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   From: XtremeTwonky@comcast.net   
      
   "hagman" wrote in message   
   news:1167858175.766626.61280@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > HVAC schrieb:   
   >   
   >> BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A 21-year-old German tourist, Charles   
   >> Bohne, who wanted to visit his boyfriend 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, Charles Bohne   
   >> left Nazi Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.   
   >>   
   >> Instead of arriving "down under", Bohne 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," Bohne told the Bild   
   >> newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the   
   >> United States."   
   >>   
   >> Bohne'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 the Nazi   
   >> realize his mistake.   
   >>   
   >> The witless tourist, who had only a thin jacket and swatstika 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 told Reuters.   
   >   
   > A German Nazi with first name Charles??   
      
   Good one......!   
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