Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein - Good thing the didn't try to invade Belgium! (which still doesn't exist) by FutureMrsFIllion

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Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein - Good thing the didn't try to invade Belgium! (which still doesn't exist)

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Friday, March 2, 2007 8:13 AM

I am not sure WHERE they would have ended up. In a black hole I am sure!

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.

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Friday, March 2, 2007 8:37 AM

CALLMESERENITY

Ha ha!!

That is very funny.

Oops, sorry! We accidentally invaded your country! No hard feelings?

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Friday, March 2, 2007 8:45 AM

PENGUIN

"Accidentally"...right...they're just doing reconnaissance.

They're tired of being neutral!

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Friday, March 2, 2007 9:02 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM

In an unprecedented counter-attack by citizens of Liechtenstein, 12 members of the elite Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs (PPÖ; Austrian Boy Scouts and Girl Guides the largest Scouting and Guiding organization in Austria) meandered across the border near Davos Switzerland demanding chocolate and watch repair.
Below is the original dispatch from Huff post.

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.

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Friday, March 2, 2007 10:11 AM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

Wait - Liechtenstein is an actual country? We never learned about in any geography classes...

(I thought they made it up for A Knight's Tale.)

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Friday, March 2, 2007 10:18 AM

PENGUIN

I think it's somewhere near Jersey...

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Friday, March 2, 2007 11:54 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM

whoa cool dude... Liechtenstein has HBO....

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Friday, March 2, 2007 2:18 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
I think it's somewhere near Jersey...

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

Tis true! All roads lead to Jersey because all of the Phatom states only exist on a back lot somewhere off the Jersey turnpike.

I think it is run by some guy named J. Hoffa.

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Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:15 PM

WRATCHIT

It is a landlocked country adjacent to Gelderland.

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