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by **Lance** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:44 pm

CNN wrote:Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out

POSTED: 9:27 a.m. EST, December 29, 2006

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.

Instead of arriving "down under", Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.

"I did wonder but I didn't want to say anything," Gutt told the Bild newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States."

Gutt's airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney -- an oil town of about 5,000 people -- did he realize his mistake.

The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.

"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

by **Мастер** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:07 pm

Remember the guy who was somewhere in California and wanted to go to Oakland, and ended up in Auckland instead?

by **hippietrekx** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:42 pm

Didn't the guy look at flight times and use common sense?

by **Lance** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:51 pm

hippietrekx wrote:Didn't the guy look at flight times and use common sense?

Well, GLPers swear that it's "Common Sense" that proves the existance of Chemtrails (and UFOs, and Bigfoot, and the Power of Crystals, etc.). Maybe that's not such a good barometer.

by **Мастер** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:04 pm

hippietrekx wrote:Didn't the guy look at flight times and use common sense?

Which one - the Sydney fellow, or the Auckland guy?

by **hippietrekx** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:41 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:
hippietrekx wrote:Didn't the guy look at flight times and use common sense?

Which one - the Sydney fellow, or the Auckland guy?

Either, really.

Lance, good point, but uh... I don't think you can have conspiacies with time.

I don't *think*...

--hippie

by **Мастер** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:51 pm

hippietrekx wrote:
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:
hippietrekx wrote:Didn't the guy look at flight times and use common sense?

Which one - the Sydney fellow, or the Auckland guy?

Either, really.

Well, they were two different situations. The Auckland fellow didn't have a ticket, he just got on the wrong plane. . .

by **Arneb** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:58 pm

Careful... if you write "Aukland" into your search when you want to go to Auckland, New Zealand, you might share this poor guy's fate... :D

by **teri tait** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:30 pm

hippietrekx wrote:Lance, good point, but uh... I don't think you can have conspiracies with time.

I don't *think*...

--hippie

Haven't you heard of the Philadelphia Experiment?!? :shock:

Talk about arriving at the wrong time/place/dimension 8)

by **hippietrekx** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:33 am

teri tait wrote:Haven't you heard of the Philadelphia Experiment?!?

Link?

by **Мастер** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:57 am

hippietrekx wrote:
teri tait wrote:Haven't you heard of the Philadelphia Experiment?!?

Link?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/

by **hippietrekx** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:33 pm

Thanks, KOS. I've never heard of that movie. It sounds farfetched, but so are most GLPers.

--hippie

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