.interact(ItemInWorldManager.java:289)
at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:636)
at net.minecraft.server.Packet15Place.handle(SourceFile:39)
at net.minecraft.server.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:229)
at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:113)
at net.minecraft.server.NetworkListenThread.a(NetworkListenThread.java:78)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:554)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:452)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:490)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.h31ix.travelpad.Travelpad.canCreate(Travelpad.java:311)
at net.h31ix.travelpad.TravelPadBlockListener.onBlockPlace(TravelPadBlockListener.java:70)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor111.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.java:301)

Please provide any additional information below.
using bukkit dev 2120