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 Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein |
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Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein
Fri Mar 2, 10:01 PM ET
ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.
According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.
A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.
"We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a problem," Daniel Reist told The Associated Press.
Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.
Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something," he said.
Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller than Washington DC, doesn't have an army.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070303/ap_on_fe_st/mistaken_invasion;_ylt=AoO_qBVKevCWozKpcLbmv53tiBIF |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something," he said. |
I think I'd like to hang out with this guy. |
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OiGirl
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Location: Hoke-y-gun
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Britain invades Spain accidentally, apologises and leaves
Last updated: 18-02-02, 17:55
British Defence chiefs have apologised to Spanish authorities after a detachment of British commandos accidentally "invaded" Spain.
The 20 Royal Marines, based near Arbroath, roared up a beach in their amphibious landing craft and leapt ashore brandishing assault rifles and mortars.
Bemused Spanish fishermen in the town of La Linea de la Concepcion watched as 45 Commando began deploying 'tactically' in the sand.
In the end, two local policemen took it upon themselves to point out to the marines that Gibraltar - the intended target of their seaborne landing exercise - was actually a little further on down the coast. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Let's not forget the time Canada's Rhino party declared war on Belgium.
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# declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons,
# offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montr�al (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this), |
There was also the Canadian/Spain turbot war. That one came closer to being an actual war. There was actually talk the Spaniards would send their aircraft carrier to protect fishing vessels. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Britain invades Spain accidentally, apologises and leaves
Last updated: 18-02-02, 17:55
British Defence chiefs have apologised to Spanish authorities after a detachment of British commandos accidentally "invaded" Spain.
The 20 Royal Marines, based near Arbroath, roared up a beach in their amphibious landing craft and leapt ashore brandishing assault rifles and mortars.
Bemused Spanish fishermen in the town of La Linea de la Concepcion watched as 45 Commando began deploying 'tactically' in the sand.
In the end, two local policemen took it upon themselves to point out to the marines that Gibraltar - the intended target of their seaborne landing exercise - was actually a little further on down the coast. |
Do you remember the joke about this American naval vessel telling a Canadian light house to back off. It saw these lights flashing and kept telling the folks to back off and the light house told them to back off and eventually told them that they're a light house. I hope it was a joke, at least:) Well, I guess the British commandos could get coordinates wrong. It can happen. I have a friend who had an idiot of a lieutenant who gave them the wrong coordinates, and they could have been Swiss cheese, and the friend said "Guys we need to get out of here, I feel we're in the wrong location", and they listened to him and high-tailed it out of there, and they wanted to really beat that lieutenant. Thanks for the light-hearted story otherwise this group would sound like a festival for whining and ego boosting:) |
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